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We are planning a trip to Europe, and 5 of our days will be in the Dordogne region. I know we will need a car to explore this region. We will be taking the train from Paris to somewhere close to the Dordogne where we can rent a car. When we leave the Dordogne region we will be heading to Switzerland, again by train. Can anyone suggest where to pick up/ drop off a rental car?
Rent from AutoEurope. Check their European sites as well as their US ones for best prices. Pick up the car in Brive-la-Gaillarde or Libourne or P rigueux, drop it off before you head into Switzerland or else you'll pay a ginormous extra fee. Sarlat is one of the best bases for a visit to the Dordogne unless you want to stay in a small village, which is also nice.
Yes, Sarlat is a great and central location golf travel packages scotland to explore this area. You can get a train from Paris (Gare d'Austerlitz) to Brive la Gaillarde, pick up a car there and within 30/40 minutes be where you want to be.
They are located in NYC, in the Wall Street area (I too am in NYC). I have rented a Citreon C3 Diesel with a/c, a manual shift, 3rd party insurance, and unlimited mileage for about $250/wk. They use Citer, which is the European affiliate of National Rent A Car here in the US. There is a pick up point in Brive, which is a TGV stop. You could rent in Brive and within 45 minutes, could be in Sarlat. Furthermore, you can drop off within France at a different locale without additional charges i.e I picked up a car in Avignon and dropped off in Dijon with no worries..
I would amend that to one of the best bases to visit the P rigord noir, not as good for the P rigord vert or the western edges of the P rigord golf travel packages scotland blanc and P rigord pourpre. But all the P rigords are in the Dordogne.
golf travel packages scotland When I am asked where I have my house, I answer "in the Dordogne". golf travel packages scotland If someone knows the Dordogne, I say in the P rigord vert from which I can truly see a small part of the P rigord noir and P rigord golf travel packages scotland blanc.
My goodness! It took a hijacked thread to deal with the issue of why English speakers golf travel packages scotland refer to "the Dordogne" (often pronounced 'dordoyne' like 'bouloyne' on the Channel)and it seems to be "Le Perigord" in various couleurs golf travel packages scotland for the French.
I am also planning a trip to that region (June) and when I went to AutoEurope I put in Sarlat and got a quote picking up from "Sarlat La Caneda Office Le Pontet". Is there a car rental office in Sarlat? Isn't is possible to take the train all the way from Paris to Sarlat? I notice this is not usually suggested so there is probably a reason but I'm wondering why? I see in some trip reports people pick up their cars in Limoges. Is that because train connections to Limoges are better than all the way to Sarlat?
Brive is easy to get to from Paris and often recommended as a good place to pick up a car. I wish we had, but we went to Bordeaux and got our car at the station there. It was a long way to Sarlat. it is a long way from Limoges to Sarlat as well. If I were doing it again, golf travel packages scotland I would do it from Brive, though someone above recommends Perigueaux, which is a very attractive town in itself, one which you may enjoy visiting on its own.
Sarlat does not have a good train connection. Brive-la-Gaillarde is the best to pick up a car rental. Limoges is worthwhile only if one intends to visit Oradour-sur-Glane and/or Hautefort on the way to Sarlat. P rigueux is another possibility, but requires a change of train in Limoges, whereas golf travel packages scotland Brive does not.
isabel, you definitely do not want to pick up a rental car in Sarlat or Limoges for a trip to the Dordogne. You MIGHT want to take a train (NOT a TGV) from Paris-Austerlitz to Limoges, then switch to a Corail line to P rigueux (which I have done many times) - that puts you about 40 kms away from Sarlat, so it's an easy drive, and the car rental outfits are mostly there at the P rigueux station. But getting off at Limoges makes no sense unless, as mentioned, you are planning to visit some of the sites, golf travel packages scotland notably Oradour-sur-Glane between Limoges and the Dordogne.
Sarlat is pretty much useless as far as trains go. Most trains that go there are not passenger trains, and the ones that are require golf travel packages scotland first going to Bordeaux, then getting on a local train that stops in every backyard along the route - slow and takes forever.
What I prefer to do is to take the TGV (usually direct from CDG) to Bordeaux, then connect to the Corail train to P rigueux...but I'm not heading to Sarlat, but rather to my house, which is only about 25 kms from P rigueux. For me to take the train to Brive would mean a lot more driving. Brive would probably be the better option for you, though.
No, it has nothing to do with when "the whole place was English territory." For one thing, it wasn't. South of the Dordogne river was loyal to the English; north was loyal to the Francs (that's why there are opposing castles all along the river), up until 1453, when the whole matter was sorted out once and for all at the Battle of Castillon.
But anyway, the Gallic people who originally inhabited the region were called Petrocores. In 778, emperor Charlemagne organized the country into provinces golf travel packages scotland (each called a pagus), golf travel packages scotland and selected a compt to govern it (in the case of the pagus called P rigord, he named Wildbade). Successive compt s of the P rigord included Charles d'Orl ans (who was captured at the Battle of Agincourt and held prisoner in England for 25 years), two women (Jeanne d'Albret and Cath rine de Bourbon) and, in between the two women, Henri III de Navarre.
In 1790, the provinces were abandoned in favor of d partments, which is when the P rigord became the D partement of the Dordogne, which it has been ever since. The geographical boundaries of the Dordogne are almost identical golf travel packages scotland to those of the former P rigord. The D partement of the Dordogne is divided into four areas, each of which retains the word "P rigord" in it: black, white, green, and purple, each of course with its own local significance. Residents of the city of P rigueux are known as P rigordins.
Taking the train from Toulouse to Interlaken will involve an overnight in Toulouse and a 9 hr 40 min train trip with 3 train changes. Driving straight to Interlaken from Sarlat will take about 10 to 11 hrs with stops for lunch, dinner, pottie, "deviations", etc. That's too long of a driving trip for me.
- Drive from Ussel to Perouges visit Perouges. golf travel packages scotland This is a 3 3/4 hr trip. You could stay overnight in the charming village of Perouges (backdrop for many movies). Then it is a 3 3/4 hr drive to Interlaken the next day
If you drive to the Lyon Pt Dieu train station, it's a 5 3/4 trip to get there from Sarlat. Let's say you leave Sarlat at 9am get to Lyon at 3PM. You have to return the car. There is a train that leaves at 3:38 and arrives in Interlaken golf travel packages scotland at 10PM with 2 train changes. golf travel packages scotland You might miss this train if you have any "delays" like lunch, pottie, or filling the car up with gas. Next train leaves at 5:16 and arrives at 11:45 PM. I wouldn't do this - mainly because this travel day would be completely "lost" - no sightseeing, no dinner, etc.
Ok, since I seems to have provoked an eruption by calling the Perigord 'the Dordogne'. Living in 'notre Perigord' as we say in Carlux, I would never call my area 'the Dordogne.' But the poster, and many visitors do. So, PalenQ, I am not about to take lessons golf travel packages scotland from you on how to refer to the place I live.
Or, take the train from Paris to Bordeaux, then local train to Sarlat (you can probably go Paris-Perigueux and then local train again. I never do it because I live very close to Souillac, so dont know about the number of changes this involves.) Again, there are not always frequent trains to Sarlat.
I'm finding car rental prices (on AutoEurope) at the various locations interesting. Before reading this I had put in Sarlat as a pick up location and got a quote of $216. Then I put in Brive and got a quote of $410. Now I put in Periguex and get a quote of $218. I wonder why Brive is so much more expensive. But it sounds like Periguex will work just as well ( and looks like a pretty town as well).
isabel: CALL AutoEurope. They will likely give you the same price for Brive as they will for P rigueux (and the greater price for Brive makes no sense, as there are MANY more cars to be had in Brive than in the tiny P rigueux lots).
We picked our car up in Limoges because (1) we wanted to see Oradour-sur-Glane and (2) it got in earlier there than the other train stations. It was an easy two hour drive from there to Sarlat. Should you pick up at the Limoges train station, they should have cleaned up the blood from my arm by now.
Also, the train arrived in Limoges at 9:50 while the train to Brive arrived a little more than an hour later. So it would be the same time to get to Sarlat, but if you want to see Oradour sur Glane or Chateau golf travel packages scotland de Hautefort on the way to Sarlat, I would recommend Limoges. If not, head to Brive.
You can take a train from Gare Austerlitz (Paris) to Souillac; then board an SNCF connecting bus (very comfortable) for a beautiful half-hour drive to the Sarlat train station. Walk down the hall and pick-up your pre-reserved car at the Europcar at the bottom golf travel packages scotland of the hill. Voila.
golf travel packages scotland I just reserved a car through Kemwell. The price I was getting on AutoEurope's site for pick up in Brive was over $100 more than Perigeux and even when I called, the agent was unable to get the lower price for Brive - even though they were exact same cars, both through Europcar. golf travel packages scotland She said something about regional contracts. So I went on the Kemwell site and there was the same car, available for pick up in Brive for the lower price. I called the autoeurope agent back just cause I was curious, since Kemwell and autoeurope are sister companies (in fact the agent told me they a