{"id":1303771,"date":"2026-09-30T13:42:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T13:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/blog\/?page_id=1303771"},"modified":"2026-10-01T16:32:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:32:50","slug":"nantes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/blog\/europe\/france\/nantes\/","title":{"rendered":"Nantes"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":0,"parent":1302293,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"hw-hub-city","meta":{"footnotes":"","hw_hub_hero_eyebrow":"","hw_hub_hero_h1":"","hw_hub_hero_intro":"","hw_hub_hero_image":"","hw_hub_hero_overlay":"","hw_hub_hero_cta":"","hw_hub_why_title":"","hw_hub_why_body":"","hw_hub_why_link_label":"","hw_hub_why_link_url":"","hw_hub_why_cards":"","hw_hub_stats":"","hw_hub_countries_title":"","hw_hub_countries_intro":"","hw_hub_featured":"","hw_hub_regions":"","hw_hub_hostels_title":"","hw_hub_hostels_intro":"","hw_hub_hostels_cta_label":"","hw_hub_hostels_cta_url":"","hw_hub_hostels_source":"","hw_hub_hostels_location_type":"","hw_hub_hostels_location_id":"","hw_hub_hostels_currency":"","hw_hub_hostels_count":"","hw_hub_hostels_cache":"","hw_hub_hostels":"","hw_hub_when_title":"","hw_hub_when_intro":"","hw_hub_seasons":"","hw_hub_costs_title":"","hw_hub_costs_body":"","hw_hub_cost_rows":"","hw_hub_cost_note":"","hw_hub_money_reads":"","hw_hub_rail_title":"","hw_hub_rail_body":"","hw_hub_rail_link_label":"","hw_hub_rail_link_url":"","hw_hub_rail_image":"","hw_hub_routes":"","hw_hub_events_title":"","hw_hub_events_intro":"","hw_hub_events_source":"","hw_hub_events_continent":"","hw_hub_events_count":"","hw_hub_events_cache":"","hw_hub_events_cta_label":"","hw_hub_events_cta_url":"","hw_hub_events":"","hw_hub_events_pills":"","hw_hub_reads_intro":"","hw_hub_article_rows":"","hw_hub_show_read_time":"","hw_hub_all_title":"","hw_hub_all_body":"","hw_hub_all_cta":"","hw_hub_trips_title":"","hw_hub_trips_note":"","hw_hub_trips":"","hw_hub_faq_title":"","hw_hub_faq_note":"","hw_hub_faqs":"","hw_hub_cta_title":"","hw_hub_cta_body":"","hw_hub_cta_buttons":"","hw_hub_newsletter_title":"","hw_hub_newsletter_body":"","hw_hub_newsletter_shortcode":"","hw_hub_hub_term":"","hw_hub_scope_rows":"","hw_hub_country_hero_eyebrow":"","hw_hub_country_hero_h1":"","hw_hub_country_hero_intro":"","hw_hub_country_hero_image":"","hw_hub_country_hero_overlay":"","hw_hub_country_hero_cta":"","hw_hub_country_stats":"","hw_hub_country_intro_title":"","hw_hub_country_intro_body":"","hw_hub_country_facts":"","hw_hub_country_cities_title":"","hw_hub_country_cities_intro":"","hw_hub_country_cities_live":"","hw_hub_country_cities":"","hw_hub_country_trips_title":"","hw_hub_country_trips_intro":"","hw_hub_country_trip_types":"","hw_hub_country_do_title":"","hw_hub_country_do_body":"","hw_hub_country_do_points":"","hw_hub_country_do_tag":"","hw_hub_country_do_more":"","hw_hub_country_food_title":"","hw_hub_country_food_body":"","hw_hub_country_food_points":"","hw_hub_country_food_tag":"","hw_hub_country_food_more":"","hw_hub_country_nightlife_title":"","hw_hub_country_nightlife_body":"","hw_hub_country_nightlife_points":"","hw_hub_country_nightlife_tag":"","hw_hub_country_nightlife_more":"","hw_hub_country_transport_title":"","hw_hub_country_transport_body":"","hw_hub_country_transport_points":"","hw_hub_country_transport_tag":"","hw_hub_country_transport_more":"","hw_hub_country_money_title":"","hw_hub_country_money_body":"","hw_hub_country_money_points":"","hw_hub_country_money_tag":"","hw_hub_country_money_more":"","hw_hub_country_safety_title":"","hw_hub_country_safety_body":"","hw_hub_country_safety_points":"","hw_hub_country_safety_tag":"","hw_hub_country_safety_more":"","hw_hub_country_entry_title":"","hw_hub_country_entry_body":"","hw_hub_country_entry_points":"","hw_hub_country_entry_tag":"","hw_hub_country_entry_more":"","hw_hub_country_season_title":"","hw_hub_country_season_intro":"","hw_hub_country_season_note":"","hw_hub_country_season_rows":"","hw_hub_country_budget_title":"","hw_hub_country_budget_intro":"","hw_hub_country_budget_note":"","hw_hub_country_budget_rows":"","hw_hub_country_budget_currency":"","hw_hub_country_events_title":"","hw_hub_country_events_intro":"","hw_hub_country_events_source":"","hw_hub_country_events_country":"","hw_hub_country_events_count":"","hw_hub_country_events_cache":"","hw_hub_country_events_cta_label":"","hw_hub_country_events_cta_url":"","hw_hub_country_events":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_title":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_intro":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_cta_label":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_cta_url":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_source":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_location_type":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_location_id":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_currency":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_count":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_cache":"","hw_hub_country_hostels":"","hw_hub_country_faq_title":"","h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city guide","hw_hub_city_hero_h1":"Things To Do In Nantes","hw_hub_city_hero_intro":"A former shipbuilding city turned deliberately strange: a mechanical elephant walks the island, a green line on the pavement is the tour, and Jules Verne was born here.","hw_hub_city_hero_image":"1304180","hw_hub_city_hero_overlay":"light","hw_hub_city_hero_cta":"Where to stay | #areas\r\nWhat it costs | #money","hw_hub_city_live_stats":"1","hw_hub_city_stats":"12 m | The height of the mechanical elephant\r\n1828 | Jules Verne born here\r\nGreen line | Painted on the pavement, and the whole tour","hw_hub_city_intro_title":"What a city does when the shipyards close","hw_hub_city_intro_body":"Nantes built ships until 1987, and when the yards shut it had an island of empty industrial sheds and a decision to make. It chose art, specifically the large, mechanical and slightly unhinged kind.\r\n\r\nLes Machines de l'\u00cele is the result: a twelve-metre mechanical elephant that carries passengers around the former shipyard, a three-storey marine carousel, and a workshop building more of them in public. It is the work of a company that started in street theatre and it is unlike anything else in Europe.\r\n\r\nThe city also runs Le Voyage \u00e0 Nantes, a green line painted on the pavement linking artworks and buildings across the centre \u2014 follow it and you have done the tour.\r\n\r\nNantes was the historic capital of Brittany, which it will remind you of, and administratively is not in Brittany, which it will also remind you of.\r\n\r\nIt was France's largest slave trading port, and the memorial on the quay addresses that directly. Two days.","hw_hub_city_facts":"Getting in | TGV from Paris 2 hours, \u20ac25\u201370. Airport shuttle 20 minutes, about \u20ac10\r\nGetting around | Trams about \u20ac1.90. The centre is flat and walkable\r\nCurrency | Euro\r\nThe green line | Painted on the pavement. Follow it for the self-guided city tour\r\nThe elephant | Rides sell out. Book Les Machines ahead in summer\r\nTipping | Service is included. Rounding up is plenty","hw_hub_city_areas_title":"Where to stay","hw_hub_city_areas_intro":"A flat centre with the island and the shipyards just across the water.","hw_hub_city_areas_map":"1","hw_hub_city_areas_zoom":"13","hw_hub_city_hostels_pins":"1","hw_hub_city_areas_live":"","hw_hub_city_areas":"Centre and Bouffay | First-timers | The medieval quarter and the castle: bars, restaurants, trams and most of the beds. | 47.2160 | -1.5530 |  | \n\u00cele de Nantes | The Machines | The island across the water: the elephant, the shipyard sheds, the carousel and the riverside. | 47.2050 | -1.5600 |  | \nGraslin and \u00cele Feydeau | Handsome and central | West: the opera house, the Passage Pommeraye and the eighteenth-century shipowners' houses. | 47.2130 | -1.5620 |  | \nHauts-Pav\u00e9s and the university | Students and value | North: cheaper beds, student bars and a short tram into the centre. | 47.2250 | -1.5570 |  | ","hw_hub_city_itin_title":"How long have you got?","hw_hub_city_itin_intro":"The routes we would walk, in the order we would walk them.","hw_hub_city_itin":"","hw_hub_city_do_title":"Things to do in Nantes","hw_hub_city_do_body":"Les Machines de l'\u00cele is the reason to come. About \u20ac10 for the gallery, about \u20ac10 more to ride the elephant, which walks a circuit of the former shipyard carrying around fifty people and sprays water at bystanders. The Marine Worlds Carousel is a three-storey carousel of mechanical sea creatures you operate yourself. Book ahead in summer.\r\n\r\nThe Ch\u00e2teau des Ducs de Bretagne is free to walk into and about \u20ac9 for the museum inside, which covers the city's history including its central role in the Atlantic slave trade.\r\n\r\nThe M\u00e9morial de l'Abolition de l'Esclavage on the quay is free, underground, and one of the more serious pieces of public memory in France \u2014 Nantes was the country's largest slave trading port.\r\n\r\nFollow the green line. It is painted on the pavement, runs about twelve kilometres, and links the artworks and buildings worth seeing.\r\n\r\nThe Passage Pommeraye, an 1843 shopping arcade over three levels connected by a grand staircase, is free and remarkable.","hw_hub_city_do_points":"Les Machines de l'\u00cele | About \u20ac10, plus \u20ac10 to ride the elephant\r\nThe green line | Free, twelve kilometres, and the whole tour\r\nM\u00e9morial de l'Abolition | Free, and seriously done\r\nPassage Pommeraye | Free. An 1843 arcade over three levels","hw_hub_city_do_tag":"things-to-do","hw_hub_city_do_more":"All things to do in Nantes","hw_hub_city_free_title":"Free things to do in Nantes","hw_hub_city_free_body":"The green line is free and is the best way to see the city \u2014 follow it and it takes you past everything worth a look.\r\n\r\nThe Ch\u00e2teau des Ducs courtyard and ramparts are free to walk, with only the museum charged.\r\n\r\nThe M\u00e9morial de l'Abolition de l'Esclavage on the quay is free.\r\n\r\nThe \u00cele de Nantes outdoor works cost nothing: the shipyard cranes, the Anneaux \u2014 eighteen steel rings along the quay that light at night \u2014 and the various permanent installations left by past festivals.\r\n\r\nTrentemoult, a former fishing village of brightly painted houses across the Loire, is reached by the Navibus river shuttle on a normal transport ticket.\r\n\r\nThe Jardin des Plantes is free and holds a set of oversized sculptures among the beds.","hw_hub_city_free_points":"The green line | Free, and it is the tour\r\nThe Anneaux | Steel rings along the quay, lit at night\r\nTrentemoult | A painted village across the river, on a normal ticket\r\nJardin des Plantes | Free, with sculpture among the beds","hw_hub_city_free_tag":"free-things-to-do","hw_hub_city_free_more":"All free things to do in Nantes","hw_hub_city_food_title":"Eating and drinking in Nantes","hw_hub_city_food_body":"Atlantic and Breton influences. Galettes \u2014 savoury buckwheat cr\u00eapes \u2014 are the everyday meal at \u20ac8 to \u20ac14, eaten with cider from a bowl rather than a glass.\r\n\r\nSeafood is the other strength: oysters, mussels and the Loire estuary catch, with a plate at \u20ac12 to \u20ac18.\r\n\r\nBeurre blanc, a butter and shallot sauce for fish, was invented in the villages just west of here.\r\n\r\nMuscadet is the local wine, a dry white grown around the city, at \u20ac3.50 to \u20ac5 a glass, and the good ones are far better than the export reputation.\r\n\r\nA lunch formule is \u20ac13 to \u20ac18, and the Talensac market is the best cheap eating in the city.","hw_hub_city_food_points":"Galettes and cider | \u20ac8\u201314, with the cider in a bowl\r\nMuscadet | \u20ac3.50\u20135 a glass, and better than its reputation\r\nTalensac market | The best cheap eating here\r\nLunch formule | \u20ac13\u201318","hw_hub_city_food_tag":"food","hw_hub_city_food_more":"All food guides for Nantes","hw_hub_city_nightlife_title":"Going out in Nantes","hw_hub_city_nightlife_body":"Bouffay, the medieval quarter, is the dense bar area \u2014 narrow streets, cheap rounds and a student crowd every night in term.\r\n\r\nThe \u00cele de Nantes has the more interesting venues in the old industrial buildings, including the Hangar \u00e0 Bananes strip of bars along the quay by the lit steel rings.\r\n\r\nNantes has a real music scene for its size, with Stereolux and Trempolino among the venues.\r\n\r\nA beer is \u20ac4 to \u20ac6.50 and cocktails \u20ac8 to \u20ac12.\r\n\r\nTrams run to about half past midnight, later at weekends, and there are around sixty thousand students keeping term time busy.","hw_hub_city_nightlife_points":"Bouffay | Dense, cheap and student-heavy\r\nHangar \u00e0 Bananes | Quayside bars beside the lit rings\r\nA real music scene | Larger than the city's size suggests\r\nPrices | Beer \u20ac4\u20136.50, cocktails \u20ac8\u201312","hw_hub_city_nightlife_tag":"nightlife","hw_hub_city_nightlife_more":"All nightlife guides for Nantes","hw_hub_city_transport_title":"Getting around Nantes","hw_hub_city_transport_body":"Trams cost about \u20ac1.90 with day tickets, and three lines cover the city. Nantes reopened the first modern tram system in France in 1985, which is why the network is as good as it is.\r\n\r\nThe Navibus river shuttle to Trentemoult runs on the same ticket, which makes it the cheapest boat trip in France.\r\n\r\nThe centre is flat and walkable, and the island is a bridge away.\r\n\r\nTGV reaches Paris in two hours at \u20ac25 to \u20ac70, and Bordeaux is about four hours across country.\r\n\r\nThe airport is 20 minutes by shuttle for about \u20ac10, and the city is a common cheap entry point to western France.","hw_hub_city_transport_points":"Trams, about \u20ac1.90 | The first modern French system, from 1985\r\nThe Navibus | River shuttle on a normal ticket\r\nParis | Two hours by TGV\r\nFlat and walkable | With the island a bridge away","hw_hub_city_transport_tag":"transport","hw_hub_city_transport_more":"All transport guides for Nantes","hw_hub_city_money_title":"What Nantes costs","hw_hub_city_money_body":"Good value. Dorms are \u20ac20 to \u20ac35, a lunch formule \u20ac13 to \u20ac18, and a beer \u20ac4 to \u20ac6.50.\r\n\r\nA day is \u20ac45 to \u20ac80.\r\n\r\nThe green line, the memorial, the quays and Trentemoult are free, which is most of a day.\r\n\r\nLes Machines is the main spend at about \u20ac10 for the gallery and about \u20ac10 again for the elephant ride, and it is worth both.\r\n\r\nMuscadet at \u20ac3.50 to \u20ac5 a glass is one of the cheapest good wines in France, because you are standing in the vineyards.","hw_hub_city_money_points":"Dorm bed | \u20ac20\u201335\r\nA day, all in | \u20ac45\u201380\r\nLes Machines | About \u20ac10 plus \u20ac10 for the elephant\r\nMuscadet | \u20ac3.50\u20135 a glass, from the fields outside town","hw_hub_city_money_tag":"budget","hw_hub_city_money_more":"All budget guides for Nantes","hw_hub_city_safety_title":"Staying safe in Nantes","hw_hub_city_safety_body":"Nantes is a safe city and the crime affecting visitors is petty theft.\r\n\r\nPickpocketing happens around the station, on trams and in the Bouffay crowds at night.\r\n\r\nBouffay gets very drunk at weekends in term time, which is the main source of trouble and mostly avoidable.\r\n\r\nThe Loire is wide, fast and tidal here, with strong currents and quays that run flush to the water beside the Hangar \u00e0 Bananes bars. It is not a river to be near after drinking.\r\n\r\nNantes has a long tradition of large demonstrations and they occasionally turn confrontational in the centre. They are announced in advance \u2014 if one is on, go around it. Emergency number is 112.","hw_hub_city_safety_points":"The Loire | Fast, tidal, with quays flush to the water by the bars\r\nBouffay at weekends | Very drunk in term time\r\nDemonstrations | Announced ahead. Go around rather than through\r\nEmergency | 112","hw_hub_city_safety_tag":"safety","hw_hub_city_safety_more":"All safety guides for Nantes","hw_hub_city_trips_title":"Day trips from Nantes","hw_hub_city_trips_intro":"The Atlantic, salt marshes and the Loire ch\u00e2teaux.","hw_hub_city_trips":"La Baule and the coast | 1 hour | Train, about \u20ac12 | A long Atlantic beach and a belle \u00e9poque resort, with Gu\u00e9rande's salt marshes and walled town nearby. |  | 1304299\nLoire ch\u00e2teaux | 1.5 hours | Train to Tours or Saumur, \u20ac20\u201335 | The start of the ch\u00e2teau country, with Saumur and Chenonceau within reach. |  | 1304300","hw_hub_city_trips_tag":"day-trips","hw_hub_city_trips_more":"All day trips from Nantes","hw_hub_city_season_title":"When to go","hw_hub_city_season_intro":"May to September. Le Voyage \u00e0 Nantes runs across the summer and is when the city is at its most itself.","hw_hub_city_season_note":"Average highs. Nantes is Atlantic \u2014 mild, wet and rarely extreme in either direction, with rain spread through the year rather than concentrated.","hw_hub_city_season_rows":"January | 9 | 2 | Mild, wet and cheap. Students in\r\nFebruary | 10 | 2 | Grey and quiet\r\nMarch | 13 | 3 | Improving. The island reopens properly\r\nApril | 15 | 4 | Showery and green\r\nMay | 19 | 4 | Very good. Terraces and long evenings\r\nJune | 22 | 5 | Excellent. Le Voyage \u00e0 Nantes begins\r\nJuly | 24 | 5 | Warm and busy. The summer art trail in full\r\nAugust | 24 | 5 | Peak visitors. Book Les Machines ahead\r\nSeptember | 21 | 5 | Superb. Term restarts and the weather holds\r\nOctober | 17 | 4 | Autumn and good value\r\nNovember | 12 | 3 | Wet and grey\r\nDecember | 9 | 3 | Mild and wet, with a Christmas market in the centre","hw_hub_city_events_title":"What is on while you are there","hw_hub_city_events_intro":"A summer-long art trail, and machines that keep getting stranger.","hw_hub_city_events_source":"api","hw_hub_city_events_count":"8","hw_hub_city_events_cache":"24","hw_hub_city_events_cta_label":"All events in Nantes","hw_hub_city_events_cta_url":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/events\/europe\/france\/nantes\/","hw_hub_city_events":"Le Voyage \u00e0 Nantes | Summer | Citywide | A summer-long art trail along the green line, with new commissions each year across the city and the estuary. |  | \nLes Rendez-vous de l'Erdre | Late August or September | River Erdre | A free jazz and boat festival along the river north of the centre. |  | \nHellfest | June | Clisson, nearby | One of Europe's largest metal festivals, forty minutes south of the city, which fills every bed in the region. |  | \nLa Folle Journ\u00e9e | Late January or February | Cit\u00e9 des Congr\u00e8s | A classical music marathon of short cheap concerts over several days. |  | \nF\u00eate de la Musique | 21 June | Citywide | Free live music across the streets and squares. |  | ","hw_hub_city_budget_title":"What your trip will cost","hw_hub_city_budget_intro":"Pick how you travel. Per person per night, in euros.","hw_hub_city_budget_note":"The doing line assumes Les Machines with an elephant ride. The green line, the memorial and the quays cost nothing.","hw_hub_city_budget_rows":"Shoestring | 20 | 14 | 4 | 5\r\nMiddle of the road | 32 | 28 | 5 | 18\r\nComfortable | 58 | 48 | 8 | 32","hw_hub_city_budget_currency":"\u20ac","hw_hub_city_hostels_title":"Where to stay in Nantes","hw_hub_city_hostels_intro":"A modest scene in and near the centre, at reasonable prices except during Hellfest week. Live from Hostelworld.","hw_hub_city_hostels_cta_label":"All hostels in Nantes","hw_hub_city_hostels_cta_url":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/hostels\/europe\/france\/nantes\/","hw_hub_city_hostels_source":"api","hw_hub_city_hostels_count":"12","hw_hub_city_hostels_cache":"12","hw_hub_city_picks":"Best for solo travellers |  |  | \nBest for a party |  |  | \nQuietest |  |  | ","hw_hub_city_hostels":"","hw_hub_city_faq_title":"Nantes travel questions","hw_hub_city_faq_note":"The ones we get asked most.","hw_hub_city_faqs":"What is the mechanical elephant? | A twelve-metre machine of wood and steel that walks a circuit of the former shipyard carrying around fifty passengers, moving its trunk and spraying water at bystanders. It is part of Les Machines de l'\u00cele \u2014 about \u20ac10 for the gallery and about \u20ac10 more to ride. Book ahead in summer.\r\nWhat is the green line? | A line painted on the pavement, running about twelve kilometres, that links the artworks and buildings worth seeing across the city. Follow it and you have done the tour. It is free and it is the single best thing about how Nantes handles visitors.\r\nIs Nantes in Brittany? | Historically it was the capital of Brittany, and the castle in the middle of town is the Ch\u00e2teau des Ducs de Bretagne. Administratively it now sits in Pays de la Loire, which remains a live local argument. Expect to hear about it.\r\nWhat is the slavery memorial? | The M\u00e9morial de l'Abolition de l'Esclavage, on the quay, free and largely underground. Nantes was France's largest slave trading port and the memorial addresses that directly, as does the castle museum.\r\nHow long do I need? | Two days. Les Machines and the island take most of one, the green line and the centre the other, and Trentemoult is a fifteen-minute river shuttle if you want a third thing.\r\nWhat should I drink? | Muscadet, the dry white grown in the fields immediately around the city, at \u20ac3.50 to \u20ac5 a glass. The good bottles are considerably better than the wine's export reputation would suggest.\r\nWhen is Le Voyage \u00e0 Nantes? | Across the summer, roughly late June to the end of August. New works are commissioned each year along the green line and out into the estuary, and it is when the city is at its most characteristic.","hw_hub_city_cta_title":"Say yes to hostels, meet the world","hw_hub_city_cta_body":"Compare Nantes hostels \u2014 live prices, real reviews and free cancellation on most bookings. 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