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Travel to Wales

Flying to Wales

Flybe, (www.flybe.com) flies to Cardiff from Jersey, Edinburgh and Paris, Bmibaby (www.bmibaby.com) flies from Edinburgh, and Paris.

Flight times:

Flights to Cardiff from Dublin take 1 hour and 10 minutes with Aer Lingus, and from Paris 1 hour 30 minutes with Flybe. Indirect flights from New York, via Dublin with Aer Lingus, take from around 9 hours 40 minutes.

Departure tax:

None.

Travel by rail

There are two mainline routes into Wales. One runs from London Paddington to Fishguard along the south Wales coast (branching at Whitland to serve Haverford West and Milford Haven), while the other links Holyhead with Chester and northwest England. In addition, the line from Cardiff to Chester (via Newport, Hereford and Shrewsbury) links the south Wales cities with Abergavenny in Gwent and Wrexham in Clwyd.

There are also two smaller cross-country lines: these run from Shrewsbury to Welshpool, Barmouth, Harlech, Porthmadog and Pwllheli; from Shrewsbury via Welshpool to Aberystwyth; and from Craven Arms (on the Shrewsbury-Ludlow line) through Llandrindod Wells and Llandovery down to Swansea. For details, contact National Rail Enquiries (tel: 0845 748 4950; www.nationalrail.co.uk).

Getting to Wales by boat

Fishguard, Holyhead (Anglesey) (www.holyheadport.com), Pembroke (www.mhpa.co.uk) and Swansea (www.abports.co.uk), all of which have ferry connections to the Republic of Ireland, with companies including Irish Ferries (tel: 0818 300 400; www.irishferries.com) and Stena Line (tel: 01776 802 165; www.stenaline.com).

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