A few details about coming to Chartres for Walking a Sacred Path

Travel Insurance

Veriditas recommends purchasing travel insurance. Click here for a link to Travel Guard, specializing in insurance for our Chartres programs.

Ground transportation

Most airline flights will arrive at Charles de Gaulle Airport, Paris, France.  You have a variety of options on getting to Chartres from CDG Airport.
  • Consider taking an UBER to Chartres. It has proven to be a convenient and cost effective option.
  • You can take a taxi to the Montparnasse Train Station and take a train (approximately 12 Euros) to Chartres.  Chartres is about an hour outside of Paris by train.  
  • You can make a reservation online for a car or small van to meet you at the airport and drive you to Chartres. 
  • You can also consider the option of taking a taxi all the way to Chartres, though the cost will be in the range of 150 – 200 Euro or more.  If several participants arrive at the same time, sharing a taxi will bring the price down.
Eating
Chartres is a charming, medieval village with many options for eating out from casual fare such as omelettes and soup to fancier formal restaurants.
Lodging
There are many places to stay in and around Chartres. If you are part of a Veriditas program, and wish to stay in the Hotellerie St. Yves where the programs are held, and it appears that the online housing registration is full, please call the office at 707 283-0373 to discuss housing options and/or to be added to a waiting list for the Hotellerie St. Yves , or email annika@veriditas.org. For a list of other Chartres hotels, click here.
Cash
ATMs are sprinkled through the village and are the best way to get cash. Be sure to notify your cardholder that you will be in France. The Euro fluctuates.  You can check out the exchange rate at http://money.cnn.com/data/currencies/converter/index.html
Weather
Other information
Link here for the Chartres Tourism office web site where you can find information about restaurants, shopping, local activities and events, etc.

Checklist for International Travel

Our thanks to Joy Michels for sharing her very thorough travel checklist with us. Please feel free to download and change/use to support your preparation for pilgrimage. Click here to download the checklist. (Please note that after you have clicked the download link it might appear that nothing has happened - a blank web page appears while the document downloads. The document should be wherever your downloads normally land.)
For general information about Chartres, France, click here

Safety Concerns while traveling:

As you probably know, the U.S. government is continuing its Worldwide Caution with respect to foreign travel in general. France is not specifically mentioned in the latest update. On a separate website, the U.S. embassy in France notes that the French government is continuing its reinforced security measures. The State Department provides a program for concerned travelers to receive security messages and make it easier to locate you in an emergency: see Smart Traveler Enrollment Program (STEP).