Getting here

Picardy offers a well-developed communication network across its departments. You can either fly here, with many low-cost companies now operating to and from the region, but also drive here (an excellent motorway network) or use trains and buses operating in the region.

By Air

Beauvais-Tillé also known as Paris Beauvais Airport: Ryanair flights from Beauvais to Dublin, Glasgow and Shannon, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Budapest, Rome, Milan, Barcelona, Casablanca and many others. Paris Beauvais Airport includes low costs airlines such as: Ryanair (80% of the traffic), Wizzair, Central Wings and Blue Air, flying to a number of European cities.
Paris- Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport: Flights from all the major European cities with British airways, BMIBABY, Airfrance, City jet, Flybe.com and Easyjet.com

By Ferry

Ferries have always been the traditional way to get to France from the UK although now there is new competition coming from the Channel Tunnel and of course airlines, but the ferry still makes a great way to cross the English Channel.

- Dover to Calais (Sea France) (P+O Ferries).
- Dover to Dunkirk (Norfolk Line).

By Car

Main motorways
From the UK: For convenience Eurotunnel is difficult to beat. It may not be the cheapest service to Calais, but you save at least 10 minutes in the UK as you board at Folkestone rather than Dover. The boarding process is usually quite painless and the actual journey time is the quickest at 35 minutes

A26 from Calais to Reims
A1 the most frequented, from Paris to Lille, Crossing Picardy via Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport and Astérix Leisure Park. 
A16 l’européenne 312 kms, from Val d'Oise department to Belgium border via Beauvais, Amiens, Abbeville in Picardy and Boulogne, Calais and Dunkerque in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais

By rail

Eurostar: Paris Eurostar is excellent. It whisks you from London’s magnificently refurbished St Pancras Station into the middle of Paris at the Gare du Nord in just two and quarter hours. Gare du Nord to Chantilly is 25 mins.
In addition, the high-speed Thalys train service connects Picardy to European cities such as Frankfurt, Brussels and Amsterdam.