NAVETTES - PROS AND CONS

Auxerre has a very good Navette (Shuttle) service around the town. It's a small minibus with a capacity of about 20 people. It takes a circular route every 15 minutes right around the town with a total round trip of about half an hour. The big advantage is that it's free, it's friendly and it passes within 10 yards of the boat. 

An Auxerre Navette

The disadvantage is that timing is not important! Every 15 minutes is often longer.....and the journey is very slow, stopping for every pedestrian and car and chatting, of course. It doesn't have many official stops but people just stop it anywhere along the route. You would actually be much quicker walking although it is uphill to town. You must never be in a hurry. And.......I forgot to mention, it stops for lunch for two hours which isn't made obvious but I suppose we should have known. But, all in all, it's a great service especially if you've got lots of shopping to carry and plenty of time.