Nantes - Hitchhiking

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Recent reviews mentioning Nantes

47.24243, -1.67172

Good spot to go to Nantes

rating: 5/5, wait: 5 min, ride: 5 km ↘

―hirondelle, July 2025

We (20 y.o.) needed a ride to Nantes, waited on the side of the roundabout where cars can very easily stop securely.
We got lucky and waited no more than two minutes to get a direct ride nantes.

rating: 4/5, wait: 2 min 👍, ride: 253 km ↘

―DADABOSS44, Fri 25 Jul 2025, 14:00

47.47484, 0.77498

Great if you’re going to Bordeaux or Poitier but never stop here on your way to Nantes. Nobody stops here.

rating: 2/5, wait: 120 min, ride: 34 km ↙

―Anonymous, July 2025

47.18527, -1.5214

spot superbe pour quitter nantes direction niort/bordeaux. fonctionne hyper rapidement et les voitures peuvent s’arrêter facilement ! (parfois de la concurrence entre les autostoppeurs)

rating: 5/5, wait: 5 min, ride: 157 km ↘

―barish, June 2025

47.66482, -2.72601

spot pas terrible pour aller à nantes, il n’y a pas de places pour que les voitures s’arrêtent malgré beaucoup beaucoup de passages. ne pas se mettre sur le petit embranchement vers nantes mais plutôt au rond point au dessus (plus de passages donc plus de chances d’arrêt même si plus dangereux - cela a fonctionné pour moi il faut être très vif et être prêt à courir)

rating: 3/5, wait: 120 min, ride: 119 km ↘

―barish, June 2025

47.66784, -2.76969

je recommande pas forcément ce spot pour aller à nantes, la plupart retournent dans le centre de vannes. je pense qu’il peut fonctionner mais il faut être très chanceux-se !

rating: 3/5, wait: 120 min, ride: 4 km →

―barish, June 2025

47.77924, -3.34376

super spot pour sortir de lorient ! se mettre à gauche il y a de la place pour les voitures. demandez nantes ou vannes ça passe tranquille (avec une pancarte) 👍🏼

rating: 5/5, wait: 5 min, ride: 56 km →

―barish, June 2025

47.49684, -0.56488

Not the best spot, but still fine to go to Nantes

rating: 3/5, wait: 20 min, ride: 100 km ←

―Amaup, June 2025

47.66784, -2.76969

Objectif : Vannes - Paris. Sur mon panneau j’ai mis Rennes, vous avez aussi le choix de passer par Nantes. Ce spot est pratique car les voitures peuvent s’arrêter directement après et c’est une voie rapide juste après en direction de Nantes et de Rennes, donc cela augmente vos chances.

rating: 4/5, wait: 40 min 🪧

―EO, Fri 16 May 2025, 15:20

46.18198, -1.09143

J'ai pris le bus 4 depuis la Rochelle, je me suis arrêté au Parking relais et j'ai marché jusqu'ici j'ai été pris direct en arrivant avec un panneau pour nantes

rating: 5/5, wait: 1 min 🪧, ride: 142 km ↑

―Philtheo, Sat 19 Apr 2025, 12:55

47.64757, -2.70358

Lots of car passing by but almost no place to stop and be seen ! I didn't test the other spots to go to Nantes from Vannes but it still seemed ok enough.

rating: 3/5, wait: 20 min 🪧, ride: 116 km ↘

―GermaineBreton, Sun 09 Mar 2025, 15:00

47.77975, -3.34339

Lots of cars passing, not a lot of space to stop but that's ok. People here are great. I wanted to go to Nantes but I don't think it would have worked so I ended up in Vannes.

rating: 4/5, wait: 5 min 🪧, ride: 53 km →

―GermaineBreton, Sun 09 Mar 2025, 13:00

48.67356, 2.19166

On hitchwiki it says it is an horrible place, but everything have been remade here, so now the ring roundabout is a nice place towards Nantes/Limoges

rating: 4/5, wait: 25 min

―cabalkin, March 2025

45.85598, 1.24814

It is my place to leave Limoges, to Poitiers-Nantes, or could be just After the bridge also
There is space to park, but the spot is not a top tier one, still after you've left Limoges and Couzeix it will be easy

rating: 4/5, wait: 20 min

―cabalkin, March 2025

46.61763, 0.31235

Here is the place to hitchhack towards Nantes if you come from Limoges at least.
The last entry before it separates Nantes/Angers
Take every ride in the direction of Nantes, because after you've left Poitiers, the road is straight to Nantes, with nice roudabouts to hitchhack (until Cholet)

rating: 4/5, wait: 15 min, ride: 24 km ←

―cabalkin, March 2025

46.83284, -0.43512

From here on you're trip from Nantes to Poitiers really start, it finally become easy, every roudabout until Poitiers and even Limoges, is a nice place to hitchhack, i tried most of them.
Here there is a lot of space, the direction is clear, you may go to Parthenay, no need for a sign at all

rating: 5/5, wait: 10 min, ride: 33 km ↘

―cabalkin, March 2025

47.03578, -0.90561

Worst place in France. Cholet towards Poitiers is the worst ride i never did in France, i was there quite a lot of time but now i take BlaBlaCar to Bressuire cause here you will wait 30min if you're lucky, but it will easy go to 1 hour, my worse is 2h30 here, i know girls who waited more than 2h before give up here, and a guy who waited 4 hours.
The spot is not great but it is Ok to park, the problem is there are too much cars and most of them goes to Cholet center, maybe Nantes, La roche but not to Poitiers. So you're aiming to only a few cars in the whole lot
Moreover there are 2 entries to the national road on the same roudabout...

rating: 1/5, wait: 60 min, ride: 48 km ↘

―cabalkin, March 2025

47.18615, -1.46218

A lot of space to park, the problem is there is no good spot to go to Poitiers in Nantes.
From here you will certainly arrive (i did it a lot of times) in la Haye Fouassiere or Vallet, at the entry of the national road, witch are better spots than here but still it is not really good.
If you are lucky you may arrive in Cholet, but sorry, Cholet is the worst city to hitchhack, i now few people who've got their worst record of time waiting there (me too before it was beaten in Portugal)
After Bressuire everything will go easy to Poitiers-Limoges, from now i take a BlaBlaCar to Bressuire everytime (Cholet is a trauma 😂)

rating: 3/5, wait: 35 min, ride: 6 km →

―cabalkin, March 2025

47.25104, -1.51828

The classic place from Nantes to go to Paris/Angers
From here you certainly will arrive in Ancenis on Angers, could be through the highway or the national road
It always workt OK for me but i never tried the spots further on this road (this is the road you must hitchhack on to go to Angers, no other good choice)
It's not the dream spot, people can go to the commercial center, on in the ring, but there is enough space to park

rating: 4/5, wait: 25 min, ride: 97 km →

―cabalkin, March 2025

47.26246, -1.58346

Best place of France to hitchhack. Always a lot of hitchackers but they disappear before you can say hello, so easy to go to rennes (a bit too much of cars at rush hours). If you want to go to Angers, Vannes or St Nazaire, this is not the right spot (i'm from Nantes)

rating: 5/5, wait: 5 min, ride: 115 km ↑

―cabalkin, March 2025