Caen Travel Forum

Will arrive Caen area by trian from Paris for day touring of Normandy beaches. I can stay in Caen or any Normandy city where I can rent a car or take bus tour for the day. Questions:
1. Which town should I train to so as to either be able to rent a car OR avail of a bus tour?
2. Any B&B or similarly inexpensive hotel option suggested for THAT city or town?

Merci Beaucoup
Rolf

Dear all, I'm hoping to be in Caen from fall 2010-spring 2011. I am passionate about volunteer work, but unfortunately I don't know any particular social problems that Caen is faced with. Would anyone who knows the area please give me some insight?

Thank you!

We will be arriving in Paris on saturday, 8/8/09 and plan to go to Caen to visit the beaches and memorials. Are the memorials open on sunday becuse I read there are no tours on sunday, also can I rent a car in Caen? Is it better( time wise or price wise) to rent a car in Paris, or Caen or take the train. What is a reasonablly priced hotel (40 to 50 euro).
















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Hi there,

I will be driving from Calais to Rennes for my holidays and am looking for somewhere to stop off in the Caen area. We'd like a place that's easily accessible from the A13 / A84 where we can stop off and eat early evening, perhaps with some nice scenery or culture to take in. Any suggestions very much appreciated as we do not know the area at all!

Thanks
Jenni

Hello

Can anyone please tell me how to get from St Malo to Caen? I think there is a train from St Malo to Dol-de Bretagne then from there to Caen.
But does anyone know if there is a more direct route, e.g. by bus??

Thanks.

Hi My OAP mother and her equally elderly friend are flying from dublin to attend my brothers weddings in Caen. One option is to fly to Paris and get a train from the st lazare ? train station. That would require them navigating through the paris metro and being able to figure out what platform their train will leave from. They have no french.
My two questions are, is there a direct train from Rennes train station? It might be a bit easier to figure out then paris and they can fly to Rennes. Also I notice that caen has a airport, does anyone know if they are any flights into caen airport from the UK ? They are travelling in July.
Thankyou very much.

I'm arriving on the overnight sailing from Portsmouth. Looks to me that the first express bus to Honfleur is at about 12.40. So, that gives us about 3 hours in Caen - but with luggage. Does the SNCF, or elsewhere, have facilities for leaving luggage? - or does anyone have any bright ideas?

Thanks

Has anybody stayed at the Robert Reme hostel in Caen? I'm hoping to stay in Caen at Easter & and am wondering what the hostel is like. Also does anybody know if it's easy to get to from the Ferry port?

Thanks

I'd like to visit Caen soon and I'm going to take an overnight ferry from Portsmouth to Ouistreham which arrives at 7 a.m. How can I get to Caen???
To get back to UK, I'm going to take overnight ferry again from Ouistreham to Portsmouth which leaves at 23.30 from Ouistreham. How can I get from Caen to Ouistreham to catch the ferry??? Iknow that there're shuttle bus but not for each ferry. Can somebody help me, please. I'm really looking forward to seeing norman/romanesque churches in Caen. Thank You in advance.

I'm planning a trip to Caen in early July and will be visiting places in the area such as Bayeux, Argentan, Alencon and Giberville. And since I will be using trains and public transport to get around what would be the best area in Caen for me to stay, near the train station or the center of town?

Also, how do-able is it to visit both Argentan and Alencon the same day using the train.

We will be arriving on the ferry to Ouistreham and need to pick up our car at the train station in Caen. How are we going to get there? Are there shuttles? Buses? Taxis? How much should we expect to pay?

Thank you for any guidance you can give me.

I'll visit caen on first of march for a couple of days.
Any suggestions on what to do?!

Hi.
We're taking a friend to Normandy in September. Staying in a gite about 10kms east of Bayeux.
On our last trip, in 2001, we found some okay restarants in Bayeux, but nothing great.
We're looking for reasonably-priced, non-tourist-ripoff places that specialize in Norman cuisine. It's our bud's first time in France, and we want him to have a great experience.
If anyone has any recommendations, I'd be delighted to collect them.
Thanks in advance.

We are trying to find a hotel in Caen for the 4&5 June 2004. Anyone know of any available. We have been trying since January without luck. Like so many others, we also want to attend the 60th Anniverysary D-Day Ceremonies....

Hi,

We are planning to visit Caen for one day, and may be stay there one night.

Can you advise places to see, restaurants and hotels there? I have heard of a World War 2 museum in Caen. Is it worth seeing. Or where do you advise to see about the Nomandy battle?

Thank you