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| Making this the main holiday this year & I'm driving down & taking my time about it. Setting off Tuesday & getting to Perpignan on the Thursday. Then either driving over to Montpellier, or if the rumours are correct & the kick-off is moved to 3pm, going on the train.
Hotels on the way down (and back) are between £30 & £50 per night & I'm staying in the Hotel de France in the of Perpignan for 7 nights for a little over £400.
Taking fuel and ferry into account I'll have the thick end of a fortnight's holiday for around £700.
How the Dickens the official packages justify £430 for 3 days is beyond me but if you're prepared to go a bit square eyed staring at a computer for a couple of hours & can read a map & know how far you want between stops then it's worth the initial hassle.
Use a cheap hotel chain like Ibis for the motels & I checked 3 or 4 "review" sites before settling on the hotel in Perpignan.
I'm sure you could get down to Montpellier on the plane & into a cheap B&B for less, but unless you're staying in one place (or simply attending the game) you'll need to hire a car to get around & I found that that worked out just as expensive as taking mine on the ferry & driving down & back (plus not only would you be on the wrong side of the road, you're on the wrong side of the car too).
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| Quote: 22-10 "£450 H/B, flights, accom, transfers etc. Staying in Barcelona
Whereabouts and for how many days?
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| We stayed in an Apart-Hotel in Montpelier last year for a couple of nights on the way to Perpignan. Very cheap and great value. Tram stop outside and bus to the beach round the corner. If anyone is interested I'll post the details.
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| Anybody know if you can pay on the day or is it tics only
if tics only where can you get them from?
may be a late decision to go
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| We've booked a four night trip to Montpellier by train after doing the same last year, which worked really well:
- Return train to London (2 hrs) £30
- Return Eurostar to Paris (2 hrs 20) £69
- Return train Paris-Montpellier (3 hrs 20) 60 euros
We're stopping in a 4-bed apartment in Montpellier - Citadines ApartHotel, central and right next to a tram stop, at £20 per person, per night, on Friday and Saturday, breaking the journey in Paris on the Thursday and Sunday nights to do some sightseeing, that will be about £25 per head each night.
Works out as a really good deal for the length of time we're away, and with the timing of this trip, we've got the added bonus of being able to go to the French Open tennis in Paris. The hotel fees are probably the same now as when we booked, but I'd expect the trains (especially within France) to have gone up since we booked 6 weeks ago.
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