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Find a train from Paris to Le Havre. How to get to Le Havre from Paris, France Cruise Port of Le Havre France

From correspondence with clients, suddenly someone will come in handy?

Paris is located 200 kilometers from Le Havre, the most affordable options to get to Paris are by train or rent a car right at the ship terminal.

Let's start with the railway. Travel time from 2 hours 15 minutes to 2 hours 30 minutes, depending on the time of departure. Here is an example itinerary:

That is, leaving the station at 9 am, you will be in Paris by lunchtime. The train makes one stop in Rouen, but at a convenient station, a quick transfer to the next train.
The return train is direct, you will reach the Le Havre station by nine in the evening. The cost per person is almost 50 euros. The train has its wonderful advantages: in France, the trains are clean, comfortable, almost silent. You can stare around without thinking about the road, and, most importantly, DO NOT get caught in a traffic jam AT THE ENTRY/EXIT from Paris. That is, traffic jams are less than in Moscow, but you do not have much time to lose sight of this factor.

To buy tickets, you need to understand a little English and have a credit card. Then they can be ordered online and immediately printed here at this link:

choose the cities and time you need, at the end choose e-ticket - that is, print the ticket yourself. And that's all.

If suddenly the train is delayed and you do not have time for the ship - call us, we will arrange a big tour of Normandy for all the remaining days :)

The downside is that, of course, the train may suddenly be delayed - a breakdown / problem / well, you never know? And then there is a danger of missing the boat. The likelihood of such a development of events is small, but it exists.

now about renting a car - here's what you can get for a day:

That is, there are a lot of options, and it seems not so expensive. The only thing is that this price is for 250 kilometers. You need to take on 400-500 km. This means that the price will be higher, plus the payment for travel on the highway (about 30 euros). Plus the cost of gasoline. A liter of diesel fuel costs around 1.38 euros. That is, for 5-6 people, the price will not differ much from train tickets. Pluses of the car - independence, and bigger control of your movements. Minus - someone will have to steer, plus - of course, traffic jams. Paris is at least 2 hours away. To the center - at least another 30 minutes, if there are no traffic jams.

It is absolutely necessary to travel around Paris only by steamboats or on foot - especially for the first time. The metro is not the cleanest, there are traffic jams on the roads. As a last resort, there are excellent ordinary city buses that travel around the center along the Seine for one ticket priced in euros.

If you need a guide, or just an escort, write - there is everything!

Before talking about the sights of this Norman town, I will answer those who asked me to tell you how to get to Etretat. For example, from .

It's simple, but it's better to find out the details in advance than to look for advisers at the stop stations, who in most cases do not understand English.

In this note:

Arrived in Le Havre

From Le Havre ( B ) to Étretat ( FROM ) regular buses run Keolis Seine Maritime.

We study the schedule in advance on the company's website: we need route 24. The grid is bulky, but easy to understand. Travel time: 40 minutes - 01 hour, depending on the number of stops. Ticket price in 2013: 02.00 €, and the same for luggage.

This is the most budgetary way, but we are mentally preparing for the fact that there will be a lot of people who want it (especially in summer). There are six regular flights a day, three more are added in the summer. The last bus to Etretat leaves at 18:05. Later you will have to catch a taxi if you find it :)

Arrived in Breot-Besville:

Two French municipalities: ( D ) Bezville-la-Grenier ( Beuzeville-la-Grenier) and ( E ) Breote ( Breaute) are adjacent to each other.

Railroad station ( Gare de Breaute Beuzeville) they have in common, from it we will get to Etretat ( F ).

From here there is one evening bus service on Friday and one morning bus service on Saturday. We look at the schedule along route 17. Travel time: 30 minutes. Ticket price in 2013: 02.00 € , and the same for luggage.

Taxi

This is another common way to get from Breote Bezville station to Etretat.

This option seemed to us the most convenient: there is no need to guess the schedule and think about whether the suitcases will fit on the bus. Travel time: 30 minutes. The fastest way, but the trip will cost about 50.00 € (at 2013 prices).

For some time we wandered around the station and looked for where to get a driver. Cars sleep in the parking lot. The places reserved for taxis are empty.

Silence. Only cows moo in the field.

To order a taxi that will take you from Breote Bezville to Etretat, you need to call one of the phone numbers listed on the back of this sign.

Two phone numbers = two taxi drivers available in this area. Finish their business and pick you up. They don't speak much English, so it's a good idea to memorize something in French like: "Now the Breauté Bezville train station, then Etretat" (it might work in English too) :) Or ask someone "speaking" to order a car in advance.

Upper Normandy, by the way, is considered "the most non-English-speaking region of France." It sounds ominous, because the French, in principle, do not indulge us with love for English, but here you can’t draw a word at all. It's great if this isn't a problem for you. Otherwise, get ready to scrape off the rudiments of French from the subcortex.

Finally, the driver arrived, read the name of our hotel in Etretat, said " Yes”, and brought us here in twenty minutes:

The rooms and administrative offices of the hotel are located in the castle, which was built in the 19th century.

And also in the building of an old villa.

From our window, the cliffs I was talking about were visible.

Next time we will go around all the local streets and finish the series of notes about Etretat.

If you plan not only to come to Etretat, but also to leave here, it makes sense to attend to the same bus schedules for return flights, or in advance order a taxi. By the time they find time to come here, the train will have time to leave for Paris without you.

Le Havre is a city located in Normandy, in northern France. It has access to the English Channel and already in the 16th century was considered the most important port city of France. Today, Le Havre hosts over 120 cruise ships of all types and about 350,000 passengers a year. Due to its location and good infrastructure, it is considered an excellent starting point for cruises in Northern Europe.

Where is the cruise port

The harbor cruise terminal is located in 2.5 km from the center Le Havre. Passengers are disembarked at two berths. Going ashore, you can reach the city on foot. A leisurely walk takes approximately 25 minutes.

Many cruise lines offer free transfer to the center, others charge a fee (from 10 euros).

The port offers services shuttles, a trip on which will cost 8 euros.

Taxi to the center of Le Havre costs 8 euros, to the Gare du Havre station - 10 euros.

Excursions, transport in the port

Near the cruise terminal there are bicycle rentals (10 euros / day) and cars (from 90 euros / day), there are taxi ranks. You can travel between lower and upper Le Havre by funicular (0.50 euros per trip).

At the information center of the port of Le Havre, you can get all the necessary information about the city, transport, excursions, as well as take advantage of brochures and tourist services.

local companies and cruise ships offer excursions to Rouen, Honfleur, Deauville and other cities. Prices - from 45 euros.

What to see in Le Havre on a cruise

It will take no more than 1-2 hours to see the sights of Le Havre. During the war, the city was destroyed almost to the ground, so it retained few historical sights. Worth to visit Cathedral XVI century (one of the oldest buildings in the city), an unusual Church of Saint Joseph, resembling a skyscraper - it was built as a monument to the victims of World War II, Museum of Old Le Havre located in a traditional mansion. Art lovers are advised to visit Malraux Museum, which stores paintings by Renoir and Monet.

What to see around the port

The favorable location of Le Havre allows you to discover many interesting places with free time. AT 25 km away from the city is a picturesque Honfleur, famous for the oldest wooden church in France (XV century).

27 km from Le Havre is the city Etretat(bus number 24 runs to it). It owes its popularity to rocks with natural arches and landscapes of amazing beauty.

AT 90 km from Le Havre located Rouen. This city is called the pearl of Northern France, which is quite right: in Rouen you can visit the impressive Cathedral, see the Big Clock of the XIV century, the tower of Joan of Arc and many other historical monuments. There are trains from Le Havre to Rouen, but you can buy a ship excursion for 50 Euro.

A long distance (about 200 km) does not stop those who dream of "seeing Paris". You can get to the French capital from Le Havre by train. It departs every two hours and arrives at Paris Saint-Lazare station. Travel time will be 2 hours, ticket price - from 30 euros. If you choose between Rouen and Paris, it's worth doing a choice in favor of the first city, where all the sights are located nearby, and he himself is closer to Le Havre, or buy an excursion to Paris by ship (from 90 euros).

Restaurants

Normandy is famous for its gastronomy. Therefore, time in Le Havre should be used as a chance to get to know local cuisine. Try pear and apple cider, oysters, veal in cream, the famous Camembert cheese - a minimum program for all city guests. Le Havre has a large selection of traditional Normandy restaurants, typical French coffee shops and international cuisine (American, Asian, Creole).

Shopping, souvenirs

It will not be difficult to find shopping streets near compact Le Havre: they are located in a busy center. There are boutiques of French and European brands, antique shops, souvenir shops, jewelry stores. The most popular place for shopping is considered shopping center Espace Coty with over 80 stores. As a souvenir from Le Havre, they take away the strong drink Calvados, dolls in traditional clothes and ceramics.

Where to stay before and after the cruise?

For a pre-cruise stop at the port, try Airbnb, where you can rent a full-fledged apartment for the price of a hotel room. By registering with our link you will receive coupon for 2100 rubles. for your first stay from 4500 rubles!

Parking in Le Havre turned out to be perhaps the most controversial of all that appeared on the route of this flight. Despite the fact that even in the description of the cruise, after the name of the port itself, the word “Paris” was confidently contained, the opportunity to visit it was rather conditional. The fact is that from Le Havre to Paris by highway or rail is pretty decent - about two hundred kilometers. If we discard the options for excursions or transfers officially offered to passengers (which cost a total of five thousand dollars for two), then it was guaranteed to get from Le Havre to Paris on your own only by train. However, taking into account the total time of today's parking in Le Havre, only four hours remained to get acquainted with the city itself. Such is the misfortune. Alternatively, and, most importantly, more fully, one could get acquainted with the Normandy cities closer to Le Havre: Rouen, Honfleur, or visit the Allied landing site on the Normandy beach in 1944. Not the fact that the choice in favor of Paris was the right one, but, nevertheless, we went there.

The port of Le Havre is not inferior in scale to the previous Belgian Zeebrugge - from the pier to the station it turned out to be a kilometer and a half. At the final part of the distance, one could admire the still sleeping Le Havre.

Accommodation on trains in Europe is usually quite comfortable. In France, there were often such double-decker trains with an invigorating interior coloring inside.

A couple of hours after leaving Le Havre, the top of the creation of the engineer Eiffel flashed in the train window between the houses, and a few minutes later the train ran into one of the stations of the French capital - Sainte-Lazare.

Gare Sainte-Lazare is the oldest of all stations in Paris. Its first building was built back in 1837, simultaneously with the opening of the first line of the French railway. Now this station connects Paris with the northwestern regions of the country, mainly with Normandy. St. Lazare is located quite conveniently and relatively close to the main hiking trails. Thus, without any delay, it was possible to get down to business.
The main "postcard" sights of Paris, at first glance, are also convenient for acquaintance. By and large, they can be inspected without resorting to public transport- just passing from one to another. Another question is that their total number is such that the total length of the campaign can easily exceed a dozen or two kilometers. A more or less detailed and not very tiring acquaintance with this city can probably be fit in four days, but not four hours. In general, what follows is a short photo story, which should have been titled as "Paris: fast and tedious."

The first key point was the building of the Parisian theater "Grand Opera", the square in front of it, as well as the avenue of the same name, going straight to the Louvre. Despite all the pomposity, the theater building is very harmoniously inscribed in the surrounding buildings. Also called the "Palace Garnier", the building was built during the era of the Second Empire of Napoleon III, during which large-scale development of Paris was carried out under the leadership of the then governor, Baron Haussmann. At the same time, everything and everything was rebuilt - which is why the central part of Paris now seems to be almost a single whole.

Entrance to the nearest metro station to the Louvre. In my opinion, similar plant elements were borrowed for the design of one of the recently opened metro stations in Moscow.

Fortress, royal palace, and now one of the largest art museums in the world - the Louvre. The view of the side facade is not bad for those who came to Paris for four hours.

Rue Rivoli - one of the longest and most famous in Paris - a natural continuation of the Champs Elysees to the east of the Place de la Concorde. It stretches along the right bank of the Seine for three kilometers parallel to the course of the river.

Well, we, of course, to the river. No Parises can interfere with this craving!.

Formally, we have already seen the Seine today - Le Havre is located at its mouth, and the road from Le Havre to Paris crosses this river more than once, but still the association of the Seine with Paris cannot be disputed.
The Seine has a length of almost 800 kilometers and is navigable for 3/4 of its entire length. Sea vessels with a draft of up to 6.5 meters pass to Rouen; between Rouen and Paris there are river boats with a draft of up to 3.2 meters. A network of canals connects the Seine with the Somme, Scheldt, Meuse, Rhine, Saône and Loire. The main ports on the Seine are Paris, Rouen, Le Havre. Within the boundaries of Paris, the river is actively used by the pleasure fleet. Some ships of the small fleet are very difficult to attribute specifically to the small fleet :).

There are 37 bridges across the Seine within Paris. Without them, life in Paris would be very difficult - the river divides the city in the center into two almost equal parts, and even winds around the suburbs several times.

The bridges were built in different eras, which, accordingly, affected their appearance.

The New Bridge (Pont Neuf) is one of the most famous. Today, his image can be found in many paintings, engravings, drawings, he is one of the first places in Paris, which was captured on film. It was the first bridge in Paris not built up with residential buildings, which turned the passage through it into an open-air journey.

The new bridge leads to one of the islands that temporarily divides the channel of the Seine into two branches - the island of Cité. Cité is the historical heart of the city. It was here that Lutetia arose - the first settlement in these places, which later became the prototype of Paris. Now the main attention of tourists in this area is riveted to the famous Notre Dame Cathedral, somewhat lost among the monumental buildings of different eras.

As for the cathedral itself, along with the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre, this object is one of the most popular symbols of Paris. Notre Dame Cathedral was built, according to the traditions of the Middle Ages, for about 200 years, starting in 1163. However, according to the same traditions, it was never completed to the image conceived at the beginning.

In view of the limited time and long distances, walking acquaintance with Paris turned out to be more and more tiring - it was necessary to transfer to transport. There are two main sightseeing options in Paris - bus and water. From the bus, of course, you can see much more, but being in a city with a navigable river and not making a trip along it would be an unforgivable mistake.

Having plunged into one of the many boats cruising the Seine, we set off along the busiest section of the river - from Notre Dame Cathedral to the Eiffel Tower.

Arrow - here the island de la Cité divides the Seine into two branches.

Bridges, bridges, bridges...

Pedestrian bridge of the Arts and Institute of France.

The Seine, clad in stone banks, was very reminiscent of the Tiber in Rome. Of course, the Seine is much larger, but the architecture and landscapes are very similar. By the way, about landscapes. Even in the guide I read some warning that due to fluctuations in the water level in the river, sometimes, during a boat trip along the Seine, nothing can be seen except for the lining of the embankments. In our case, of course, not "nothing", but very little was visible.
Another bridge - Royal - and a piece of the Louvre.

The fleet parked in the very center of the city near the embankment is not at all on vacation. It is very fashionable for the Parisians to live on such barges. They say that Pierre Richard lives on one of these boats.

In the next photo, there are three interesting things at once: a high-tech pleasure boat, the Alexander III bridge and tower number 1. The bridge, named after the Russian emperor, was founded in October 1896 by his son Nicholas II and marked the strengthening of Russian-French friendship. They say that it was after the construction of this bridge that relations between France and Russia became unusually friendly and warm and remain so to this day.

Cathedrals, palaces and museums are all, of course, good. But I, as a lover of various kinds of places where technology and architecture are intertwined, was drawn, of course, closer to it.

Having a weakness for all kinds of high-altitude points, of course, I wanted to visit observation deck Eiffel Tower. However, today was Sunday, and the real mass of those wishing to survey Paris practically guaranteed a delay in the return train to Le Havre - they had to be content with appearances.

In order to climb the tower, there are two ways: an elevator and stairs. The queue for the stairs was purely symbolic, but climbing a couple of hundred meters up on foot seemed not very comfortable.

So I would like to tell something more interesting about Paris in this part - the city certainly deserves much more, but the allotted four hours were coming to an end, and it was time to rush to the train.

Despite the fleeting acquaintance, some general impression of Paris still appeared. I can't say whether I liked Paris or not. Rather, he was simply not impressed, which, of course, is due to the catastrophically small amount of time spent in the city. As for the landscapes, if we move away from very iconic points such as a tower, a river or fields, then the architecture of the central part of the city is, of course, pretty, but very familiar and even familiar. My fantasy found noticeable analogies with the "imperial" cities of Europe and even with St. Petersburg.

The large interval in train traffic between Le Havre and Paris did not allow to stay longer in the capital, but it gave the opportunity to get to know Le Havre not only in the seaport area.
Le Havre is a city in northern France, in the Upper Normandy region. Le Havre is located on the right bank of the Seine, near its mouth. The river separates this city from the Lower Normandy region and the neighboring city of Honfleur. To the north and west of Le Havre is the coast of the English Channel. Population 188 thousand people.

In 1944, as a result of British air attacks during the Battle of Normandy of World War II, about 5 thousand inhabitants were killed and more than 12 thousand houses were destroyed. After the war, the city center was rebuilt in the Art Nouveau style by Auguste Pere.

All the current buildings of Le Havre are dominated by the skyscraper-like 107-meter bell tower of the Church of Saint-Joseph, erected in 1957, by the same Mr. Pere.

The work of the architect Pere was so successful that thanks to the modernist post-war development, the center of Le Havre was included in the list world heritage UNESCO in 2005. The city has also been called "an exceptional example of post-war architecture and urban planning". Our interest here is that it was the projects of houses for the mass construction of the authorship of Pere that were taken as the basis for the “five-story Khrushchev buildings” familiar to many Russians. Some streets of Le Havre, indeed, have obvious analogies with the districts of Russian cities.

It would not be a pity, but it is time to turn the French page of travel.

After admiring the evening panorama of Le Havre from the height of the 14th deck, we hurry to a French dinner with snails :).
To be continued...

The City of Love tops many travel lists and there's a good reason for that. One of the world's most fashionable cities, Paris is a hub for culture, exquisite food and wine, architecture and art. Take a trip up the world-renowned Eiffel Tower, visit the Mona Lisa at the famed Louvre museum, spend a day wandering around the Musée d'Orsay, and revel in the wonders of Notre Dame Cathedral. No trip is complete without a visit to the Arc de Triomphe, shopping along the Champs Elysées and a performance at the Moulin Rouge.

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Louvre

The Louvre or the Louvre Museum is the world's largest art museum and an historic monument in Paris, France. A central landmark of the city, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the city's 1st arrondissement (district or ward). Approximately 38,000 objects from prehistory to the 21st century are exhibited over an area of 72,735 square meters (782,910 square feet). The Louvre in 2016 was the world's most visited art museum, receiving 7.3 million visitors.
Eiffel Tower

The Eiffel Tower is a wrought iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower.
Montmartre

Montmartre is a large hill in Paris"s 18th arrondissement. It is 130 m high and gives its name to the surrounding district, part of the Right Bank in the northern section of the city. The historic district established by the City of Paris in 1995 is bordered by rue Caulaincourt and rue Custine on the north, rue de Clignancourt on the east, and boulevard de Clichy and boulevard de Rochechouart to the south, containing 60 ha. the Sacré-Cœur on its summit, and as a nightclub district.
Notre-Dame de Paris

Notre-Dame de Paris, also known as Notre-Dame Cathedral or simply Notre-Dame, is a medieval Catholic cathedral on the Île de la Cité in the fourth arrondissement of Paris, France. The cathedral is widely considered to be one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture, and it is among the largest and most well-known church buildings in the world. The naturalism of its sculptures and stained glass serve to contrast it with earlier Romanesque architecture.

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Find a train from Paris to Le Havre. How to get to Le Havre from Paris, France Cruise Port of Le Havre France