We are a coach transport agency. We have been hiring coaches and minibuses to groups coming to the Fontenay le Comte area since 2008.
We will organise your coach hire from start to finish with great care to ensure your trip to Fontenay le Comte is a success.
Our team, Mrs. Coralie and Mr. Arnaud, is at your service to provide you with a quote adapted to your request for coach hire in Fontenay le Comte.
They include coach or minibus transport in the Fontenay le Comte area, fuel, motorway tolls, VAT where applicable and parking. When the service you wish to provide requires the driver to pay for meals and accommodation, we generally include these in our quote.
If an item is not included in our quote, this is clearly stated so as not to mislead you. Our offers are totally transparent, with no hidden costs.
We also hire coaches and minibuses with local drivers in other towns in the Fontenay le Comte area, such as:
Bressuire, Niort, La Rochelle and Lucon.
If you come by plane, we can pick you up in La Rochelle airport, Nantes airport and Poitiers airport.
If you are travelling by train, the nearest stations to Fontenay le Comte are Niort, Lucon, La Roche sur Yon and La Rochelle.
And if your trip has already started, we can also pick you up anywhere in France and take you to Fontenay le Comte.
Contact us now to get your quote quickly, using the short form below or by email getaquote@coach-hire-france.com.
We negociate the best service for your group, and not only the price ; we consider the booking process and quality of the coach as important as the price you pay.
Minibuses with up to 20 seats or 30 seats, coaches with 49, 53, 57 seats (sometimes even more), the coach companies we work with have a wide variety of recent and comfortable vehicles.
The minibuses and coaches we hire in the Fontenay le Comte area are generally equipped with air conditioning, a microphone for the guide, reclining seats and sometimes toilets (reserved for emergencies). They are recent and in very good condition.
The coach companies we work with are conscientious and comply with vehicle maintenance and inspection requirements.
Our company's name is Toursud. We are based in Meze, a small coastal town near Sete and Montpellier in the South of France.
Since 2008, we have been helping hundreds of groups every year to hire a coach anywhere in France. Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse, Lille, Strasbourg, Montpellier, Nice, Nantes, Lourdes... We work everywhere in France with local coach companies, including in the Fontenay le Comte area.
At Toursud, there are two of us. Coralie and Arnaud. Wife and husband. We have lived and worked together for many years.
We are fortunate enough to work in an idyllic setting: the sun, the Thau lagoon and the Mediterranean.
In such a setting, the motivation to satisfy our customers is easy to find.
Don't forget to read the reviews left by our customers at the top of this page. It's our best form of advertising.
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UK
We were very happy with the drivers and the coach – thank you. The drivers were on time and the coaches were nice. The coach on the return journey to Limoges was especially comfortable! Thank you also for all your help organising this so well. Your communication has been excellent.
Sept 22-25, 2023
Turkey
Dear Arnaud, Yes, we were very happy with the service. Both the bus and the driver were great. Once again thank you very much for this great experience. Take care and we keep in touch.
September 23, 2023
Ireland
Hi Arnaud \ Coralie, We have now returned to Northern Ireland it was an excellent trip to France and Belgium. I would like to put on record the excellent service provided by our driver Mishi. Timekeeping was without fault, we were able to visit all our chosen locations, his driving was superb. Many thanks again for all your work in arranging our transport.
Sept 15-18, 2023
There are a number of points worth knowing before committing to a bus hire contract.
In short, we're available 24/7 in case of emergency. We give our telephone number to everyone to whom we send a bus rental quote.
We'd like to point out that it's more convenient to talk to us by email: it gives us time to analyze the details of your coach booking file and offer you the most suitable response.
However, if you prefer, you're welcome to call us (in English or French) to discuss your coach rental project or booking. We are generally available Monday to Friday from 9am to 7pm (Paris time). You'll speak with Coralie or Arnaud, and we'll be your sole contacts for organizing your coach rental in Fontenay le Comte.
As the service you've booked approaches, we'll also give you a telephone number reserved for emergency calls at night. So if you need to contact us at night, we'll also be available to answer your call.
It's quite an art! A coach hire quote depends on a number of factors:
There are no hard and fast rules. The quote we send you is subject to the availability of the coach or minibus requested. This means that the coach company is free to hire out its coach to another group as long as you have not booked it.
But once you've booked, you can rest easy. The coach is reserved for you, and you can prepare for your trip in peace.
Simply put: first come, first served!
If you wait too long to book a coach, be prepared for the coach to become unavailable. And there's no guarantee that we'll be able to find another available company, let alone at the same price.
Every year, many groups contact us just a few weeks before arriving in Fontenay le Comte (sometimes just a few days before!). They have already booked their plane tickets, hotels, restaurants and shows.... and think that finding a coach will be easy. On the contrary, at Toursud we advise you to book your coach as early as possible, even several months in advance, so as not to find yourself without a coach.
Our customers often consult Google Maps to calculate their journey times. It's a good idea, but the same journey takes longer by coach than by car. To put it simply, if a journey by car takes 45 minutes, a coach will take around an hour.
Twenty minutes by car? Thirty minutes by coach. Two hours by car? Two and a half hours by bus.
Beware, these bases are not always exact: rush-hour traffic and traffic jams in Paris and the surrounding region have an impact on journey times. Rest assured, we can tell you how long your journey will take, although this is not an exact science.
For longer journeys, it's best to ask us, as we have to take into account the compulsory breaks that coach drivers must respect.
As long as you have not yet booked the coach, you can change the details of your journeys as you wish. We will update the quote if your changes affect the price of the services you wish to book.
If you wish to make changes once the coach has been booked, we will first have to check with the coach company whether the requested changes are possible. This is because a timetable change on your part may have an impact on services booked by other groups.
If the requested changes are possible, we will check whether this alters the advertised fare: we will refund you part of the amount paid if the service is cheaper or we will charge you a supplement if the service is more expensive.
Since 2022, the profession of coach driver has become less and less popular. Many drivers decided to change profession after the Covid-19 period. Today, coach companies are almost certain to have enough work for all their drivers every day.
There's nothing to stop you trying to negotiate, but given that the vast majority of coach operators have "too much work", prices are rising steadily and there are very few opportunities for negotiation.
Only large coaches (with 40 seats or more) are generally equipped with toilets. You should be aware that coach toilets are for emergencies only.
They are not designed to accommodate several people one after the other, for the comfort of the passengers seated near the toilets, but also for that of the driver. Put yourself in the driver's shoes: he'll have to clean the toilets after several gentlemen who had trouble keeping their balance when the bus was moving...
Please note that we cannot guarantee that the coach you are allocated will have toilets. Even if we know that the coach is equipped with toilets, the coach company from the Fontenay le Comte area may need to change the allocation of its coaches at the last minute to meet the needs of its schedule. For this reason, we cannot guarantee that your coach will be equipped with toilets.
It's impossible to guarantee that your coach will have 100% toilet facilities. That would be lying to you.
Finally, depending on the type of coach you need, please note that minibuses, school coaches and standard buses are not equipped with toilets.
Bus drivers usually take a break about every two hours of driving on long journeys. This may vary depending on the schedule or traffic conditions. This allows coach passengers to go to the toilet at freeway service stations or to stretch their legs.
When we send you our quote for coach hire in Fontenay le Comte, we'll take these stops into account to offer you the timetable best suited to your needs.
Ideally, the group leader should meet with the bus driver at the start of the trip to discuss the desired stops. Of course, if more frequent stops are required, you can let the driver know.
Finally, you should know that European coach legislation requires the driver to take at least 45 minutes break for every 4.5 hours of driving during the day (4 hours at night).
