Tours-airport

Tours Airport

Officially called Aeroport de St.Symphorien, Tours airport is located 6 km northeast of the city and is a good option as a destination as it gives excellent access to the whole of Loire Valley/Centre region.

The airport is a 10 minute taxi trip to the city centre where you have access to the TGV and SNCF rail networks.

The airport is open seven days a week with frequent services from Ryanair to and from London Stansted. The recently refurbished terminal is small but adequate and enjoys free short term parking or car rental facilities. You are just five minutes from the A10 motorway with its links to Paris and the north or to Bordeaux and the south.

Although Tours Airport is a good option Angers, Nantes and Poitiers (if you are visiting Southern Touraine) plus new flights into La Rochelle and Angouleme offer alternative routes to access the pleasures of this area. Both rail and road links are excellent between all these destinations.

The restaurant, which we have tried, offers quality food at a good and price although the staff can be a little overwhelmed at times.

It is around 20 minutes drive from Tours Val de Loire Airport to Tours city centre railway and bus stations and a similar time to the TGV train station at St Pierre des Corps in the city suburbs. As of October, 2015, there is no shuttle bus service between the bus station and the airport. If you are not driving or taking a taxi you now need to take tram Line A: from "terminus Vaucanson" which runs on a regular basis every day into the city.

Check out this blogpost for how to use the tram from the city to the airport.