Transport in Avignon - Lonely Planet Travel Information

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Bus

The bus station (04 90 82 07 35; blvd St-Roch; information window 10.15am-1pm & 2-6pm Mon-Fri) is in the basement of the building down the ramp to the right as you exit the train station. Tickets are sold on the buses.

Bus services include Aix-en-Provence (€13.90, one hour), Arles (€7.10, 1½ hours), Carpentras (€4.20, 45 minutes), Marseille (€20, 35 minutes), Nîmes (€7.60, 1¼ hours) and Orange (€5.60, 40 minutes). Most lines operate on Sunday at reduced frequency.

Long-haul bus companies Linebus (04 90 85 30 48) and Eurolines (04 90 85 27 60; www.eurolines.com) have offices at the far end of the bus platforms.

Car

Most car-rental agencies, such as Europcar Ibis Bldg (42 blvd St-Roch; 04 90 85 01 40); TGV station (04 32 74 63 40), are either inside the main train station complex or nearby (and well signed).

To reduce traffic within the walls, the city has over 900 free, monitored parking spaces at Parking de L’Ile Piot, served by a free shuttle bus.

Train

Avignon has two train stations: Gare Avignon TGV, 4km southwest in the suburb of Courtine, and central Gare Avignon Centre (42 blvd St-Roch), where local trains to/from Orange (€5, 20 minutes), Arles (€6, 20 minutes) and Nîmes (€7.70, 30 minutes) arrive/depart.

Some TGVs to/from Paris stop at Gare Avignon Centre, but TGV services such as to/from Marseille (€20.90, 30 minutes) and Nice (€47.80, 3¼ hours) only use Gare Avignon TGV.

From early July to early September, there’s a direct Eurostar (www.eurostar.com) service on Saturdays from London (six hours) and Ashford (five hours).

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