If you’re flying here the best car hire deals are usually at your arrival airport, though there are some car hire companies in Foix and Pamiers. We’re an hour and a half from both Toulouse (Blagnac) and Carcassonne airports, two hours from Tarbes-Lourdes, and a bit over 3 hours from Perpignan.

To Toulouse: there are two or three Easyjet flights every day (winter included) in and out of Toulouse from London Gatwick, plus other flights from London, Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds-Bradford, Manchester, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Belfast, Dublin, Shannon, plus Amsterdam, Brussels and other European destinations.

To Carcassonne: flights from London, Liverpool, East Midlands, Glasgow, Dublin, Brussels.

To Tarbes/Lourdes: flights from London.

To Perpignan: London, Southampton, Dublin, Brussels.

There’s a daily sleeper train from Paris Austerlitz direct to Foix, leaving at around 22.00 and arriving at 6am (and back, at approximately the same times). Bookings open three months before travel.

Otherwise, travel by Eurostar to Lille or Paris, onwards by TGV to Toulouse, then change for the local line to Foix.