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Luggage storage in Pau

Many visitors to Pau are staying in a holiday rental without a front desk, and a late flight or train can leave you with hours to fill, so it helps to know what to do with a bag.

Gare de Pau has no storage desk of its own, while some attractions accept only small bags or none at all, so storage is best sorted before you arrive rather than on the day. Pau serves as the prefecture of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of southwestern France. The city's best-known attractions include the Château de Pau, the Boulevard des Pyrénées, the Palais Beaumont, and the medieval quarter. The Château de Pau is a 10-minute walk from Gare de Pau, located in the historical district. With Stasher, you can store bags from €1.49 per bag per day.

Some top Stasher locations in Pau include:

• Postal service, 45-minute walk from Stade André Lavie

Nearby points are hosted by postal services. Every booking comes with the Stasher Guarantee, which protects your bags up to €12,000. Stasher storage in Pau can be booked through the website or app.

Luggage storage at the station and airport

Gare de Pau has no left-luggage facility operated by the station authority, so don't count on leaving a bag at the station itself.

Pau Pyrénées Airport is a 20-minute drive from the centre, with the Ligne 17 bus covering the same route in roughly 30 minutes, so you can reach the centre even with luggage. On Idelis buses, a hand bag or small parcel that one person can carry ride free, but anything with a longest side over 1 metre is refused — except narrow items up to 2 metres long and under 0.20 metres across, which must be held upright.

Bag rules at Pau's attractions

At the Château de Pau, suitcases and large bags are not allowed inside, and ordinary backpacks must go into the provided cloakroom. The lockers there take bags no larger than 44 x 44 x 44 cm, so anything bigger has to stay elsewhere. Le Zénith de Pau goes further: no suitcases at all, and no backpack or bag over 10 litres, though it runs a cloakroom for smaller items it considers prohibited or dangerous.

Getting around Pau with luggage

Folding bicycles count as luggage on the Idelis network when folded, so you can bring one aboard without a separate bike ticket. The Musée des beaux-arts is reachable on bus lines T2, T3, 6, 7, 9, 11 or 17, or the Coxitis electric shuttle, all stopping at Pau Bosquet.

If your bag rules out the château lockers and the station has no desk of its own, sorting storage before you arrive saves a walk across town with a suitcase in tow. Pau sits at the foot of the Pyrénées, with a panoramic mountain view notably from the Boulevard des Pyrénées. Pau has been the historic capital of the sovereign principality of Béarn since 1464.