Look out for TGV trains with idTGV carriages. These privately-owned carriages attached to normal TGV trains offer you a choice of travelling in ZEN or LIVELY style.

For those who want to relax, choose the Zen carriages, no noise and not too bright. For the funkier at heart, choose the idZap carriages, where you can play games, rent videos or even go and listen to the live DJ in the bar. And if you book early enough you can travel first class for as little as 49€!

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Avignon’s new TGV station, built in 2001, is a must see for fans of modern architecture. Light and airy, it is also cleverly designed so as to protect travellers from the blistering sun on hot summer days. I never fail to marvel at it every time I pass through… the magic of rail travel is indeed alive and well!

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That high-pitched noise you keep hearing everywhere as you get off the train isn't something wrong with your mobile phone, it's the cicadas!

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On Wagon Lits service avoid the couchette and book a 3 person cabin. This will easily suffice a family of 4, as the 2nd child can sleep in the luggage rack. Greater privacy and as comfortable as the beds. (yes, that says little about the bed comfort, but.......)

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The great joy of travelling to Avignon by Eurostar/TGV is to see France changing from a northern European country, to a southern one, before your very eyes. TGVs are two storey trains and I would suggest trying to book an upstairs seat to have the best views. A simple map of France is useful, to identify the regions and places, as you whiz through them. When you get to Avignon, you will find the TGV station is outside the town, but regular buses go to the centre, stopping near the SNCF station.

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When booking car hire make sure you specify which Avignon station you are alighting from. There are two stations in Avignon - Avignon TGV and Avignon Sud. Confusingly, some TGVs stop at both and it's a long wait for a bus or an expensive taxi ride if you get the wrong one (coupled with an over-tired and hungry family left fuming at the station). I strongly recommend you get the right one!

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On the Compagnie des Wagons-Lits service, avoid the couchette and book a three-person cabin. This will easily suffice a family of four, as the second child can sleep in the luggage rack. Greater privacy and as comfortable as the beds (yes, that says little about the bed comfort, but ...).

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The great joy of travelling to Avignon by Eurostar/TGV is to see France changing from a northern European country, to a southern one, before your very eyes.

TGVs are two storey trains and I would suggest trying to book an upstairs seat to have the best views. A simple map of France is useful, to identify the regions and places as you whiz through them. When you get to Avignon you will find the TGV station is outside the town, but regular buses go to the centre, stopping near the SNCF station.

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When booking car hire, make sure you specify which Avignon station you are alighting from. There are two stations in Avignon - Avignon TGV and Avignon Sud. Confusingly, some TGVs stop at both and it's a long wait for a bus, or an expensive taxi ride, if you get the wrong one. Coupled with an over-tired and hungry family left fuming at the station, I strongly recommend you get the right one!

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