Luggage storageNantes

Luggage storage at the station and airport

Nantes sits on the banks of the Loire in northwestern France, roughly 50 kilometres from the Atlantic coast, and draws travellers year-round for its château, its mechanical elephant and a busy airport corridor.

The airport has self-service lockers outside the terminal opposite Arrivals 1, open around the clock, with an L-sized locker costing €7.20 for 24 hours. The city's main railway station, Gare de Nantes, has no storage facility operated by SNCF itself, so anyone arriving by TGV or standard train needs to make other arrangements for their bags before exploring.

If you are heading to the airport, the Navette aéroport runs every 20 minutes from April to October and every 30 minutes from November to March, taking about 20 minutes between the station and the airport for a €10 one-way fare.

The airport shuttle serves Nantes Atlantique Airport, Gare Sud, Le Lieu Unique (Cité des Congrès) and the Hôtel-Dieu stop in the city centre. from €1.49 per bag a day

Some top Stasher locations in Nantes include:

• Restaurant, 7 min walk from Gare de Nantes · open late
• Local shop, 15 min walk from Place Graslin
• Local shop, 47 min walk from Boulevard de chaumont

You'll typically find a bag drop at restaurants and local shops. Every booking comes with the Stasher Guarantee, which protects your bags up to €12,000. Stasher storage in Nantes can be booked through the website or app.

Luggage storage and bag rules at attractions

The best-known sights include the Château des ducs de Bretagne, the Machines de l'Île with its Grand Éléphant, and the Memorial to the Abolition of Slavery. The bag rules at individual venues are worth checking before you go.

Les Machines de l'Île prohibit luggage in visitor spaces and provide no cloakroom or storage area, while the illusion Nantes museum has no lockers or cloakroom and simply requests that visitors avoid bulky luggage.

The Musée d'arts de Nantes is more accommodating, with lockers and a cloakroom, though nothing larger than 55cm x 35cm x 20cm is accepted. Stasher offers luggage storage across Nantes, which helps when an attraction refuses a suitcase outright due to size limits and you would rather not carry it back through town.

Getting around Nantes with luggage

The Naolib network, including the airport shuttle, uses low-floor vehicles, sliding doors and access ramps to facilitate accessibility for all users, including people with reduced mobility. On the Proxibus on-demand transport service, only non-bulky luggage is authorized, and a driver may refuse you if the item causes a nuisance or obstruction. Across the whole network, luggage must not be left unattended, and any forgotten bag is treated as suspicious under the Vigipirate plan. The station itself is reachable by tram line 1 from the north exit, or on foot from the south exit toward the Cité des Congrès and Le Lieu Unique.