At about 6000 km from Europe, Guadeloupe can be reached in 8 hours from Paris Orly to Pointe à Pitre, with about 5 flights a day depending on the time of year.

 

Air France, the national airline, offers a wide range of prices and the possibility of buying a ticket online.
Air Caraïbes, French company specialized in connections with and within the Antilles and Corsair, newly created carrier, provide daily connections between Paris Orly and Guadeloupe.
It can be more economic to purchase separate flights and not a single tract ticket. Low cost carrieres offer cheap flights to get you to Paris for the departure and you need only make sure that your ticket guarantees passage on alternative flights in case of unexpected delays by the carrier.

If you love the sea and you have time, there are two other possibilities to reach Guadeloupe, sailing in the period October to December . You could alternatively travel by sail boat from a French port or on board a cargo ship with passenger transport service.

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The nearer islands are accessible by sea.
L'Express des Iles departing from Point à Pitre in Guadeloupe connects Dominica, Martinique and St. Lucia (Wed / Fri / Sun; 1'45 travel time, 3:45 a.m., 6:50 a.m.), with the possibility to transport vehicles (note that the car rental companies normally do not allow the transfer of the vehicle on another island)
Another company that serves the islands of Martinique and Dominica is http://www.jeansforfreedom.com
 

Guadeloupe is connected by Air Caraibes with regular flights to Martinique, St Martin, St Barth, Haiti, Santo Domingo, and Cuba, via Martinique, St Lucia, Canouan (Grenadines), French Guiana, Belem (Brazil).
The company Liat serves St Lucia and several other islands in the region via Antigua: St. Vincent, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, Santo Domingo, Barbados, Tortola, Anguilla, St. Kitts & Nevis, via St Martin: St Thomas, Tortola, St.Croix, San Juan (Puerto Rico).
Air Antilles Express collega la Guadalupa con Martinica, St.Martin e St.Barth. Air Antilles Express links with Guadeloupe Martinique, St. Martin and St.Barth.
There are links with the United States (American Eagle via Puerto Rico - Air France to Miami 3 times a week - Delta Airlines to Atlanta on Saturday) and with Canada (Air Canada and Air Transat).
 

The international airport of Pôle Caraïbes in Guadeloupe, which opened in 1996, receives flights from different airlines: AéroLyon, Air Canada, Air France, Air Caraïbes, Delta Airlines, Air Antilles Express, American Eagle, Corsair, Cubana, Liat, North American, Royal, Star, Air Europe, Air Transat.

At the airport you will find the representatives for the airlines, as well asvshops and music, souvenirs, tobacco, pharmacy, hairdresser, grocery, a post office, internet kiosk, foreign exchange office, ATM, restaurants and bars, taxi service, duty free, equipment and services for the disabled.

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To move between the islands of Guadeloupe, you have the choice between air and boat.
Les Saintes is accessible from Guadeloupe with ferries departing from Pointe à Pitre, Trois Rivière, Sainte Anne and St Francois (via Marie Galante - only in season). Les Saintes is also connected daily with Marie Galante.
Marie Galante can be reached by Saint François, Pointe à Pitre and Les Saintes.
La Desirade be reached only by Guadeloupe, from St.Francois at Grande Terre.
 The maritime connections offer much flexibility and reasonable prices compared to those of air travel.
Before ending on and try to be the landing with a little 'in advance, sometimes that happens the ferry to start sooner rather than delay.
 If you prefer to travel by private plane, Tropic Airlines tel. 0590 202 018.
All the details of shipping links in the pages of the individual islands.

Public transport of Guadeloupe are being reorganized to provide users with a regular and more frequent.  They are also provided transport for Saturday afternoons, Sundays and public holidays and hours of service continued till 21/22. Will be better developed links local rural intervilles lines that connect the villages and small towns with each other, lines express with a few stops linking major cities and lines periurbaines in the cities of Pointe-à-Pitre and Basse-Terre, which will link the suburbs to downtown.

The bus station in Pointe à Pitre are two, the new station Bergevin, center to center city, from where buses to Basse-Terre, and the train station to the Quartier de la Darse (district of the dock), in center city from where the bus to Grande-Terre.If at first there is a ticket (where the timetables), the second is quite a bus stand and the ticket is bought directly from the driver. The cost of a ticket for trafficking Pointe-à-Pitre Deshaies: € 5; Pointe à Pitre-Basseterre: € 8 (April 08)