| By air
In season, direct flights to Avignon from:
– Southampton with Flybe (May to September)
– Birmingham with Flybe (May to September)
– Avignon-Provence Airport – www.avignon.aeroport.fr – Tel. 33 (0)4 90 81 51 51
– Marseille-Provence Airport (45 minutes on the A7 motorway or direct train from Vitrolles-Aéroport Marseille to Avignon central station – timetable and booking at www.ter-scnf.com ).
Tel. 33 (0)4 42 14 14 14 – www.marseille.aeroport.fr
– Nîmes Garons Airport (35 minutes on the motorway)
Tel. 33 (0)4 66 70 49 49 – www.aeroport-nimes.fr
By train
TGV: direct to Avignon from:
Paris Gare de Lyon by TGV (2h38)
Roissy Charles de Gaulle Airport by TGV
Lille – Nantes – Rennes – Strasbourg – Nice
Francfort (7h)
Genève (3h) – Bruxelles (5h) – Amsterdam (Thalys in summer)
London with Eurostar (6h).
Madrid (6h30) and Barcelone (3h30)
Two stations in Avignon: the TGV station and the central station
Both stations are connected by a regional train which takes 6mn to reach the other station (35 return journeys per day, between 6am and 10.30pm – the price of a ticket can be included in your train ticket).
By car
Avignon is just:
– 50 min from Aix en Provence
– 1h from Marseilles
– 30 min from Arles
– 2h from Lyon
– 2h from Nice
