Poland is around 600 miles from the UK, flights take around two hours. Airports include Bydgoszcz (near Torun), Wroclaw (near Karpacz) and Warsaw (for Augustow). A number of low cost carriers are now operating flights from the UK:

List of Back in the 1990's you could only fly to Warsaw, Gdansk or Krakow, today there is a large number of airports to choose from:

BZG - Bydgoszcz Airport
GDN - Gdansk Rebiechowo Airport
KTW - Katowice Airport
KRK - Krakow Airport
LCJ - Lodz Airport
POZ - Poznan Lawica Airport
RZE - Rzeszow Jasionka Airport
SZZ - Szczecin Goleniow Airport
WAW - Warsaw Okecie Airport
WRO - Wroclaw Strachowic Airport

Coach travel has been popular with budget travellers, but takes an exhausting 24 hours +, though at the moment some air fares are even less expensive. It can be enjoyable to meet people on the way and when you finally arrive you really do have the feeling that you've travelled.

The road journey is fairly straightforward motorway through Brugge in Belgium, Antwerp in Holland and via Berlin in Germany. Once in Poland have a map and be alert, travel along the major A roads can be a little disconcerting, don't always expect to find the road clear around the next fast corner, in traffic there are plenty of overtaking maneuvers which just wouldn't be acceptable in the leafy lanes of Berkshire; and if you have two cars to choose from take the bigger one with bumpers.

Whilst flying is still a luxury for many people in Poland it was even more so in the 1970's when Director Andrzej Kondratiuk shot the cult comedy film Wniebowzieci, it's about two working class men who win the lottery and fly around from city to city in Poland, this clip shows them misbehaving in the plane.