Travel Options


When booking your holiday at Le Pas Opton you have the choice of coming by ferry, plane or by car via Eurotunnel crossing.  However, the price of your holiday does include ferry travel on specially selected short crossings. You can choose other routes, including overnight crossings to St Malo and Caen, for an extra charge.
If you want to arrange your own travel we’ll reduce the price of your holiday by £50.
Low cost airlines operate to both Nantes and La Rochelle, where car hire is available.

Driving to Le Pas Opton

At around 3 hours’ drive from St Malo, our nearest Channel port, and only 1 hour from Nantes airport, Le Pas Opton is quickly and easily reached by car. You will find that French roads are a pleasure to drive on – often seeming almost empty – so they won’t cause you to lose much valuable time from your holiday.

If you want to find us using Satnav, Multimap, or other methods, our address is:
Camping Le Pas Opton,
1335 Route du Pas Opton,
85800 LE FENOUILLER
France.
If you'd like to try out a French route planning and map website, we recommend you try Mappy.

The following distances and approximate times will help you choose your channel crossing. From Calais the journey is mainly on autoroutes, helping to speed your travel; the Western ports give good access to toll-free roads and cut out a lot of time spent in your car.

Distance (miles) are in bold and drive times (hours) are in italics.

Calais           450 (9)
Dieppe          350 (6)
Le Havre       290 (5.5)
Caen             235 (4.5)
Cherbourg     250 (5)
St Malo          165 (3.5)
Roscoff          250 (5)
   
A full set of driving directions are provided with your travel pack. You can also download a travel pack.

Please remember to aim to arrive at Le Pas Opton between 4.00pm and 10.00pm – and certainly during daylight hours if you are bringing your own home!

Ferries

Crossing the Channel

There’s a wide choice of channel crossings; whether you like a short crossing followed by a leisurely drive or prefer to sleep on an overnight sailing and take a much shorter drive, we have an option for you. We also offer Eurotunnel travel – or you can choose to fly/drive.

Holidays run Monday-Monday, so the crossings and prices below are for Monday (or Sunday night) sailings. Travel can however be arranged on any day – please ask for options and prices. All times are local – remember that French time is 1 hour ahead of British time. All supplements are for single journeys. Please note that some craft are unable to carry oversize vehicles, trailers, caravans etc.

Please aim to arrive at Le Pas Opton between 4.00pm and 10.00pm in order that we’re ready for you. On your final day, please depart by 10.00am so we can prepare for our next guests. The journey times will help you choose your route.

Many of our customers find the daytime crossing from Portsmouth-Caen ideal, as it has a pleasant drive and sees them arriving at Le Pas Opton around 8.00pm. Alternatively, choosing an overnight crossing allows plenty of time to stop off and explore en route.

If you’d like any help with your travel choices or working out the cost, our Customer Service team are here to help. 01825 748318

We recommend you consider a longer sea crossing with the benefit of a shorter drive in France on toll-free roads, and even the chance to get a good night’s sleep en route.

Our preferred operator on the western channel is Brittany Ferries, the most popular choice of Spring Harvest Holidays guests. Brittany Ferries sail from Portsmouth , Poole and Plymouth to Caen , St Malo, Cherbourg and Roscoff.

Click here to download ferry information

Fly drive

A little over one hour from the UK by air, flying is a serious option for your travel to France. The current competitiveness between airlines means you can take advantage of some keenly priced tickets and hire a car from the airport.

Nantes has the nearest airport – approximately one hour from Le Pas Opton – and is well served by low cost airlines including Ryanair from Stansted, East Midlands, Dublin and Shannon. In high season, British Airways fly to Nantes from Gatwick.

From 20 June 2008 Easyjet will be flying from Gatwick to Nantes airport and car hire can be booked at competitive rates.

La Rochelle comes a close second – less than two hours away – with daily flights by Ryanair (from London Stansted) and FlyBE (from Southampton).

Poitiers and Dinard are also within easy reach and are served by Ryanair, from London Stansted. Rennes, a Flybe destimation, is about two hours away. You may also wish to consider taking a no-frills flight to Paris from a regional UK airport.

We’re not able to book your flights, but they’re easy to get online. There’s a £50 discount too, for those of you making your own travel arrangements.

Check out the airlines’ own websites for schedules, times and prices:

www.britishairways.com
www.airfrance.co.uk
www.ryanair.com
www.flybe.com
www.easyjet.com