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The
gare SNCF
is on rue Mazagran and has
bicycles
for rental - note that the station has no
consigne automatique
, charging a hefty 30F/a?¬4.57 for each piece of left luggage.
Buses
leave from the
gare routiA?re
, just off place de la BrA?che on rue Viala. The excellent
tourist office
on place de la Poste (July-Sept Mon-Fri 9.30am-7pm, Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 10am-1pm; rest of year Mon-Fri 9.30-6pm, Sat 9.30am-noon; tel 05.49.24.18.79,
www.ville-niort.fr
) has plenty of information about walking itineraries around the Marais, and offers a free room reservation service (tel 05.49.24.98.92); for more rustic accommodation in the Marais itself, contact Relais des GA®tes Ruraux, at 15 rue Thiers (tel 05.49.24.00.42).
There's the usual crop of
hotels
close to the station, including the
Terminus
, 82 rue de la Gare (tel 05.49.24.00.38, fax 05.49.24.94.38; under 160F/a?¬24), which is a decent budget option. More centrally, the
St-Jean
, 21 av St-Jean-d'AngA©ly (tel 05.49.79.20.76, fax 05.49.35.03.27; 160-220F/a?¬24-34), is another good bet for cheap, comfortable rooms, while several more upmarket hotels cluster on avenue de Paris, including
Le Paris
, at no. 12 (tel 05.49.24.93.78, fax 05.49.28.27.57,
www.groupcitotel.com
; 220F/a?¬34-400F/a?¬61), and the three-star
Grand HA?tel
, at no. 32 (tel 05.49.24.22.21, fax 05.49.24.42.41; 300-400F/a?¬46-61). The three-star
campsite
,
de Noron
(tel 05.49.79.05.06; closed Oct-Jan), is on boulevard S.-Allende next door to the stadium; bus #6 from place de la BrA?che. Two
restaurants
to head for are
Les Quatre Saisons
on 247 av de la Rochelle (tel 05.49.79.41.06; closed Sun), for traditional Marais Poitevin specialities (menus from 59F/a?¬8.99), and, for lunches,
SucrA©e SalA©e
, at 2 rue du Temple (tel 05.49.24.77.16), which specializes in tarts and crumbles
A l'anglaise
(from 69F/a?¬10.52). Other useful information
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