
SELF DRIVE RIVER BOAT RENTALS FROM Louhans
On Monday, the Louhans market with its livestock fair and poultry is a must. You will find many shops in the old arcades of Grande Rue. Louhans is the starting point for river cruises on the Saône towards Pontailler-Sur-Saône.
The locks are automatic or electric, most of them manned by lock keepers. The locks close the 1st may and the 14th july. Except on the Canal du Center where some are manual.
Recommended experience for navigation on the Doubs.
Between Saint Jean de Losne and Mâcon, docking at a pontoon or in a mandatory port. Otherwise you can moor on the banks, in the countryside.
- It is located in a quiet and shady environment near the city center and its multiple businesses.
- Intermarché, Carrefour, Leclerc a few hundred meters from the base
- Air: Lyon - St Exupéry Airport
- Train: SNCF Louhans station, Macon TGV station (57 km)
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