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Lourdes'
gare SNCF
is on the northeast edge of the town centre, at the end of avenue de la Gare; the
gare routiere
is in the central place Capdevieille, and the not terribly helpful
tourist office
is in place Peyramale (Easter to mid-Oct Mon-Sat 9am-7pm, Sun 11am-6pm; rest of year Mon-Sat 9am-noon & 2-6pm; tel 05.62.42.77.40). Lourdes has more
hotels
than any city in France outside Paris. A good, comfortable hotel choice, opposite the food
halles
, some 300m south of place Peyramale, is the two-star
Hotel d'Albret
(tel 05.62.94.75.00, fax 05.62.94.78.45; 160-220F/€24-34), with the co-managed
Taverne de Bigorre
on the ground floor offering a range of menus (100F/€15.25 gets you three hearty courses), while
Hotel Majestic
, 9 av Maransin (tel 05.62.94.27.23, fax 05.62.94.64.91; 160-220F/€24-34; closed mid-Oct to mid-April), offers tastefully modernized rooms and decent home cooking downstairs, though it's in a somewhat noisy location. There's masses of cheap accommodation in the small central streets around the castle, while
hostel
accommodation can be had at the
Centre Pax Christi
, 4 rte de la Foret (tel 05.62.94.00.66, fax 05.62.42.94.44; closed mid-Oct to March), on the western edge of town. The nearest
campsite
is the
Poste
, 26 rue de Langelle, just south of the
gare SNCF
(tel 05.62.94.40.35; closed mid-Oct to March). Other useful information
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