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Momondo.com: Search all European airlines, including low-cost carriers, for the cheapest fare. Independent site, free to use. Your new one-stop shop for searching for airlines connections.

Note: The Ministry of Finance and Economy's consumer and fraud unit and the consumer association UFC have investigated how independent such sites are from the companies presented. 11 out of 12 sites were reminded about the regulations in force, since they were not respecting them. Five sites incorretly made the consumers believe that their selections of traders were exclusive. One privileged their trading partner that were paying for a better presentation. Packaging and post may or may not be included. The sites may be useful, but it is advised not to depend exclusively on them.

Acheter-moins-cher.com.
VoyagerMoinscher.com. PriceMinister.com's travel search engine for cheap travel.
Buycentral from Lycos.
Travel.AirlineCodes.co.uk.
Leguide.com.
Kelkoo.fr from Yahoo.
Monsieurprix.com.
Pricerunner.fr.

General Travel Portals & Booking Sites, Charter

Momondo.com: Search all European airlines, including low-cost carriers, for the cheapest fare. Independent site, free to use. Your new one-stop shop for searching for airlines connections.

Afat Voyages.
Anyway.
Carrefour.
Cmes Vacances.
Cora Voyages.
Donatello.
eBookers.
e-Leclerc.
Expedia US. Note: Accounts on the different Expedia sites are distinct.
Expedia UK. For example, an account on expedia.com cannot be accessed from expedia.fr.
Expedia France. But you can create the same account name on different sites and they will function as 2 different accounts.
Fram.
Go Voyages.
Jet Tours.
Kuoni.
Lastminute.fr.
Look Voyages. Charter from France, flights.
Marmara.
Nouvelles Frontières.
Odysia.
Opodo.
Planetanoo. Cheap travel deals. Owned by PriceMinister.com.
Promovacances.
Selectour.
Thomas Cook France.
Printemps Voyages.
Voyages du Monde.
SNCF Voyages.
Voila.
Auchan Voyages.
VVF Vacances.
Wasteels.
Yahoo France.

Airlines

Momondo.com: Search all European airlines, including low-cost carriers, for the cheapest fare. Independent site, free to use. Your new one-stop shop for searching for airlines connections.
Momondo's list of airlines.

Flightmapping: Interactive map showing which airlines fly where from the city you click on. Good site.
Flyingwithkids: Advice about flying with children.
Low-cost-airlines: Search for low-cost airlines.
Actulowcost: Info about low-cost airlines flying from France, Belgium and Switzerland.
Ufreight: Enter airline name and find its 2-letter code. Incomplete.

Banned airlines: The European Commission's list of blacklisted airlines that do not comply with safety regulations.

The intention with the following list is to show the airlines flying from France. Just a year ago, it would have made sense to divide it in low-cost airlines and others. However, under the huge competition from low-cost airlines, the 'historic' airlines like British Airways have started slashing their prices to discount level, and other 'historic' airlines like Air France/KLM often have very competitive promotions. If you live in France, you are probably paying for their vast government subsidies through your taxes, so you might just as well get something in return by using their sometimes very cheap flights. As for low-cost airlines, they are not always low-cost. Just as the historic airlines, they know how to cash in during busy seasons, and their prices can sometimes be much higher than if you fly 'historic'. In the past, you could log on to for example travelocity to check out the cheapest promostions, but that's a thing of the past with the low-cost airlines that mostly don't want to pay for being listed in these global ticketing systems. Getting cheap flights now can sometimes require many hours of research.

Hotels, Resorts, Holiday Lettings

Because of the vast choice of hotels and other types of accommodation, it has been decided to include only sponsored ads and countrywide hotel chains of known reputation that have a large number of hotels. We refer you to the yellow pages at Pagesjaunes and 118 218 / Le Numéro for the region you want to stay in if you want more choice. The Open Directory is also a good place to look. We do, however include plain links to resorts that offer facilities in addition to being simply a hotel. To help you fill in the French department numbers and region names, you can consult our maps. 

The countrywide Accor Group provides a consistent quality in comfort levels ranging from discount, basic comfort to luxury and focus on customer service - something you cannot take for granted in France. Whatever comfort you choose, you can expect the hotel to be clean.

The countrywide Louvre Hotels Group, formerly Groupe Envergure, provides a choice of discount and basic comfort hotels and one luxury hotel chain. We do not have much experience with them, except for their Première Classe discount hotels, which are perfect if you just need to sleep and are happy with plastic interior. They have family-friendly rooms with two double beds. The ones I have tried have been spotlessly clean.

See also Skovgaard Europe's list of real estate sites, some of which include holiday rentals.

Gîtes de France. Rural accommodation.
Abritel. Holiday rentals worldwide from person to person (no agents).
Appart-in-france. Property for holiday and furnished short term lettings.
Bertrandvacances. Holiday lettings.
Bm3 Vacances. Holiday lettings.
Whereonearthgroup.com.
L'internaute. Holiday lettings.

Aqualand. Resort.
Centerparcs. Resort.
ClubMed. Resort.

Hiking

Terres d'Aventure.
Enlightened Traveller. Hiking bookings in France.

Active Holiday / Vacation

UCPA. Sports activities.

Cruise

Costa Croisières

Ferry & Tunnel Links

Dover to Calais. Find the cheapest way to cross the Channel. Also train and plane info.
Ferrybooker.com.
Ferry Information Service with driving and road information.
Ferry to France P&O Ferry tickets, special offers, and ferry travel information. This site specialise in finding cheap deals.
P&O Stena Dover-Calais ferries.
Seafrance Dover-Calais ferries.
Eurotunnel Folkestone-Calais.

Paris Public Transport & Road Conditions

RATP. Public transport in the Paris region. Official site.
Citéfutée. Public transport in the Paris region. Official site.
Plan du Déplacements Urbains d'Ile-de-France. Urban travel maps for the Paris region.
Sytadin. Road traffic in the Paris region minute for minute with interactive maps.

Roads, Driving, Parking, Fuel prices

P NEW: Locate a parking space for short or long term use online: oumegarer.com

European Accident Statement form in English. Buy a form to be sure you understand an accident description.
Fuel prices. Government site comparing fuel prices.
Autoroutes. Motorway/freeway info.
Lycos.
Bison Futé. Highway traffic information.

Rail

SNCF. Official French national rail site.
Rail Europe USA. Rail Europe is North America's official distributor of Eurail pass and Europe Rail as well as the France Rail Pass, BritRail Pass, Swiss Rail Pass, Eurostar Tickets, Trenitalia Tickets, SNCF Tickets and DeutscheBahn Tickets. The US site is designed to service customers from the United States, Mexico, The Caribbean and Central American countries.
Rail Europe Canada.
Rail Europe UK. Rail Europe specialise in selling tickets and passes for travel throughout Europe by train.
Rail Europe Australia.
Rail Europe Belgium.
Rail Europe Germany.
Rail Europe Italy.
Rail Europe Japan.
Rail Europe Luxembourg.
Rail Europe Netherlands.
Rail Europe South Africa.
Rail Europe Spain.
Rail Europe Switzerland.

Car Hire

New concept: Buy-back from Peugeot. If you are traveling to Europe and need a car for more than 17 days, save money in a factory-new Peugeot. Insurance included. Only available to citizens not resident in the European Union (see list of member states if in doubt).

Ada France
Autoeurope. Cell / mobile phone and GPS rental possible.
Avis France.
Budget France.
Citer/National.
Europcar France.
France-car-hire-rental.com. Car hire broker with/without chauffeur. They search for lowest prices available and issue a price guarantee.
Hertz France.
Sixt France.

With driver
Minibus limousine service near Avignon, Provence.

Maps, Route Planners, Satellite Photos

IGN Geoportail. Satellite photos and maps of France and French territories, all in 1:25000.
Google Maps
Google Satellite Photos
Michelin. Maps and route planner for travel by car.
Mapquest route planner and worldwide maps for travel by car.
Maporama route planner and worldwide maps for travel by car.
Lycos.
Voila.
Maps of administrative France. Départements and regions in maps and lists.
Risk Map. Maps and lists of risks commune by commune for the entire France. Flooding, earthquake, industrial, forest fires etc.
Map of polluting sites.

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