La Petite Romade is easily accessible by air, rail or car.

Flights

We are almost equidistant between La Rochelle and Bordeaux airports. The drive from these airports are fairly straightforward and will take you approx 1 hour.

You can fly to La Rochelle from: Gatwick, Heathrow, Stanstead, Southampton, Birmingham, East Midlands, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Belfast City. www.ryanair.com www.flybe.com
www.ba.com are some of the airlines you could use.

You can fly to Bordeaux from: Gatwick, Heathrow, London City, Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter, Southampton, Birmingham, East Midlands, Humberside, Newcastle, Teeside, Manchester, Leeds/Bradford, Adberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow Inverness, Belfast City, Cork, Dublin and Jersey Airport. www.cheapflights.co.uk provides a range of flight options.

Rail

The Eurostar service can take you to Poitiers or Angouleme, our nearest mainline stations. For further details of go to www.eurostar.com and the French National Railway site, in English at http://www.sncf.com/indexe.htm

Car

If you wish to use your own car, La Petite Romade is about 8 hours drive from Calais (Eurostar and Ferry). There is also the option of putting your car on the overnight motorail service from Calais to Brive and driving to La Petite Romade.

Alternatively, you can chose to cross the channel by ferry to either St. Malo or Caen – the drive to La Petite Romade from there is approx 4 hours.

The following are good journey planners :

http://rp.rac.co.uk/routeplanner

http://www.theaa.com/travelwatch/planner_main.jsp

http://www.viamichelin.com

Directions

La Petite Romade is just outside Saintes, and is just 10 minutes from the Junction 35 of the A10. This is a main motorway which links Paris to Bordeaux, the South of France and Spain – so very useful if you are looking for a relaxing break from your journey to and from Spain and Portugal!

Should you require it, a detailed journey planner can be sent to you when you book your stay with us.