Bordeaux Flights

Situated in the city of Mérignac, at around 15 km of the center, it has 2 terminals and the new "Porte Ibérique" for smaller jets going to Spain or Portugal.
Frequent flights to and from Paris (Orly and CDG) and several european destinations, plus a couple of overseas cities.

I'm not sure of the price if you go there by taxi, most probably around 18 euro from the center, or you can take the airport shuttle from the train station or place Gambetta (6.60 one way, 30 to 45 minutes)

Note that the control tower has been designed by Philippe Stark

Some major airlines also serve Bordeaux regulary, for example Lufthansa (from Munich) or MALEV (from Budapest). Please check to shedules of the airlines.

Instead of going directly to Bordeaux you can also take a plane to Paris. There is a regulary high-speed trainservice (TGV - train a grand vitesse) linking Paris and Bordeaux. Look at the SNCF-Website for more infos.

you can arrive too by plane, in merignac
a lot of possibilities to go to bordeaux after
taxi, buses, friends , ......me :-)!!!

Aéroport de Bordeaux
Cedex 40
33 700 Mérignac
Tél : 05 56 34 50 00
Fax : 05 56 34 23 01
www.bordeaux.aeroport.fr

Informations passagers
info@bordeaux.aeroport.fr
Tél : 05 56 34 50 50

You don't have much time, but you would still like to do some sightseeing ? Bordeaux taxi drivers and tourist office offer an overview tour of the city.

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The city has a good connections of the public transportation (bus and tram, the company is TBC, www.infotbc.com). The single ticket is EUR 1.40 for 1 hour journey. The one day ticket is EUR 4.10 and the week ticket is EUR 10.80. Don't forget to punch your new ticket! :-)

I found that renting a bicycle from a local shop in Bordeaux a most excellent way to explore Bordeaux. While the tram and bus system is convenient, having a bike enabled me to easily go from one place to the next. Plus Bordeaux has many bike lanes that cover most of the main routes in the city. The bike was relatively tame, medium tires, a rack on the back, lights front and back.....a little more metro than I am used to, but it worked fine for four days and even made the trip to St. Emilion. On rue Dr. Nancel Penard near Place Gambetta.

VCUB is the city's "bike for rent" system. I have never been to a city with so many cyclists using rented bikes. It is very cheap, very easily accessible and very practical, particularly as the tramways are often very crowded.

How does VCUB work? Depending on how long you stay in Bordeaux or how long you want to use the system, you can either go for a short term usage of 24 hours or 1 week or a long term usage of 1 month or 1 year. You go to the next VCUB terminal (they are literally everywhere, see this map for details), register with your debit card, pay (e.g. 5 euros for 7 days), receive a code which you !!MUST!! bear in mind and create your own 4-digit security number. You then take the bike and are free to go wherever you want. Once you're done, you simply leave it at the next VCUB terminal. The best: If you use it for less than 30 minutes, your trip won't cost you anything apart from the 5 euros!

One last thing: Be careful when you're using roads with tramway tracks. These have exactly the same width as your tyres and can cause some dangerous accidents.

The website below only exists in French, but perhaps the tourist information can help you with an English instruction manual.