Departure Base

Discover all the useful information and advice related to your departure base.

Starting out formalities & boarding

LOCABOAT
Port Larousselle
3 rue de Courbiac
Saintes, FR 17100

✉: saintes@locaboat.com
T: + 33 (0)6 88 05 27 46
G: 45.753566, -0.630031 (enter address: 7 rue Courbiac )

Starting out formalities:

Departure days between 2 and 6pm.

Return day between 8 and 9am.

 Boarding:

As soon as the boat is ready.
On site:

WC and shower available according to marina opening hours.

  

How to get to the base

Access:

  • A10 exit 35
  • Saintes train station (2 km)
  • Bordeaux Airport (130 km)
 Car park:

  • Public, not closed and guarded : free
Car hire:

  • Avis (Saintes, 2 km) tel. : 05 46 92 19 19
  • Europcar (Saintes, 1,7 km) tel. : 05 46 92 56 10
 Taxi :

  • ROOS Taxi Saintes, tel. : 06 03 06 00 86
  • Taxi ROY Saintes, tel : 06 81 48 27 11

Hotels, restaurants and shopping facilities on site

Guest houses and hotels :

  • Hôtel Les Messageries – Rue des Messageries, Saintes, tel. : 05 46 93 64 99
  • Brit Hotel Bleu Nuit, 1 rue Pasteur, Saintes, tel. : 05 46 93 01 72
 Restaurants :

  • La Musardière (Saintes), tel. : 05 46 74 34 87
  • Le P’tit Bacchus (Saintes), tel. : 05 46 74 26 08
Shops :

  • Saintes city center (900 m)
 Markets :

  • In Saintes, Saint-Pierre Market (1 km) every Wednesday and Saturday from 7 am to 1 pm.
  • In Saintes, Saint-Pallais Market (1,3 km) every Thursday and Sunday from 7 am to 1pm.

Touristic Information

Gastronomic specialties:

  • Seafood, Charente melon, Charente cricket
 Local drinks:

  • Pineau des Charentes, cognac
To see:

  • The Gallo-Roman amphitheatre in Saintes
  • The Abbaye aux Dames
  • The Arch of Germanicus
 Fishing:

  • Fishing licence required: order online at cartedepeche.fr or buy it at the tobacconist’s in Saintes.
    Catfish, pike, zander, perch and black-bass.
Tourist office:

  • Saintes & la Saintonge Tourist Office (1 km); tel: 05 46 74 23 82
  

Information on the waterways

Waterways:
The locks are open every day at the hours indicated.
You can pass through the manual locks between 30 minutes before sunrise and 30 minutes after sunset. The Chaniers lock opens between 8am and 12am and between 2pm and 6pm. Most of the locks are manual and you operate them yourself. The Chaniers lock is electrically operated by a lock keeper.