Four Dordogne gîtes, on 250 private acres
If you have made your booking with Chez Nous, they offer pretty good discounted fares with most ferry companies. If using their service you will need your Chez Nous reference - CNO 3955.
For ferry users, Dover to Calais is the cheapest with P&O or Sea France, but for those better placed for Portsmouth, LD lines to Le Havre is significantly cheaper than Brittany Ferries to Caen or Cherbourg.
More and more people choose to fly either to Bordeaux (about 1hr 10mins away from Le Vignaud by car), Bergerac (1hr) and recently Angoulême (50mins).
Although the companies operating the routes have a tendency to chop and change their schedules somewhat the following airlines have offered the following services at sometime in the recent past and therefore probably still do.
| Company | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| British Airways | Gatwick | Bordeaux |
| Easyjet | Bristol | Bordeaux |
| Luton | Bordeaux | |
| Ryan Air | East Midlands | Bergerac |
| Liverpool | Bergerac | |
| Stansted | Bergerac | |
| FlyBe | Exeter | Bergerac |
| Birmingham | Bergerac | |
| Leeds/Bradford | Bergerac | |
| Edinburgh | Bergerac | |
| Southampton | Bergerac & Bordeaux | |
| BMI Baby | Birmingham | Bordeaux |
| Manchester | Bordeaux | |
| Air France | Gatwick | Bordeaux |
| Jet 2 | Leeds Bradford | Bergerac |
SkyScanner is a useful website for checking multiple low-cost carriers at the same time.
If you are hiring a car, it is probably not a good idea to use the company recommended by the airline you opt for unless they are offering a good discount. The reason for this is that the queue at the airline associated hire-car company is enormous, whilst the other companies' desks are virtually deserted.
Even at tiny Bergerac airport, most hire-car companies are represented.