Planning on a grand vacation to the French region of the Vendée? Keen on making the best out of the long trip to this wonderful country?

Whether you go by sea, by air, or simply by land, the choice is yours. Getting to your dream destination is a no-brainer.

If one is a lover of the ocean, she has only to select from the number of ferries going to the Vendée. There is the Brittany Ferries, which has regular trips to Brittany, Normandy, and Spain. The Portsmouth-St-Malo route has a nine-hour crossing time with an estimated three hours of driving time in France while the Portsmouth-Caen crossing takes a maximum of six hours. The other three routes of Brittany Ferries are the Plymouth–Roscoff, the Poole–Cherbourg, and the Cork–Roscoff.

Other ferries plying the Vendée include the P&O Shipping line serving the Portsmouth-Le Havre and Dover-Calais routes, the Condor, which plies the Poole-St Malo crossing, and the Irish Ferries with trips from Rosslare to Cherbourg and Roscoff.

The Celtic Link is also another ferry one could take from Rosslare to Cherbourg and vice versa. In addition, there are the Speedferries and the Superfast ferries, which are serving the Dover-Boulogne and the Rosyth-Zeebrugge routes, respectively.

All these for your exclusive picking when traveling to the Vendée by sea.

However, if one is going to the Vendée by land, one could opt for passenger train, a car, or even a coach.

For the passenger train, there is the Eurostar, which serves London (Waterloo)-Lille Europe direction; and from there, to Nantes for an estimated eight-hour journey.

One could also take the London (Waterloo)-Paris (Nord) to the Paris (Montparnasse)-Nantes route still for a total of eight hours’ running time.

Although there are no coach trips to the Vendée, the nearest being Nantes, Niort, and La Rochelle, many a visitors still opt to ride on one of these English transportations. Provided by Eurolines, coach travel from London’s Victoria Coach Station actually takes a whole night via Dover.

If you are planning to drive a car around or to Vendée, you have to know your way around. The roads on the way to the Vendée are getting better and better they say especially now that the A84 “Autoroute des Estuaires,” a passage devoid of toll connecting the city of Rennes by way of its harbors in the northwest, is now finished and ready for traveling.

Now, getting to Nantes and Rennes is going to be a breeze.

Further, from Cherbourg, one could take the dual carriageway under the eastern side of the peninsula of Cherbourg peninsula. Then, cut across country on an ordinary road via St-Lô and Villedieu-les-Poeles to link with the A84.

You could also opt to use the new motorway located south past Alençon and Le Mans to Angers and head toward Cholet and La Roche-sur-Yon, the charming capital of the Vendée. This is, however, a toll highway, nevertheless said to cut down the running time.

If these means of transportations are not your kind of a holiday trip to the Vendée of your dreams, there is always the way by air.

There are actually five airlines flying to the Vendée—GB Airways/British Airways, Ryanair, Flybe, BMI, and Aer Arran. All are known for quality of their service and affordable ticket prices. Be warned though that one should book at least two weeks ahead of her trip to the Vendée. These airlines are fully packed especially during the peak seasons.

GB Airways/British Airways has a daily flight, once daily anyway, from Gatwick to Nantes both ways.

Ryanair, on the other hand, fly the skies of London Stansted to Nantes, London Stansted to La Rochelle, and London Stansted to Poitiers three times a week both ways.

As for Flybe, it operates the routes of Southampton to La Rochelle and Birmingham to La Rochelle. Flights are also available for travelers from Norwich, Bristol, and Southampton who would like to go to Bordeaux, a village south of the Vendée.

BMI airlines offer flights to Bordeaux from Manchester daily during the months of April to September, while Aer Arran has routes to Nantes from Manchester and from Cork. Available are flights also to Lorient, which is advantageous for those intending to visit or leave the northwest Vendée.