Private driver in Angers

Angers Saint-Laud station is about an hour and a half from Paris by high-speed train. It is a few minutes from the centre and the château. Your driver waits at the exit and takes you to your hotel, a wine estate or your first meeting.

Angers airport, north-east of the city, mainly receives private and business aviation. For commercial flights, Nantes airport is about an hour away by road; we meet arrivals and handle departures there.

The Château d’Angers towers over the river Maine with its seventeen towers of slate and tufa stone. It houses the Apocalypse Tapestry, the largest set of medieval tapestries to have survived anywhere in the world. Around the cathedral, the old town is best explored on foot.

Angers is also a city of plants, with its gardens, nurseries and the Terra Botanica park. On the edge of the city, the Cointreau distillery opens its workshops to visitors, by reservation.

This is where having a driver makes all the difference: a day of tastings cannot be enjoyed from behind the wheel. The appellations follow one another along the Loire and its tributaries, from the dry whites of Savennières to the sweet wines of the Coteaux du Layon and the fine sparkling wines of Saumur.

We plan the route with you and, if you wish, the appointments at the estates. Your purchases travel in the boot, away from the heat.

• Savennières and the slopes above the Loire
• The Château de Brissac and the Aubance vineyards
• Saumur, its château and its cellars carved into the tufa
• The Royal Abbey of Fontevraud

Angers is often one stage of a wider journey. Many international travellers combine the Loire châteaux with Brittany: a few days in Anjou and Touraine, then the road to Rennes, Mont-Saint-Michel and Saint-Malo. The same driver can stay with you throughout, with your luggage on board and no change of vehicle.

For business travel, we link Angers with Nantes, Rennes, Le Mans or Tours, and we meet your visitors at the station or the airport. Everything is handled in English or in French.

Two couples from the United States devote three days to Loire wines: a welcome at Saint-Laud station, two estates a day, lunch at a country inn, nights in a château hotel. A travel agency entrusts us with a six-day itinerary from Angers to Saint-Malo, with the same driver and the same car.

A company in Angers receives an executive from abroad: a welcome at Nantes airport, a day of meetings, return the same evening. A traveller with a passion for history wants to see the Apocalypse Tapestry, Fontevraud Abbey and the Château de Saumur in one day; it can be done, provided you leave early.