Travel Essentials
Car Directions:
The quays of the Port of Calais are directly connected (via the new autoroute bypass) to the European motorway network by the A26 (Calais-Dijon) - which serves the centre of France and provides access to Southern Europe avoiding Paris. The A16 links to the Benelux and Northern Europe motorway systems.
Bus Directions:
A free bus service operates daily, taking you to and from the ferry port to Place D’Armes and the central Calais-Ville railway station in Calais-Sud.
Rail Directions:
Trains run daily between Calais and Amiens, Boulogne, Etaples, Le Touquet, Lille and Paris. A free bus service connects the train station in Calais with the ferry port.
Planning Ahead
Places of Interest:
The Fine Art and Lace Museum on rue Richelieu contains several of Rodin’s works, and in front of the town hall is his famous statue "The Burghers of Calais". The War Museum can be found in Parc Richelieu.
Local Hotels:
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Food:
Calais has some excellent restaurants in the town centre, together with a number of small cafés. Seafood is very popular.
Ferrybooker.com local connection:
Ferrybooker's head honcho, Max de Grunwald, once went to Dover for 15 minutes. Ferrybooker's Talented Project Manager, Emma Poore, took a booze cruise to Calais back in 2003 and drank all her beer before she got back to Dover.
Drink:
With numerous huge booze hypermarkets scattered around Calais it is no surprise that wine and beer are popular.
Looking for the best advice on where to go and what to buy
when you're shopping for wine in Calais? Visit Superplonk's Guide
to Calais
and get the lowdown from Malcolm Gluck, Guardian wine writer
and best selling author of Superplonk.
For more information on Calais visit www.calais-port.com
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