Boating activities in France
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Via Mare
With Porto Linea, the most experienced of the operators. Info from Hôtel le Golfe.
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Les Beaux Voyages
Les Beaux Voyages organises a similar set of excursions with almost identical prices. Both companies offer reduced fares for children.
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Strasbourg Fluvial
Boat excursions (70 minutes) with English commentary that take in Petite France and the European institutions are run by Strasbourg Fluvial .
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Excursions Maritimes St-Tropez
Excursions Maritimes St-Tropez runs weekly trips departing from the embarcadère, accessed from Parking du Port, at the Nouveau Port: Caps Camarat, Taillat and Lardier; and Port-Cros and Porquerolles.
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Inter-Îles
Inter-Îles has sailings from Easter to early November to Fort Boyard (adult/child €18.50/11.50), Île d’Aix (€27/17.50) and Île d’Oléron (€27/17.50), plus sailings to Île de Ré (€18.50/11.50) from Easter to September.
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Découvertes Naturelles
Découvertes Naturelles offers the same trips to the Scandola reserve (Wednesday and Thursday) in a glass-bottomed boat and to the Îles Sanguinaires (daily, plus a sunset run on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday) at the same rates.
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La Pouncho
Boat trips around the glamorous Baie des Cannebiers - dubbed the 'Bay of Stars' after the many celebrity villas dotting the coast - are advertised on boards along quai Suffren: La Pouncho runs four or five one-hour trips a day around the bay, March to October.
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Grotte du Sdragonato
Don't leave Bonifacio without taking a boat trip around its extraordinary coastline, where you'll get the best perspective of the town's precarious position on top of the magnificent chalky cliffs. Two itineraries are offered. The first includes the goulet, the calanques (deep rocky inlets; calanche in Corsican), with their clear aquamarine waters, and the magical Grotte du Sdragonato with its gloriously multicoloured sea bed.
A 50-minute tour focuses on the Îles Lavezzi and boats are operated shuttle fashion, so you can linger on the islands. But, if you do, take your own food and drink since you won't find any there. On the way back, the boats pass close to Île Cavallo,…
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