Hilton Lyon {FRA} (no longer Honors)
Jun 13, 2006, 2:18 pm
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Originally Posted by DangerMouse
Exactly.. I was going to say - isn't there only one TGV station in the area? 
Jun 13, 2006, 2:54 pm
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Originally Posted by ContinentalFan
Thre is also a station at the airport, which is a 30 or 40 minute trip.
Jun 13, 2006, 3:11 pm
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Originally Posted by jacob_m
There is a station called Lyon-Perrache as well, but it's a small station and I don't think any of the TGV trains use it.
The TGV serves the main station and the airport. Paris/Lyon was the very first route served by the TGV in 1981.
Jun 13, 2006, 4:14 pm
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Originally Posted by ContinentalFan
The TGV serves the main station and the airport. Paris/Lyon was the very first route served by the TGV in 1981.
I think Lyon Perrache is only used by the trains that terminate in Lyon.
Lyon Part-Dieu is used by all trains that terminate in Lyon + the trains that continue to southern France (Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, Grenoble).
The TGV station at Lyon St-Exupéry airport is only used by a few trains per day, usually trains bound for the Alpes.
If a train stops at St-Exupéry airport it will not pass central Lyon (technically impossible, different lines).
I think Part-Dieu is the largest station in Europe, or so I read...
Jun 13, 2006, 4:25 pm
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Originally Posted by jacob_m
I think Part-Dieu is the largest station in Europe, or so I read...
I used to go to Part-Dieu every week and it seemed like a normal size big-city station with the usual front and back entrance. It does connect to a very large centre commericiale through.
Jun 13, 2006, 4:59 pm
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Originally Posted by jacob_m
The TGV station at Lyon St-Exupéry airport is only used by a few trains per day, usually trains bound for the Alpes.
Geneva is very convenient to Lyon.
Jun 13, 2006, 5:13 pm
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Actually Lyon has 3 TGV stations. Part-Dieu, Perrache and the airport. But the airport TGV only goes to CDG. It's really a majorly screwed up design due to politics. The people who live in that region of France cannot take the train to the airport.
Part-Dieu is closest to the Hilton but still a 5 minute taxi ride away.
Part-Dieu is closest to the Hilton but still a 5 minute taxi ride away.
Jun 13, 2006, 7:33 pm
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Originally Posted by stimpy
Actually Lyon has 3 TGV stations. Part-Dieu, Perrache and the airport. But the airport TGV only goes to CDG. It's really a majorly screwed up design due to politics. The people who live in that region of France cannot take the train to the airport.
Part-Dieu is closest to the Hilton but still a 5 minute taxi ride away.
Part-Dieu is closest to the Hilton but still a 5 minute taxi ride away.
Jun 14, 2006, 4:59 am
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To answer the OP's question, Lyon Part-Dieu is indeed the nearest TGV station to the Hilton.
If you want to use public transport from Part-Dieu, bus 47 should get you there.
If you want to use public transport from Part-Dieu, bus 47 should get you there.
Jun 14, 2006, 8:08 am
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Originally Posted by stimpy
But the airport TGV only goes to CDG. It's really a majorly screwed up design due to politics. The people who live in that region of France cannot take the train to the airport.
It looks like there's a bus from each of the city TGV stations to the airport once every 20 minutes, taking a maximum of 50 minutes (and only 35 from Part-Dieu). So the absence of a train link is not that bad. One wouldn't naturally think of city-centre -> airport as a TGV trip, even if there are places where that can be done.
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