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A Paris question for all of you more savvy than I.
I will be in Paris for a couple days this coming Summer and have an =
early morning flight back home 7 am. I'll be arriving by train. Should =
I consider staying close to the airport and what type of transport =
should I use to transfer from train to hotel and hotel to airport. This =
is my first time there and would like to have a very pariesan experience =
no holiday inn but still budget minded. I think taking a taxi would be =
too expensive but for an early morning flight it's probably best?

Thanks up front for all your help.

RWilson
Fort Lauderdale FL

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Robert Wilson:
    > A Paris question for all of you more savvy than I.
    > I will be in Paris for a couple days this coming Summer and have an
    > early morning flight back home 7 am. I'll be arriving by train. Should
    > I consider staying close to the airport... This is my first time there
    > and would like to have a very pariesan experience...

In this situation I would recommend using two different hotels --
one in the city for that Parisian experience, and one at the airport.

"A couple days" is a bit ambiguous; I'll suppose hypothetically that
your train arrives in Paris on a Monday and your flight leaves on
Thursday morning. For the Monday and Tuesday night, use a hotel
near whichever station your train arrives at, unless there is a
particular district where you would like to stay, in which case, by
all means do that. (Reserving in advance at a suitable location
would be a good idea, although perhaps not necessary if your train
arrives early in the day.)

On Wednesday morning, check out and leave your baggage with the hotel
staff -- this is a normal sort of thing at most hotels, but I don't
think I've ever done it in France, so it would be as well to confirm
in advance that you can do it. If not, probably the train station
will have baggage lockers you can use -- check for them when you're
arriving.

When you're finished with sightseeing and dinner on Wednesday, go
back to the hotel, reclaim your baggage, head for whichever airport
your flight leaves from, and check into an airport hotel (which you
reserved in advance, since you will be arriving late in the day).
Since you will be getting up around 4 am, you might alternatively
choose to have dinner at the airport hotel.

    > and what type of transport should I use to transfer from train to
    > hotel and hotel to airport.

Train to first hotel, walk. First hotel to airport hotel, Metro
and RER (this costs more than a simple Metro ride in the city, so
be sure to buy the correct ticket). Airport hotel to airport,
whatever local shuttle is operated.

If this all sounds too inconvenient, my alternative suggestion
would be to stay in the city and, after waking up at some hour
when sensible people are just going to sleep :-), take a taxi to
the airport. It won't be cheap, but at that time of day it will
be fast.
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My text in this article is in the public domain.

    > Robert Wilson schrieb:
    >
    > A Paris question for all of you more savvy than I.
    > I will be in Paris for a couple days this coming Summer and have an
    > early morning flight back home 7 am. I'll be arriving by train.

There is an RER train arriving about 5:50 a.m.

Maybe it can be seen on


Regards, ULF

    > There is an RER train arriving about 5:50 a.m.


If he's leaving out of CDG, on a flight at 7am, that might be cutting things
a bit close. CDG has to be one of the most nightmarish airports I've ever
been to when it comes to departing flights (never a problem arriving
though!). And keep in mind the airlines have a *strict* "thou shalt arrive
at least one hour prior to your flight time (that's one hours, *not* 59
minutes) or else we're gonna make your life miserable by rebooking on
something that's going to require an overnight stay someplace you don't wnat
to be." This exact thing happened to me.

Could be that things are so quiet at 6-7am there's no problem, but I
wouldn't count on it. Personally, I like the two-hotel idea (stay at one in
town the first couple nights, then move to the airport hotel the night
before your early flight out).

--Mike--
Chain Reaction Bicycles
http://www.ChainReaction.com

"Ulf Kutzner" wrote in message
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    > > Robert Wilson schrieb:
    > >
    > > A Paris question for all of you more savvy than I.
    > > I will be in Paris for a couple days this coming Summer and have an
    > > early morning flight back home 7 am. I'll be arriving by train.
    > There is an RER train arriving about 5:50 a.m.
    > Maybe it can be seen on
    >
    > Regards, ULF

"Mike Jacoubowsky" wrote in
news:tNY%[email protected]:


    > Could be that things are so quiet at 6-7am there's no problem, but I
    > wouldn't count on it. Personally, I like the two-hotel idea (stay at
    > one in town the first couple nights, then move to the airport hotel
    > the night before your early flight out).
    >

    >

Let me third this one. Your plane is just too damn early, We get up a 6 for
10 am flights: an hour to get ready, 45 minute to the airport and 2 hours
to run through the gaunlet of security and checkin.

I'm only in town two nights. I guess I'll just have to suck it up and pay
the price for a taxi or hired car. I found in NYC it was usually cheaper to
use a car service rather than taxi anything similar in Paris?

Thank You everyone for the help your a great group.

RWilson
Fort Lauderdale FL
"jcoulter" wrote in message
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    > "Mike Jacoubowsky" wrote in
    > news:tNY%[email protected]:
    > > Could be that things are so quiet at 6-7am there's no problem, but I
    > > wouldn't count on it. Personally, I like the two-hotel idea (stay at
    > > one in town the first couple nights, then move to the airport hotel
    > > the night before your early flight out).
    > >
    > >
    > Let me third this one. Your plane is just too damn early, We get up a 6
for
    > 10 am flights: an hour to get ready, 45 minute to the airport and 2 hours
    > to run through the gaunlet of security and checkin.

"Dubs" wrote in
news:JI_%[email protected]:

    > I'm only in town two nights. I guess I'll just have to suck it up and
    > pay the price for a taxi or hired car. I found in NYC it was usually
    > cheaper to use a car service rather than taxi anything similar in
    > Paris?
    >
Go for the taxi. There are van services but they will run weird routes on
you (we passed within two blocks of our hotel 30 minutes after being picked
up) the taxi will get you there quickly and have you feeling at least
relaxed about that.
    >
    >

Robert Wilson writes:

    > A Paris question for all of you more savvy than I. I will be in
    > Paris for a couple days this coming Summer and have an early morning
    > flight back home 7 am. I'll be arriving by train. Should I consider
    > staying close to the airport and what type of transport should I use
    > to transfer from train to hotel and hotel to airport.

You could stay at a hotel right at CDG. Last year my husband and I had a
flight that arrived into CDG very late and we stayed at the Sheraton,
which is right in Terminal 2. It couldn't have been more convenient. It
was not the cheapest, but well worth it, IMHO.

If you are out of Terminals 1 or 3, there are also hotels at Roissypole
which are accessible via shuttle bus (they're also accessible from
Terminal 2 via shuttle bus).

--Helen

In article ,
Helen Rose wrote:

    > Robert Wilson writes:
    >
    > > A Paris question for all of you more savvy than I. I will be in
    > > Paris for a couple days this coming Summer and have an early morning
    > > flight back home 7 am. I'll be arriving by train. Should I consider
    > > staying close to the airport and what type of transport should I use
    > > to transfer from train to hotel and hotel to airport.
    >
    > You could stay at a hotel right at CDG. Last year my husband and I had a
    > flight that arrived into CDG very late and we stayed at the Sheraton,
    > which is right in Terminal 2. It couldn't have been more convenient. It
    > was not the cheapest, but well worth it, IMHO.
    >
    > If you are out of Terminals 1 or 3, there are also hotels at Roissypole
    > which are accessible via shuttle bus (they're also accessible from
    > Terminal 2 via shuttle bus).
    >
    > --Helen

I second this. We rented an apartment in the Marais one Christmas and
the lease was up a day before our flight. We stayed at the Novotel at
the airport -- right at the RER station [the train is in the basement]

This allowed us to move our stuff to the airport hotel the morning
before -- then take the train back into Paris for afternoon and dinner
but we were right there and had only to get on a shuttle at the
trainstation to our terminal the next morning -- soooooo much more
convenient than having to arrange transport to the airport the morning
of a flight [and we have had a couple of close calls with airport
service shuttles -- the work ethic and little details like hiring
drivers who know the area and can find passengers are not as well
established in Europe as is our experience in the US ]

I'd never stay by the airport throughout a visit -- but it is great that
last night. Instead of fussing with traffic and pick ups and making it
in time, we were having a leisurely breakfast at the hotel and then a
short stroll to the shuttle to our terminal]

But the OP was looking for a genuine Paris experience IIRC and you don't get
one of those in a hotel at Roissy !
"Helen Rose" wrote in message
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    > Robert Wilson writes:
    > > A Paris question for all of you more savvy than I. I will be in
    > > Paris for a couple days this coming Summer and have an early morning
    > > flight back home 7 am. I'll be arriving by train. Should I consider
    > > staying close to the airport and what type of transport should I use
    > > to transfer from train to hotel and hotel to airport.
    > You could stay at a hotel right at CDG. Last year my husband and I had a
    > flight that arrived into CDG very late and we stayed at the Sheraton,
    > which is right in Terminal 2. It couldn't have been more convenient. It
    > was not the cheapest, but well worth it, IMHO.
    > If you are out of Terminals 1 or 3, there are also hotels at Roissypole
    > which are accessible via shuttle bus (they're also accessible from
    > Terminal 2 via shuttle bus).
    > --Helen

Jenn wrote:

    > This allowed us to move our stuff to the airport hotel the morning
    > before -- then take the train back into Paris for afternoon and dinner
    > but we were right there and had only to get on a shuttle at the
    > trainstation to our terminal the next morning -- soooooo much more
    > convenient than having to arrange transport to the airport the morning
    > of a flight [and we have had a couple of close calls with airport
    > service shuttles -- the work ethic and little details like hiring
    > drivers who know the area and can find passengers are not as well
    > established in Europe as is our experience in the US ]

We also had a problem with our "Paris Airport Service" shuttle honoring
the reservation I made...even though I confirmed the arrangement twice by
phone even the night before our flight out...they left us hanging, ate up
our time buffer so we ended up getting a taxi and had to rush out to the
airport, where we barely made our flight...thought their rates are cheaper
than a taxi, they are worthless if they fail to honor the bookings and
give no indication they will leave you stranded (the best they had was a
"sorry" when I finally reached them)...they are a waste of time...too bad,
since it is a good idea, a service many other cities have (and are better
about honoring their reservations).


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I had to get a 7am flight out of Heathrow last summer, and was sure there would
be no one there at 5:30am on a Sunday morning. The place was packed, I was
really nervous we would miss the flight. Fortunately we made it.

--mikeb

In article ,
Mike Jacoubowsky wrote:
    >> There is an RER train arriving about 5:50 a.m.
    >If he's leaving out of CDG, on a flight at 7am, that might be cutting things
    >a bit close. CDG has to be one of the most nightmarish airports I've ever
    >been to when it comes to departing flights (never a problem arriving
    >though!). And keep in mind the airlines have a *strict* "thou shalt arrive
    >at least one hour prior to your flight time (that's one hours, *not* 59
    >minutes) or else we're gonna make your life miserable by rebooking on
    >something that's going to require an overnight stay someplace you don't wnat
    >to be." This exact thing happened to me.
    >Could be that things are so quiet at 6-7am there's no problem, but I
    >wouldn't count on it. Personally, I like the two-hotel idea (stay at one in
    >town the first couple nights, then move to the airport hotel the night
    >before your early flight out).
    >--Mike--
    >Chain Reaction Bicycles
    >http://www.ChainReaction.com
    >"Ulf Kutzner" wrote in message
    >news:[email protected]...
    >> > Robert Wilson schrieb:
    >> >
    >> > A Paris question for all of you more savvy than I.
    >> > I will be in Paris for a couple days this coming Summer and have an
    >> > early morning flight back home 7 am. I'll be arriving by train.
    >> There is an RER train arriving about 5:50 a.m.
    >> Maybe it can be seen on
    >>
    >> Regards, ULF