By Bus (Illenoo)
Illenoo (http://www.iva-transport.fr/) is a public service of the Conseil général d'Ille & Vilaine Département level. It allows people to travel within the département and a little bit outside on 18 lines for a good price. For example, Rennes - St Malo â¬4.80 return for students under 26.You can also go to Mont St Michel from Rennes, with regional bus line (http://www.destination-mo...). It is an express line, it takes 1h20 to go. Bus stop is in Bus station in Rennes next to train station, and the stop in Mont St Michel is a the foot of Mont St Michel.
By bike
Rennes offers very good options for cyclists. With plenty of cycle lanes, the town has plenty of cyclists. For residents of the town and tourists, bikes known as the LE vélo STAR (http://www.levelostar.fr), can be borrowed from 81 stations all over the town. These bikes are not particularly good, but they work and have three gears, so its worth checking them out. You can buy a 1-day or 7-day-registration on the website or at ten stations in the centre pay with your credit card for â¬1 or â¬5, respectively. Once registered, you can get a bike as often as you want from any station by typing your personal account number and PIN. The first 30 minutes of every rental are free, so the trick is to return your bicycle just before 30 min at the next station and immediately borrow another one.
If you are after a pleasant cycling trip, check out the canal route, which is flat and not very hazardous.
By car
Traffic in city center is heavy. Large areas are reserved for pedestrians and buses. Parking in the center is not free. You'll have to find an horodateur, never far away. Price will depend on the zone where you parked. 0,75 â¬/h and 2h40 maximum for green zone and 1,33 â¬/h with 1h33 maximum for red ones.Since 2002, the best way to discover Rennes is by metro and its parcs-relais. These are car-parks located in metro stations on the outskirts such as Kennedy, Villejean in the north and Henri Freville, Triangle and La Poterie in the south. They're free if you use the metro.
By Bus And Metro
Rennes has a very good public transport system, called Star (http://www.star.fr).If you're planning to buy a pass weekly or longer, you'll need to go to one of the two agencies Place de la Republique and Place de la Mairie) to get a "Korrigo" card. Remember to bring a picture for employees to scan. It is a free electronic card on which your pass will be saved. Once you have it, just reload it anywhere tickets are sold.Daily tickets can be bought for â¬3 a day, and are valid on both the bus and metro.Star claims that its network has the cheapest prices in France, with a single ticket valid for 60 min after validation for unlimited connections costing â¬1.30.
Rennes offers more than 50 different bus routes and a metro, with 1 bus every 5 min for the metro and main bus lines at the peak hours. The hub of the network is at Republique, which feeds most of the 50 different routes. This bus and metro network connects all parts of Rennes, and so you're never far from a bus stop. All the bus stops conveniently have a map une carte of Rennes with all the lines on, and a timetable for the routes it provides, so there isn't much chance of getting lost.
The metro, called the VAL, has only one line with 15 stops and is 8.57 km long. It runs from one edge to the other in 16 min. It connects the main train station to the centre, Villejean university, the hospital, the town hall and more. It runs from 5:25 to 0:30, like the five main bus lines.