Lovely town, beautiful beach, relaxing walk along the sea shore. If you are looking for a beach front (view of the port), a creative and excellent chef at very reasonable prices, I recommend this restaurant highly. Needless to say he couldn't resist the dessert a sabayon with salted butter caramel. My partner chose the rayfish which was cooked to perfection with capers and had fresh Granny Smith apples spread on the fish.
I chose the grilled bonito tataki with a sweet potato puree which was excellent. I forgot to take a picture of the menu of the day! Both starters were delicious! I chose the fresh oysters for starters with a supplement of 4€, my partner chose "gravalax de saumon" (marinated fresh salmon) with guacamole ice-cream and mango puree or chutney. Menu for 3-course at 28€ and 20€ for 2-course. We were warmly greeted and seated quickly explaining that they can move us in case it rains. The weather was lousy between dark clouds and rain we still wanted to be on the deck. After reading the reviews on this restaurant we decided to give it a go. We wanted a quick lunch as we had spa treatments scheduled at 2 pm. At the dock is also provided shoreside power.An absolute delight.
In 2019, Port Royan was expanded with a 54-m (177-ft) long pontoon dock and now can accommodate two ships simultaneously, each with max LOA length 135 m (443 ft). The itinerary is operated by the 2013-built ship Cyrano de Bergerac and priced from ~USD 1000 per person (double occupancy porthole cabin rates). The next table shows the ports sequence of CroisiEurope's 6-day cruise tour through the Aquitaine Region, Gironde Estuary, and Garonne and Dordogne Rivers. The ferry service (~20-min in each direction) provides passenger-car-truck-bicycle transportation across the estuary to the Medoc wine region.Īs cruise port, Royan was included in the regular 2020 schedule of one of Europe's (and world's) largest river cruise companies - CroisiEurope. Regular daily scheduled ferries (run by TransGironde) connect Royan with Le Verdon. Nearest international airports are Ile de Re (La Rochelle) and Merignac (Bordeaux). High-speed TGV trains link to Paris and Bordeaux (Medoc region). Royan is approx 65 km (40 mi) from La Rochelle (Charente-Maritime department's capital city), approx 100 km (60 ml) from Bordeaux, and approx 510 km (315 mi) from Paris City (France's capital). Today, Royan is a very popular resort vacation destination in France, visited each year by around 90,000 tourists during the summer season. This explains the current city's Modernist-style (1950s) architecture.
At the end of WW2 (1939-1945), during two air raids by British and US bombers (September 1944, April 1945) the town was completely destroyed. Royan is on the Arvert Peninsula (Bay of Biscay) and at the mouth of Gironde River estuary's eastern shore.
Royan is also a commercial fishing port with its own fleet. The yacht marina has the capacity to handle over 1000 vessels. Royan features a large, premium boat marina (used for berthing of sail ships, pleasure craft, luxury motor yachts, and mega-yachts) and all five large beaches (conches). Cote de Beaute includes a total of 8 seaside resorts - Royan, Palmyra (Les Mathes), Saint-Palais-sur-Mer, Vaux-sur-Mer, Saint-Georges-de-Didonne, Meschers-Sur-Gironde, Le Verdon-sur-Mer, and Soulac-Sur-Mer. Cote de Beaute (a portion of the French Atlantic coastline/southeast of Arvert) has Royan as its capital city. Royan is an Atlantic cruise port and seaside resort town in southwestern France (Charente-Maritime department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine region) with a population of around 20,000 (urban around 50,000).
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