Travelling and Hotels in France - Question
Thursday, January 12, 2006
As you know, we have booked a holiday to St Jean de Monts in the Vendee, France.
We are planning to break up the journey down there and the same on the return journey.
For the return journey, we are travelling all the way back from St Jean de Monts to Calais on the same day, catching the Ferry and staying in a Travelodge Hotel in Ashford Kent. The Hotel is some 20 odd miles from the Ferry Terminal, so it's not too far to go when we get back to the UK before we bed down for the night. The Travelodge is booked and is costing us £45 for the night for all 4 of us.
We do however need to book a hotel for our journey down to St Jean de Monts. Which hotel will very much depend on our chosen route. As much as we would like to take the scenic journey through the Loire Valley, stopping off to see the wonderful French Chateaux, we have to remember that we have 2 children travelling with us (Megan is 7 and not too bad an age to travel, but Holly will still be 1 and doesn't like travelling much at night). Not only that, Maxine will be 6 months pregnant by then, so the easiest route we can take is coming out tops at the moment.
We are thinking of travelling from Calais towards Rouen, then over to Le Havre, Caen, through Rennes, Nantes ending up at St Jean de Monts. This route avoids all the Toll roads and hopefully provides a more scenic route than going on the Toll roads.
Our ferry gets us in to Calais at approximately 17:20. A further 2.5 - 3 hours travelling take us towards Rouen, which is where we are thinking of stoping for the night. This will leave us another 6 hours or so to travel the next day.
I've looked and found a couple of hotel chains that might do us in Rouen (Formula1, Ibis) but am finding it difficult to get 1 room for all 4 of us, as I want to make it as cheap as possible. If we have to have 2 rooms then we have to, but we would all like 1 room.
Does anyone know of or could recommend any good (cheap) hotels in the Rouen area we could book into on the night of 16th May for 1 night for 2 adults and 2 children?
posted by Alan and Maxine @ 8:29 am,
