Car rental at Toulouse-Blagnac Airport (TLS) is exactly where the airport's own guide puts it: desks on the ground floor of Hall C, open roughly 7am to midnight, with Avis, Europcar, Hertz and Sixt all listing TLS locations and city offices covering later pickups. Toulouse itself - the pink city of Airbus and Occitanie - manages fine on its metro and walkable core, so the rental earns its keep on the region: Carcassonne's walled city under an hour east, Albi's brick cathedral an hour northeast, the Canal du Midi villages south, and the Pyrenees valleys about two hours away, where French mountain rules require winter equipment in season. Book ahead around trade-show weeks and school holidays - Toulouse's aerospace business traffic quietly absorbs fleets midweek.
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