GETTING TO LYON

BY PLANE

Aéroport St Exupéry
BP 113 69125 Lyon-Saint Exupéry Aéroport, France
www.lyon.aeroport.fr / T +33 (0)4 72 22 72 21

Airport shuttle
The SATOBUS shuttle runs all day between Lyon-Saint Exupéry airport and the main cities of the Rhône-Alpes Region.
The shuttle service between the airport and central Lyon operates every 20 minutes from 5:00 to 23:20.
The SATOBUS ticket office is open from 7:00 to 22:00 in the main hall of the airport, on level 1.
www.satobus.com
/ T +33 (0)4 72 68 72 17

Satobus airport/Lyon - every 20 mins (+33 (0)4 72 68 72 17)
Satobus airport/Annecy - advance booking required (+33 (0)4 50 51 20 08)
Satobus airport/Aix-les-Bains via Chambéry (+33 (0)4 50 51 08 51)
Satobus airport/Chambéry (+33 (0)4 79 69 11 88)

Main European city connections direct from Lyon Saint-Exupéry airport:

GERMANY: Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich, Stuttgart
BELGIUM: Brussels
FRANCE: Ajaccio, Bastia, Biarritz, Bordeaux, Brest, Caen, Calvi, Castres, Clermont-Ferrand, Figari, La Rochelle, Le Havre, Lille, Limoges, Lorient, Marseille, Mulhouse, Metz-Nancy, Nantes, Nice, Paris, Pau, Poitiers, Rennes, Rodez, Rouen, Strasbourg, Toulouse
ITALY: Bologna, Milan, Rome, Venice
MOROCCO: Agadir, Casablanca, Marrakech
HOLLAND: Amsterdam
POLAND: Warsaw
PORTUGAL: Lisbon

Since 1994 the airport TGV high-speed train station has been serving:

Aix-en-Provence, Aix-les-Bains, Annecy, Antibes, Arles, Avignon, Cannes, Chambéry, Grenoble, Marseille, Miramas, Montélimar, Nice, Orange, Paris, Saint-Raphaël, Toulon, Valence.

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BY TRAIN

www.sncf.fr / T +33 (0)8 36 35 35 35

Lyon's two main stations are:
- Gare de la Part Dieu (Boulevard Vivier Merle 69003 Lyon)
- Gare de Perrache (Place Carnot 69002 Lyon)
(A third TGV station at Lyon - Saint-Exupéry airport facilitates train/plane connections)

2 hours from Paris
1 hour 30 mins from Marseille
3 hours from Lille
4 hours from Brussels
5 hours from London
1 hour 45 mins from Montpellier
4 hours 15 mins from Rennes

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BY CAR

www.multitud.org / T +33 (0)4 78 54 33 33

Autoroute A42
connections to Pérouges (30 km) and Geneva (139 km)

Autoroute A43
connections to Chambéry (85 km), Grenoble (85 km) and Turin (307 km)

Autoroute A47
connections to St Etienne (60 km) and Clermont Ferrand (190 km)

Autoroute A6
connections to Villefranche (32 km), Mâcon (64 km) and Paris (445 km)

Autoroute A7
connections to Marseille (314 km), Nice (464 km) and Barcelona (640 km)

Autoroute A46 (also called Rocade Est)
connections to autoroutes A6, A42, A43 and A7, bypasses Lyon to the east.

For further information, consult the following websites:
CORALY, for real-time traffic information
Périphérique Nord de Lyon (northern ring road)
Service d'informations routières (traffic information service)

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TRAVEL IN TOWN

TCL (Lyon public transport): bus, tram, metro, etc.
www.tcl.fr / T 08 20 42 70 00 (0,12€ /min)

OPTIBUS (Public transport service for people with reduced mobility)
www.optibus.fr / T +33 (0)4 37 25 37 25

Vélo'v (24/7 bike rental from Vélo'v stations)
www.velov.grandlyon.com / T 0 800 08 35 68 ((toll-free)

Cycle paths
Download the cycle path map for Lyon and Villeurbanne (pdf)