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Avignon City Add-On

The City of Popes
 
Experience Avignon and its monumental architecture as an add-on to your Inntravel holiday in Provence or to break a long rail journey. Choose from two superbly located hotels, and enjoy a self-guided city walking tour (notes included).
Avignon City Add-On. 2 nights
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Avignon City Add-On. 2 nights
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Holiday information

 

Avignon

To visit Avignon is to follow in the footsteps of thousands of ecclesiastics, noblemen, scholars, merchants, artists and pilgrims who flocked to the city during its heyday in the fourteenth century. Back then, it was Avignon’s power and influence as the seat of the papacy which drew people from far and wide. Nowadays it is the monumental architecture harking back to that era which constitutes the city’s star attraction.
Though the papacy was ceded to Rome several centuries ago, the colossal popes’ palace and the neighbouring cathedral still have the ability to impress and humble, just as they must have awed visitors of yesteryear. Together, they dominate the skyline, presiding over a jumble of ancient streets peppered with churches and encircled by the old city wall, beyond which flows the Rhône, into whose languorous waters another key landmark, the Bénézet Bridge, juts until coming to an abrupt and premature halt.

Iconic monuments aside, this is, above all, the heart of Provence, where the stone buildings bask in the warm sunlight and life is lived outdoors, with cafés and restaurants that spill out onto pavements and squares.
 
Gallery
 

Sightseeing

The key to Inntravel holidays is flexibility. You can start on the day of your choice, and are free to add extra nights.
  • Notes for a self-guided walking tour included
    Choose to follow our notes for a self-guided walking tour of the main sights and lesser-known corners, or make up your own route through the ancient streets. The obvious place to start your explorations is the heavily fortified Papal Palace, whose huge proportions and magnificent frescoes leave no doubt as to the wealth and power enjoyed by the popes who had their seat here. You can see the tombs of some of them in the cathedral next door, before climbing the tower for superb views over the Rhône to the plain beyond.

    It was the Rhône which claimed all but four arches of the famous Pont de Bénézet (also known as the Pont d’Avignon). Whether or not you learned the song about it at school, it is worth strolling beyond the medieval ramparts onto what remains of it to see the mighty river up close.

    Having seen these three landmarks, you could head to one of the city’s museums, which include a couple of art galleries, but you may prefer to seek out the trompe l’œil portraits of popes in Rue Dorée; the beautifully carved wooden doors in the north-east corner of the city; or the 18th-century water wheels along the Sorgue Canal in the atmospheric, cobbled Quartier des Teinturiers (Dyers’ Quarter).
  • Barthelasse Island
    A good way to end your stay is to hop aboard one of the shuttle boats to leafy Barthelasse Island in the middle of the Rhône for a stroll along the riverbank or a drink at one of the waterfront bars, enjoying a different perspective of the city.
 

Accommodation

We offer a choice of two hotels, both ideally located for exploring the city. Please state your preference when booking.

We provide suggestions for where to eat out in the documentation that we send you prior to your holiday.
 
Prices
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  • Hotel de l’Horloge, 2 nights: 01 April 2020 - 31 October 2020

    Start any day | End by latest date(s) shown above

    Starting Add on 2 nights Single supplement
    1 - 8 Apr 2020 £156 £116
    9 Apr - 30 Jun 2020 £216 £176
    1 - 25 Jul 2020 £268 £220
    26 Jul - 27 Aug 2020 £198 £160
    28 Aug - 29 Oct 2020 £216 £176

    Includes accommodation and meals as described. No travel is included as it is assumed that you are travelling via the city as part of your main Inntravel holiday.

    Hotel Cloître Saint-Louis unavailable 2-19 July 2020 due to Avignon Festival.

    If you are flying via a different airport and would like us to arrange connecting travel, please contact us for a quotation.

  • Hotel Cloître Saint-Louis, 2 nights: 01 April 2020 - 31 October 2020

    Start any day | End by latest date(s) shown above

    Starting Add on 2 nights Single supplement
    1 - 29 Apr 2020 £166 £136
    30 Apr - 1 Jul 2020 £196 £164
    2 - 19 Jul 2020 not available not available
    20 Jul - 27 Sep 2020 £196 £164
    28 Sep - 15 Oct 2020 £166 £136
    16 - 29 Oct 2020 £130 £100

    Includes accommodation and meals as described. No travel is included as it is assumed that you are travelling via the city as part of your main Inntravel holiday.

    Hotel Cloître Saint-Louis unavailable 2-19 July 2020 due to Avignon Festival.

    If you are flying via a different airport and would like us to arrange connecting travel, please contact us for a quotation.

  • Room upgrades (£ per person per night)

    Hotel de l'Horloge, Avignon
    'Privilège' : 01 Apr - 31 Oct 2020 £18
    Superior: 01 Apr - 31 Oct 2020 £12

    Extra nights (£ per person per night) in a double or single room

    Hotel de l'Horloge, Avignon (B&B) Double room Single room
    01 Apr - 08 Apr 2020 £68 £118
    09 Apr - 30 Jun 2020 £95 £173
    01 Jul - 25 Jul 2020 £116 £214
    26 Jul - 27 Aug 2020 £88 £158
    28 Aug - 31 Oct 2020 £95 £173

  • Room upgrades (£ per person per night)

    Cloître Saint-Louis, Avignon
    'Exclusive': 01 Apr - 31 Oct 2020 £10

    Extra nights (£ per person per night) in a double or single room

    Cloître Saint-Louis, Avignon (B&B) Double room Single room
    01 Apr - 29 Apr 2020 £72 £132
    30 Apr - 01 Jul 2020 £85 £157
    02 Jul - 19 Jul 2020 not available not available
    20 Jul - 27 Sep 2020 £85 £157
    28 Sep - 15 Oct 2020 £72 £132
    16 Oct - 31 Oct 2020 £58 £102
    Hotel Cloître Saint-Louis unavailable 2-19 July 2020 due to Avignon Festival.
  • This information is for guidance only; no travel is included in our prices and you should pay locally for your chosen option.

    For more information about the airport, visit the Avignon airport website.

    Getting between Avignon airport/TGV and the city

    From Avignon airport Approx. duration Frequency
    Bus 20 minutes departures coincide with flight arrivals
    Taxi 25 minutes n/a
    From Avignon TGV Approx. duration Frequency
    Shuttle train to city-centre station (from where it is an 800-metre walk to the hotel) 5 minutes every 30 minutes
What is included
  • 2 nights
  • 2 breakfasts
  • street plan
  • notes for a self-guided city walking tour
 
Reviews

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All 5 reviews
  • TP, East Sussex
    02 September 2019

    Our fourth Inntravel holiday, with the usual excellent planning and information throughout the walk to the Pont du Gard, followed by an Avignon City Add-On. We had lots of glorious sunshine, due to the Mistral blowing the clouds away – although this did sometimes make walking northwards on high ground harder work! The only cold, wet weather coincided with a day trip to Nîmes, but the temperature also dropped in the evenings, so pack some warm clothes – especially as all the hotels serve dinner on their terraces (into September anyway).
     
    Highlights:
     - Lovely countryside, linking lovely villages and towns
    - The wonderful displays of fruit, salad and vegetables in the markets (why don’t hotels and restaurants make more of these?)
    - The Medieval Gardens in Uzès, including the 360° view from the top of the tower
    - The Pont du Gard itself, but also associated features along its length: the source in the valley below Uzès (we walked down on Day 1), the limestone quarries north of Vers-Pont-du Gard, the ruined sections west of the bridge and the Castellum, the end point, in Nîmes
    - The Palais des Papes in Avignon, including the 14th century tiled floor
    - Déclinaison de brandade for lunch at Halles Auberge in Nîmes – thanks to the Taxi Nabais driver for telling us about brandade being a Nîmes speciality

    INNTRAVEL NOTE: These customers enjoyed our Avignon city add-on following our To the Pont du Gard self-guided walking holiday.

  • Happy walker from Wales
    08 June 2019

    The holiday lived up to expectations we both loved it and would book a walking holiday with Inntravel again

  • Miss E Kent
    Doncaster
    08 June 2019

    We had a brilliant holiday and really enjoyed the walking. As for the hotels and service they were excellent. My person favourites were the Hostellerie Le Castellas and the Hotel de l'Horloge but that said they were all wonderful. We both loved Uzes and Avignon. 

    As for tips I would recommend to always stock up with snacks as you tend to arrive at villages when shops are closed. Also June is low season and you won't meet people along the way.

    We're booking another walking holiday next year.

    INNTRAVEL NOTE:  This customer added our extension at the Hotel de l'Horloge in Avignon to our To the Pont du Gard walking holiday.

  • Anon
    19 May 2017

    The shorter walks were not too strenuous, even at 30+ degrees. There was a good mix of hill tops, woods and fields. Flowers everywhere were spectacular, and the rushing water in Fontaine de Vaucluse was a real joy. Well worth adding a day or two in Avignon if you can.

     

    INNTRAVEL NOTE: These customers enjoyed our city add-on in Avignon at Hôtel de l’Horloge prior to Hill-Top Villages of the Luberon

  • Anon
    02 May 2017

    Two suggested restaurants - Le Chateau in Fontaine-de- Vaucluse and L'Epicerie in Avignon (Place St Pierre - popular with tourists but none the worse for that). Of the non-hotel restaurants Restaurant David in Roussillon was outstanding (although the shortness of the set menu meant that we had to have some repetition on the second night); Chez Dominique in Fontaine ok but food and ambience not as good as Le Chateau. 

    This was our 12th Inntravel holiday, and they've all been excellent, but our first visit to Provence, and we're wondering why we've waited so long. What people say about the quality of the light is true: even simple flowers like poppies and buttercups seem redder and more yellow. And Roussillon was a particular gem, with the ochre and the feel of an artists' colony. A memorable holiday as always, with the added fascination of seeing how people voted in the presidential election! 

     

    INNTRAVEL NOTE: These customers enjoyed our 2-night Avignon city add on after Hill-Top Villages of the Luberon.

     

      
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