Four of us have a house exchange in September in Albi, near Toulouse. We want to fly into Madrid,visit for 3 days, travel to Grenada and visit for 3 days and then get to Toulouse to meet our exchange family. We stay in the Albi/Toulouse area for a month and depart out of Paris. I assume we will train from Toulouse to Paris at the end of our trip. How is the best way to travel from Madrid to Grenada to Touloouse? Train, plane, rental car, or some combination? Thanks for any suggestions.
Jack
Posted by
Boston
4132 posts
If you can afford it flying will save you a lot of time. Otherwise you've got a lot of driving and/ or a long train ride.
Posted by
Oak Park, Illinois
4535 posts
From Granda to Toulouse will almost have to be by plane. The train would be a very long trip. Renting a car would include a huge foreign drop-off penalty. You will probably have to change planes once or twice and may find a plane/train combo to work best. Like flying to Marseilles and then catching a train. For Madrid-Granada, there are daily trains. It's not the highspeed AVE but they are still decent trains. If you had lots of time and were willing to make a couple of overnights, you could drive and make stops along the way.
Posted by
Myrtle Beach, USA
12314 posts
You could also fly into Granada, then visit Madrid (I'm pretty sure a bus takes slightly less time than a train due to the routing), then move on to Toulouse.
Posted by
New York, NY, USA
11294 posts
If you are not actually planning to spend time in Paris at the end of your trip, but are just going there to fly out, look into flying out of Toulouse (with a connection to the US). Toulouse to Paris is about 5 hours by train, and flying out of Toulouse may not cost any more than flying out of Paris. Be sure to use the "multi city" (open jaw) option on Kayak or any other airline site (for example, Portland to Madrid and Toulouse to Portland). For flights within Europe, try Skyscanner.