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The
Lyon-St Exupery international airport
(tel 04.72.22.72.21) and the new
TGV station
are off the Grenoble
autoroute
, 20km to the southeast of the city, with a 45-minute Satobus bus link to the town centre (50F/e¬7.53). The Paris to Lyon trip is actually quicker by TGV, but it's only from the air that you can appreciate architect Santiago Calatrava's design of a huge bird alighting or taking flight from the station roof.
Central Lyon has two train stations: the
Gare de Perrache
on the Presqu'A®le is used mainly for ordinary trains rather than TGVs, and has the
gare routiEre
alongside;
La Part-Dieu TGV station
is in the 3e
arrondissement
to the east of the Presqu'A®le. Central Lyon is linked to the suburbs by a modern, efficient and driverless
metro
, as well as a new
tram
system.
There's a
Bureau d'Information
in the Centre Perrache at the station (July & Aug Mon-Fri 7.30am-6.30pm, Sat 9am-5pm;
www.tcl.fr
), where you can pick up a metro, tram, bus and funicular map; it's just two stops on the metro to place Bellecour, where the
central tourist office
stands on the southeast corner (daily 10am-6pm; tel 04.72.77.69.69,
www.lyon-france.com
). There is another office at 3 av Aristide-Briand in Villeurbanne (Mon-Fri 9.30am-5pm, Sat 9am-5pm; tel 04.78.68.13.20).
At metro stations or the city transport TCL offices, the cheapest way to buy
tickets
is in a carnet of ten (68F/e¬10.37, discounts for students), or there's the
Ticket Liberte
, valid for 24 hours (24F/e¬3.66). The ordinary tickets (8F/e¬1.22) are flat-rate within an hour's duration and limited to three changes using any combination of transport. The metro runs from 5am to around midnight. Many bus lines close around 8pm.
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