Lorient South Brittany Airport (LRT) serves Lorient, a port city on France's southern Brittany coast built around a former submarine base, and a rental car makes it easy to reach the string of coastal towns, megalithic sites and peninsulas that make this stretch of the Atlantic coast so distinctive. The airport is a small regional facility a short drive from central Lorient, with counters from international and local rental companies, and the modest passenger volumes here typically mean a quick pickup process compared with larger French hubs.
From LRT, the Quiberon peninsula, known for its dramatic Cote Sauvage coastline and ferry connections to Belle-Ile, is roughly an hour's drive south along coastal and connecting roads. The megalithic alignments at Carnac, one of the most significant prehistoric sites in Europe, lie along a similar route, also around forty-five minutes to an hour away. Heading the other direction, the historic walled city of Vannes sits roughly forty-five minutes east along the Gulf of Morbihan, a scenic drive past inlets and small harbor towns typical of this part of Brittany.
Driving is on the right throughout France, and Brittany's roads are generally well maintained, with a mix of free expressways and the standard French autoroute network further inland, where tolls apply at booths on the main north-south and east-west corridors; the coastal routes around Lorient itself are largely toll-free. Terrain here is gentle rather than mountainous, but coastal roads can be narrow and busy in high summer when Breton beach towns fill with visitors, so allow extra time for local traffic around Quiberon and Carnac in July and August. Fuel stations are frequent throughout this well-populated corner of Brittany, and Atlantic weather can turn quickly, so checking conditions before a coastal drive is a reasonable habit, particularly outside the summer months when wind and rain off the ocean are more frequent visitors.