Getting There
By Air
The quickest way to travel, flights take approximately two hours from Ireland or the UK. Skyscanner is a useful site for tracking down cheap tickets but is not always the cheapest.Carcassonne
Only a few kilometres from the villa on the main route towards Carcassonne. Ryanair flies from Charleroi (Brussels) in Belgium, Dublin and Shannon in Ireland and East Midlands, Liverpool John Lennon and Stansted in the UK.Toulouse
Around 50 minutes journey time on the A61, take 'Carcassonne ouest' (23) exit for Caux et Sauzen and the villa. Aer Lingus arrive from Dublin, easyJet fly from Bristol and Gatwick, British Airways also fly from Gatwick, Jet2.com fly from Manchester, Belfast International and Leeds Bradford, with Flybe arriving from Birmingham.Perpignan
80 minutes from the villa, along the coast towards Spain. bmi baby arrive from Manchester, with Flybe from Southampton, Ryanair from Stansted and Air France from Paris Orly Ouest.Montpelier
90 minutes away also on the coast towards Marseille. Ryanair arrive from Stansted and British Airways from Gatwick.By Road
The journey from Calais to Carcassonne is just over 1000km (or 656 miles in old money). If you don't feel like the drive down but would still like to have your own car, the French Motorail offers an overnight service, carrying cars and passengers from Calais to Narbonne and Toulouse. Eurolines also offer a coach service running from a number of cities in the UK and Ireland to Carcassonne.
By Rail
Carcassonne's train station is in La Bastide just over the Canal du Midi on the line from Toulouse to Narbonne. The journey from London take around ten hours with Rail Europe offers the simplest way to book tickets.