Aix-en-Provence Transportation

Some road distances to Aix-en-Provence from:

- Verona (Italy): 639 kms.
- Charleroi (Belgium): 954. kms.
- Madrid (Spain): 1.092 kms.
- Linz (Austria): 1.186. kms.

Checking the website, you’ll find more road distances together with the driving times and the best routes.

Aix has a TGV station 8 km from the city centre that's a great place to arrive from Paris. The tickets are by reservation only - so make sure you plan in advance for that. Tickets are about 150 USD from Paris for a first class seat. Once in Aix I recommend that you rent a car and proceed on your adventures through the south!

The TGV station is way out of town at Aix - around 10 miles - there are buses between Aix town centre and the TGV station every 15 minutes. Timetable can be found at

http://www.infociao.com/pdf/reseaux/aix_tgv_aeroport.pdf

The train station in Aix is where you can go to buy your tickets for the TGV to Paris and elsewhere. You do not, however, board the TGV at this station. You must take a shuttle, taxi, or car to the very modern and new station which is a few miles outside of town.

Generally speaking, one who knows Aix does not take the train from there to Marseille or Nice because the bus is so much more convenient, cheaper. To Nice the bus takes about the same time as the TGV since you would have to go to Marseille to take it.

Location: at the end of Avenue Victor Hugo turn right and you are looking at it.

A good way to get around Aix en Provence is to take the local bus.
It's cheap and efficient, at least during day time. Most buses stop
going at 10pm, so make sure that you've planned your trip back!
On sundays, there's almost no bus service at all, keep that in mind.
A tip is also to buy a carnet of 10 tickets in advance, it can be bought
in most "tabac"-stores or at the tourist office, costs about 7 euro.

I never really dare taking the bus abroad because we never know where to take it and where to stop.
Aix en Provence buses are relatively easy to use for one reason: they all have a stop in common, they meet at La Rotonde which is the very centre of Aix. Therefore you can take a bus and if need be stay on it and always come back next to the tourist office. You can't get lost in the middle of nowhere...

The best way to see Provence is just to rent a car, and drive. There are trains, but to do it at your own pace is the best way to explore, and find places that nobody knows about. Autoeurope seems to have pretty good deals on cars, and you can return them in different cities, as long as they're in the same country.

Aix is such a great place to walk around - in fact it's really all you can do to see this town, as the streets tend to be narrow and winding, and steep - but mind the dogspoo of course. You will discover lots of lovely little nooks, but buy a map - it's an easy town to be lost in.