Old town
Staying at the foot of Saint-Pierre cathedral
Sleeping in town rather than by the airport costs you one extra journey in the morning, fifteen minutes by bus (Corolis route 6) or by taxi, the latter charged €17 by day and €21 at night. In exchange you wake at the foot of Saint-Pierre cathedral, surrounded by independent restaurants, and usually on softer rates than the airport zone.
Hotels in this area
Mercure Beauvais Centre Cathédrale
In the heart of the old town, at the foot of Saint-Pierre cathedral.
1 Cours Scellier, 60000 Beauvais · City centre area
Hôtel de la Cathédrale
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Beauvais town centre · City centre area
Hôtel Victor
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15 Place Jeanne Hachette, 60000 Beauvais · City centre areaWhat to know about this area
Beauvais station runs direct services to Paris Gare du Nord, an alternative to the Aérobus if you are extending the trip with a few days in the capital. Watch the early flight, though, because the €1 city bus does not reach the airport before 7.55am on weekdays and 9.55am on Sundays. Before that you need the Navette Express at €4, whose first run leaves the centre at 4.15am. We set out all these timings in the early flight guide, and our transfer comparison prices the taxi alternative, €17 by day and €21 at night for the 6.5 km between the station and the terminals.
That extra travel cost is often recovered on the room rate, and it buys a setting the airport zone cannot match. The Gothic choir of Saint-Pierre cathedral rises to 48 metres, the tallest ever built, and the building holds a 19th-century astronomical clock driven by 68 automata. A few minutes away stand the MUDO, housed in the former bishops' palace of the 12th and 13th centuries, and the Maladrerie Saint-Lazare with its medieval garden.
It is also the only area where you dine somewhere other than a business park, among the independent restaurants of place Jeanne-Hachette and the town-centre shops. For a late-morning flight, a longer stopover or a weekend, this is the best compromise in the guide. For a departure before 8am, look instead at the airport area.