Learn French in Tours: Accommodation

• Minimum age 18 years
• Single rooms
• Shared room (for couples/friends only)
• En suite rooms at extra cost
• Accommodation payment is made in Euros, once in France, not via CESA

Can be booked on a single or shared room basis (shared room only available if staying as a couple) on a half-board basis (breakfast and evening meal) with local hosts. Hosts live in apartments, some are quite central but most are in the residential suburbs of Tours.

Living with local French people is the ideal way to discover France and its people and to share its way of life. Even if your French is limited, chatting at the family dinner table remains one of the best ways of improving your comprehension and vocabulary. Also, you will discover the French mentality and of course French cuisine. The French school staff know that a host family plays a very important role in making your stay a success. Consequently, they very carefully select families to ensure that you have a warm welcome. They regularly visit the host families and it is their warm and caring nature which helps to contribute to the good reputation of the language school in Tours.

It could be a couple with teenagers, a couple with young children, a couple where the children are no longer living at home, or a lady in her late fifties or sixties, living on her own. If you choose to stay with local hosts, we would love you to tell us which type of host family you would prefer. The school will do everything possible to find a family that matches your requirements, so that your stay will be comfortable.  The school host families typically live in a residential area only a short distance from the school, some also live in central Tours but placement in the centre is not always possible. Families accept one or two students, but always with different mother tongues. You will be provided with your own bedroom and a shared bathroom (en suite bathrooms can be arranged at additional cost, when available).

Staying with a family starts on the Sunday before your course begins and finishes on the Saturday after the course has finished. Before you come to Tours, you will be sent the address, telephone number and e-mail address of the family you are staying with by CESA.  Your hosts will meet you when you arrive at Tours railway station if coming by train, or at Tours airport if you are coming from London or Dublin by plane.
They will then show you the way to school on Monday morning, so you can familiarise yourself with the route, or alternatively show you the route on Sunday evening (if they are working on Monday and can’t take you to the school in person).

You are very welcome to book your own accommodation in Tours if you wish.
The school does not arrange hotel rooms etc for students.

Arrive: Sunday PM
Depart: Saturday PM

Travel direct to Tours by Eurostar via Lille, and on to Tours/St Pierre de Corps or fly to Paris and then take the TGV (Paris Montparnasse) to Tours/St Pierre de Corps. Your hosts will then collect you (if you have booked private household accommodation) or alternatively take a taxi to reach your accommodation.

Easily accessible by T.G.V. (high speed train), Tours is:

• 1.5 hour from Paris Montparnasse
• 1 hour 40 minutes from Paris Charles de Gaulle airport
• 3 hours 30 minutes from Brussels