Cheapest€31.53
- BlaBlaCar BB425906:318h 16m14:47BellevueRennes Gare Routiere
Door to door 9hCO2 17.1 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Saint-Etienne to Rennes bus
Buses from Saint-Etienne to Rennes start at €34.83 and take 9h at their fastest.
The Buses from Saint-Etienne to Rennes starts at €34.83 and takes 9h door to door, run by 2 operators over 632 km, with around 2 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.
- 9hDoor to door
- 8h 16mMoving
- €34.83From
- 17.1 kgCO2
The cheapest and the fastest on September 30, 2026
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Bus operators
Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
| Operator | From | Fastest |
|---|---|---|
 BlaBlaCar | €31.53 | 8h 59m |
| TER Pays de la Loire | €33.73 | 9h 5m |
The trip ends at Rennes. Everything past the gates belongs to somebody else, the rooms included.
A room in Rennes for the night the bus gets in
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When to book Saint-Etienne to Rennes
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €40.8890 days
- €24.9360 days
- €29.8845 days
- €27.1330 days
- €32.0821 days
- €38.1314 days
- €43.637 days
- €41.983 days
- €82.681 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €24.93.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 232 percent. The most expensive point is €82.68, 1 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
- €38.68Sun
- €39.78Mon
- €40.33Tue
- €41.98Wed
- €52.98Thu
- €38.13Fri
- €48.58Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Saint-Étienne
Bus
- Bellevue
- St-Étienne Châteaucreux Gare Routière
Rennes
Bus
- Rennes Gare Routiere
- Rennes
What the journey actually looks like
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
- Direct or connecting
- 43% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 57% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 632 km against 549 km in a straight line, a detour of 15 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Paris 15 Vaugirard, Angers, Lyon, Nantes. The gap between arriving and leaving is 47 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 20 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
- First and last departure
- The first service of the day leaves Saint-Etienne at 06:31 and the last at 06:44, across 2 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Buses against the other ways to make this journey
The same corridor, door to door, with every mode that runs it.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Train | 5h 39m | 4h 55m | 44m | €81.19 | 20.9 kg | 5 |
| Coach | 9h | 8h 16m | 44m | €34.83 | 17.1 kg | 2 |
Questions about Saint-Etienne to Rennes
The questions people actually ask about this trip, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.
How long does the Coach from Saint-Etienne to Rennes take?
The Coach from Saint-Etienne to Rennes takes 9h door to door, of which 8h 16m is spent moving. The route runs 632 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.
How much does the Coach from Saint-Etienne to Rennes cost?
The Coach from Saint-Etienne to Rennes starts at €34.83 for one passenger, checked on September 30, 2026. A typical fare is €34.01. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
Who runs the Coach from Saint-Etienne to Rennes?
2 operators run the Coach from Saint-Etienne to Rennes: BlaBlaCar, TER Pays de la Loire. Between them they file around 2 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.
Which terminal does the Coach from Saint-Etienne to Rennes use?
The Coach from Saint-Etienne to Rennes leaves from Bellevue and arrives at Rennes Gare Routiere. Allow about 44m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.
Is the Coach the best way from Saint-Etienne to Rennes?
Traveling from Saint-Etienne to Rennes by Train costs €81.19 and takes 5h 39m door to door, against 9h by Coach. Which is better depends on whether the money or the hours matter more on this trip. The comparison table on this page shows every mode side by side.
When should I book the Coach from Saint-Etienne to Rennes?
Fares for the Coach from Saint-Etienne to Rennes bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €24.93. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 232 percent, measured on September 30, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Coach from Saint-Etienne to Rennes produce?
The Coach from Saint-Etienne to Rennes produces about 17.1 kg of CO2 per passenger over 632 km, which works out at roughly 27 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.
What is provided on board the Coach from Saint-Etienne to Rennes?
Operators on the Coach from Saint-Etienne to Rennes publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 9h door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.
Where these numbers come from
Derived from service area No carrier record names this exact pair. The operators listed publish a service area covering both places at a distance their mode plausibly carries people, which is evidence that the corridor is served and not evidence of a specific service. Pages state which, because presenting the two as the same thing would be dishonest.
Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modeled number pass for a filed one.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon
- On this page
- Every figure above was computed for Saint-Etienne to Rennes on September 11, 2026: 632 km of route against 549 km in a straight line, 2 services a day, 2 operators, a cheapest fare of €34.83, and 9h door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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