Travel Information.
The following links provide various travel alternatives and routes that will help you decide on the best mode, price and travel route to suite your particular needs. Clicking on any of these links will open a separate browser window:
Flights:
In all cases, the major car hire firms are available at both Bergerac and Bordeaux airports. Driving time from Bergerac is about 40 minutes, and from Bordeaux about 2 hours. Please refer to 'Road Directions' further below this page for main directions to the property from these airports.
Ryanair (Stanstead to Bergerac)
Flybe (Southampton to Bergerac, & Bordeaux)
Easyjet (Luton to Bordeaux)
British Airways (Gatwick to Bordeaux)
Ferries:
P&O Ferries (Dover to Calais)
Seafrance (Dover to Calais)
Speedferries (Dover to Boulogne)
Transmanche Ferries (Newhaven to Dieppe)
Eurotunnel:
Eurotunnel (Folkestone to Calais)
Road Directions:
The following sections provide comprehensive route details that should enable you to get to the town of St. Cyprien. Once there, please refer to the 'Local Map & Directions' page for a detailed map and local directions to the property.
Calais (via Paris) to St. Cyprien:
Expect the journey from Calais to St. Cyprien to take about 10 - 11 hours (Calais to Paris about 3 hours, and Paris to St.Cyprien about 6 hours). This is allowing an hour for lunch and three 20 minute stops for a rest, break and fuel. If you can be in Calais by around 10:00 French time, then expect to be arriving at the property around 20:00 that evening. Some people like to stop-off overnight, but others, including ourselves, find it drivable in a day. The directions are as follows.
1. Calais A26 (Direction Paris) to the A1 turn-off.
2. Take A1 (Direction Paris) to just south of Charles de Gaulle Airport (you will pass under some of the runways, so don't be suprised if a plane passes over you on the motorway!).
3. Just past Charles de Gaulle airport (only about 1-2 km) on the A1, take the next exit following ALL signs and directions for Bordeaux (Tip: there is no need to follow road numbers, just the directions for Bordeaux to get you around Paris, but for reference, this will be the A3 initially, the A86, (the A4 briefly), then back onto the A86, then the A6 briefly, which finally leads onto the main A10 heading south out of Paris). This route is what is known as the ‘Outer Peripherique’. There can be one or two hold-ups/bottle-necks on this route, but it is usually nothing too long or too serious, and traffic will normally progress smoothly after a while even if you experience any of these bottlenecks. Don't be 'put-off' by having to drive around Paris, it's not that bad.
4. Once on the A10 heading south (well clear of Paris), you will get to some toll booths. Collect your ticket, pass through, and then start to follow directions for Orleans (still on A10).
5. Near Orleans, take A71 exit (Direction Toulouse/Vierzon) and continue to Vierzon. Leave the A71 at signs for the A20 (direction Toulouse/Limoges) at Vierzon. There will be some toll booths here. Pay your toll fees (from Paris) and pass onto the A20.
6. On the A20 (this is the start at junction 1), follow directions for Toulouse/Limoges. The good thing about the A20 is that it is a non-pay Autoroute all the way down to just before you need to exit at the Souillac turn-off (junction 55).
7. Follow A20 all the way past Chateauroux, Limoges and Brive, and onto Junction 55 the Souillac turn-off. There will be a short Auto-Peage section just before this exit where you take a ticket, and you will have to pay a small charge of about €1.80 at the Souillac exit.
8. From exit 55 (Souillac), come off the motorway and follow signs for Sarlat (Route D703 & D704). It should take about 1 hour from here to get to the property.
9. As you arrive into Sarlat, follow signs and routes (D57, and D703) for directions to Beynac, St. Cyprien, and Bergerac. Once you arrive in St. Cyprien, please refer to 'Local Map & Directions' page in order to get detailed local directions to the property.
Bergerac to St. Cyprien:
This is the nearest airport to the property, and as mentioned before, driving time from the airport is about 40 minutes, basically heading due east following along the river Dordogne in places.
1. Leave the aiport, turning right at the exit road, and continue along to a roundabout. At the roundabout look for and pick-up signs for directions to Sarlat & Lilinde. This will take you onto a bypass around the soth-east of Bergerac, and then onto the D660.
2. Once in the small town of Lilinde, follow 'Tout Directions' (All directions), and signs for Sarlat and Siorac. This will immediately take you across a road bridge over the river Dordogne and onto the D29 and then the D25 to Siorac.
3. At Soirac, follow signs for Sarlat (and also signs for St .Cyprien) on the D703.
4. Soirac to St.Cyprien should only take a 6-7 minutes. If you find youself crossing-over the Dordogne river once more (and immediately arriving in St. Cyprien) then you have gone to far. Instead, just before crossing over the Dordogne river, need to take a right-hand turn signed for Berbiguieres. Please refer to the 'Local Map & Directions' page on this site for detailed directions at this point.
Bordeaux to St. Cyprien (via Bergerac):
The Airport itself lies to the west of Bordeaux, but as you will need to travel east along the Dordogne river, you will have to make use of the A630 Autoroute around the busy city of Bordeaux.
1. It will be best to take the northern A630 autoroute around Bordeaux (following signs initially for the A10 Poitiers/Tours/Paris). You will join the A630 from the airport at either junction 10, 11 or 12.
2. At junction 1 of the A630, look for and pick-up signs for the A89 (Direction Perigueux). This is a new autoroute (ulimately linking-up Bordeaux in the east with Grenoble in the French Alps in the west). This is a toll motorway, and you will join it at junction 1, and collect your autopeage ticket from the booths.
3. Exit at junction 12 on the A89 (and pay your toll), taking the exit signed for D708 (St. Foy and Bergerac), and head due south on the D708.
4. At St. Foy, pick-up and follow signs for D936 to Bergerac. This will take you all the way to just south of Bergerac (near the airport). From here please follow the directions as outlined above in the 'Bergerac to St. Cyprien' route information.
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