How do you organise several city stops on one France itinerary?
Plan a multi-city France itinerary leg by leg, with separate rail handoffs, arrival addresses and return journeys.
A France trip can land in Paris, continue south by rail and finish with a flight from another region. Build the itinerary around fixed tickets and appointments. Add each road leg once you know where it begins, where it ends and who needs to be there.
Treat the journey as a sequence of decisions
Use the first flight and the final departure as the outer boundaries. Fill in the stays between them using their actual municipalities and check-in instructions. The destinations by airport hub lets you separate a Paris arrival from a Mediterranean or southwest gateway.
Give every stop a job
Label a stop as a train connection, bag drop, key handover or meeting. A city name alone will not explain why people need to arrive there. On the Marseille Airport to Aix-en-Provence leg, check whether the address is in the city or belongs to Aix TGV. For Nice Airport to Cannes, check whether the venue or accommodation is first.
Copy only the dependencies you need
When sharing plans with the desk, show which legs are already fixed and which dates or addresses are still being discussed. If two people leave the group midway through, remove their bags and seats from the later count. This also helps when travellers have different return flights.
Make one row for each movement
- Local date and purpose of this leg.
- Exact pickup and drop-off, with an entrance if known.
- People and luggage on the leg.
- The rail, flight or appointment the movement depends on.
Check the final leg in the France airport route index and put the return date on its own line.
Send the itinerary to the France desk
Give the proposed date, the actual pickup point and the destination you need.