We are planning a trip to Mont St Michel in May 2016. We are thinking of staying one night within the walls. The ideal thing would be to leave our bags in a locker storage and just take a small overnight bag to the hotel, so that we don't have to lug around with heavy bags up the hill. Does anyone know of any storage facilities we could use.
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Rick Steves' Europe
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That's a great idea. The visitors center at MSM (before going over the causeway, on the mainland) has luggage lockers you could use. Rick notes in his France guidebook:
On the mainland, near the parking lot's shuttle stop, look for the excellent wood-and-glass visitors center, which has slick touchscreen monitors describing the various phases of the causeway project, free WCs and luggage lockers, and information about Normandy and Brittany (daily April-Sept 9:00-19:00, off-season 10:00-18:00). The visitors center can be less crowded than the island's helpful official TI, which is on your left as you enter Mont St-Michel’s gates (daily July-Aug 9:00-19:00, March-June and Sept-Oct 9:00-12:30 & 14:00-18:00, Nov-Feb 10:00-12:30 & 14:00-17:00; tel. 02 33 60 14 30, www.ot-montsaintmichel.com). A post office and ATM are 50 yards beyond the TI.
Either office is a good place to ask about English tour times for the abbey, bus schedules, and the tide table (Horaires des Marées).