Car rental for Lourdes runs through Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrenees Airport (LDE), where the airport's own site lists five rental brands: Avis, Enterprise and Sixt at arrivals level, with Europcar and Hertz based on the car park outside. The airport sits about 10 kilometres from the sanctuaries, and demand follows the pilgrimage calendar - Easter to October is the busy season, peaking around the major feast days, when flights and fleets fill early. A car is optional for the sanctuary itself but transforms the surrounding Pyrenees: Gavarnie's glacial cirque, the Col du Tourmalet, the Pic du Midi cable car at La Mongie and the caves at Betharram are all easy day trips, and winter renters heading for the ski stations should ask for winter equipment.
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