Flights to Bordeaux: travel for cheap and take-off for the best price

Flights to Bordeaux: practical information

Cheap airlines to Bordeaux

Reaching Bordeaux from the UK is easy, thanks to its popularity and reputation as one of the world's leading producers of wines. There are direct flights to Bordeaux from London, Southampton, Bristol, Birmingham, Liverpool and Edinburgh. British Airways flies daily from London Gatwick but the cheapest Bordeaux flights are with the low cost airlines like EasyJet and Flybe. Bordeaux-Merignac Airport (BOD) is located just west of the city.

When to book flights to Bordeaux

[p]Summer is peak tourist time, so save by finding tickets from London to Bordeaux in the spring when the vines are just flowering or in autumn when the harvest is being brought in.

• Peak season: Christmas, New Year's Eve, February-March, mid-July to the end of August.
• Low season: October, when most wineries are closed to tourists due to the harvest.

Flight duration

Flights to Bordeaux take 1h 35min from London.

Experience Bordeaux: what to do, what to see

Essentials in Bordeaux

Wineries: Some top wineries to visit include: Château Haut Brion, Château Lafite Rothschild, Château Ausone and Château Cheval Blanc. If you're interested in learning more about wine and the region while visiting Bordeaux, book a tour with one of the wineries. Here's to a fantastic holiday in Bordeaux

Parks: The Jardin Public, to be more precise, is one park that should definitely be visited while on a trip to Bordeaux. It was founded in 1755 and is landscaped in perfect English style. There is also a Botanical Garden there which was created in the 1600s.

Pair-non-Pair Cave: Just north of the city is the cave in which an 80,000 year old man was found in 1881 by Francois Daleau. Classified as Neolithic, this was an important discovery for tracking the history of man. You can visit the cave and also see some of the world's oldest cave paintings here.

Find more information on bordeaux-tourism.com.

Accommodations in Bordeaux