Hello all-I have a dilemma of sorts with our plans to get from Paris to Normandy and pick up a rental car. We are leaving Paris on a Sunday and I already know we can't pick up a car on Sunday in Caen. My original plan was to take a train to Bayeux for the night (we are staying 2 nights) and then pick it up the car on Monday morning in Caen (train to Caen). But we want to do a full D-Day tour on Monday so we won't have time to pick up the car before the tour starts. We can get the car in Caen on Tuesday, which is my current backup plan. I am wondering about another option which is to pick up a car at Gare Du Nord on Sunday and drive to Bayeux, bypassing Caen completely. We didn't necessarily want to drive in Paris, but am now considering it as we already have plans to go to Gare Du Nord around 11 am to drop off a family member for a Eurostar train, so it may make sense to just get it there, plus its a Sunday so traffic won't be as bad, possibly. There will be 3 of us in the car, the cost of a rental car is not that much different for Gare Du Nord pickup vs Caen. Has anyone done this drive and is it awful? I know the train is faster but maybe the drive would be nice once we left Paris proper, and we could stop somewhere along the way. RS/France experts-what would you do? Train to Normandy or drive? My Thanks!
(We are getting a car so we can go to Mont St Michel and Loire after Normandy)