Navette Aéroport to Gare Sud and Hôtel DieuorBus 38 to Pirmil, then tram 3 or 2?

NA · Naolib (Semitan, for Nantes Métropole)Navette Aéroport to Gare Sud and Hôtel Dieu

From

The Navette Aéroport stop on the forecourt outside the terminal, beside its ticket machine

To

Hôtel Dieu, in the middle of the city a short walk from Commerce, via Gare Sud (the bus station beside the railway station, 18 minutes) and Lieu Unique for the Cité des Congrès

Luggage

Made for travellers with luggage: everything you carry rides with you at no charge.

Runs

05:15–00:00

Journey

21–24 min

It needs its own EUR 10 ticket: the EUR 1.80 ticket, the 24-hour ticket and the monthly passes are all refused on the shuttle, though the shuttle ticket is good for an hour on the rest of the network.

Bus 38 and the tram reach the same centre from the same forecourt for EUR 1.80 in about 40 minutes with one change. The shuttle buys about twenty minutes, a seat and room for the bags, for EUR 10 a head.

Every 20 minutes from April to October, every 30 from November to March; the timetable is the same seven days a week, and nothing runs on 1 May.

The last shuttle leaves the airport at 00:00 and reaches Hôtel Dieu at 00:21; the first is 05:15. A flight landing after midnight has no bus at all until 05:15.

Since 30 March 2026 the town-side stop is at the bus station beside the railway station, not at the old Gare Sud stop; for the way back, go through the bus-station building to quai A.

Navette Aéroport to Gare Sud and Hôtel Dieu: price for every party size

38→3/2 · Naolib (Semitan, for Nantes Métropole)Bus 38 to Pirmil, then tram 3 or 2

From

The bus stop on the forecourt outside the terminal, the same stop as the shuttle, any bus 38 signed Greneraie

To

Commerce, the tram hub in the middle of the city — bus 38 to Pirmil in 20 to 25 minutes, then tram 3 (or tram 2 from the same stop) six stops on to Hôtel Dieu and Commerce in 10 to 11

Luggage

A city bus and a tram, with one change: no racks, bags ride with you twice.

Runs

06:10–23:13

Journey

30–36 min

Change at Pirmil, as the network's own directions say: every 38 stops there, and both tram 3 and tram 2 call there on their way into the city. The 38 no longer goes to Neustrie, whatever an older guide says; the airport's own page warns of it.

Weekdays it is a real service, every 12 to 20 minutes; at weekends it thins to every 30 minutes on Saturday and once an hour on Sunday, when the first bus is 07:00. With a Sunday flight the shuttle's 20-minute headway may be worth the EUR 10.

Buy before boarding or bring coins: the bus driver sells only a EUR 2.50 single in cash, and the shuttle ticket machine by the stop sells the EUR 1.80 ticket too. Validate on the bus and again on the tram, within the hour.

Tram 2 also runs Pirmil to Commerce, so take whichever comes first towards the city; for Gare de Nantes stay on tram 3 or 2 to Commerce and change to tram 1 for Gare Nord, or take the shuttle instead.

The last bus 38 that still meets a tram into town leaves the airport at 23:13 (23:22 on Sunday) and reaches Commerce at 23:45 (00:00 Sunday). After that only the shuttle runs, until 00:00.

Bus 38 to Pirmil, then tram 3 or 2: price for every party size