Hideaway in France - gîtes in the Pyrénées near Carcassonne

How to get to France by ferry

Crossing the channel

The new motorways which are being opened across France have made the journey to the South much much easier than it used to be. We take regular ferry crossings to the UK, and at the legal speeds it usually takes about eleven hours from Calais or St Malo or ten hours from Caen or Le Havre. These times are from the ferry to here at L'Enclos, excluding stops.

It is possible to get here from the ferry without an overnight stop, but this needs the journey to be very carefully planned and we would still recommend an overnight stop around Limoges in most circumstances.

What's the best route from the channel?

For full details of our route, including maps, please download our 'Directions from Calais' on the Travel Directions page.

Ferries across the channel

Ferries can be the cheapest and easiest way for a larger group to travel, and there's no baggage allowance so you can bring (or take home!) as much as you can fit in.

The list below gives the ferry crossings from the UK to France that we are aware of, and we try to update the list once a year. For completely up-to-date information we use the Direct Ferries website.

Last updated Feb 2010

From	To	Ferry Company	Frequency
Cork	Roscoff	Brittany Ferries	1 per week
Dover	Boulogne	LD Lines	4 per week
	Calais	P&O Ferries	Up to 30 crossings a day
		Seafrance	Up to 15 crossings a day
	Dunkirk	Norfolkline	8-10 per day
Folkestone	Calais	Eurotunnel	Up to 40 crossings a day
Harwich	Hook of Holland	Stena line Ferries	3 per day
Hull	Rotterdam	P&O Ferries	1 per day
	Zeebrugge	P&O Ferries	1 per day
Newcastle	Amsterdam	DFDS seaways	1 per days
Newhaven	Dieppe	Transmanche ferries	2-3 per day
Plymouth	Roscoff	Brittany Ferries	1-3 per day
	Santander	Brittany Ferries	1 per week
Poole	Cherbourg	Brittany Ferries	1-3 per day
	St Malo	Condor Ferries	2 per day
Portsmouth	Le Havre	LD Lines	1 per day
	Caen (Ouistreham)	Brittany Ferries	3 per day
	Cherbourg	Condor Ferries	1 per week
		Brittany Ferries	1 per day
	St Malo	Brittany Ferries	1-2 per day
	Bilbao	P&O Ferries	3 per week
Ramsgate	Ostend	Trans Europa ferries	4 per day
Rosslare	Cherbourg	Irish ferries	2-3 per week
		Celtic link	3 per week
	Roscoff	Irish ferries	1 per week
Rosyth	Zeebrugge	Norfolkline	3 per week
Weymouth	St Malo	Condor Ferries	1 per day

We also advertise in the 'Chez Nous' catalogue, and they provide a travel booking/advice/insurance service which is available to anyone who stays at L'Enclos. Please ask us for the contact number and reference numbers when booking.