RER B from CDG

[framboiseetrose]

I average around 60 euros. The last time , we rran into heavy traffic and my taxi fare came up to about 72 euros (we were on rue des Ecoles).

[Jody]

We've always taxied from CDG to rue Jacob , nr. St Germain de Pres and have never paid more than €55, even though our planes arrive just about at the start of rush hour. We have come by various routes though and sometimes I've wondered if we were going all around the mulberry bush. When I've been worried most , the fare always seems to have been lower!

[rssilverandlight]

Happy -

If stairs are part of a diet plan, do you think
they will paint white stripes on the stairs
of the ET to denote directions ?

[Happygoin]

Yeah, Randy...what SHE said

(You're pretty confident that I can't run to CA and give you a big noogie, aren't you?? )

Gitte, honest...I've never paid 60E any of the several times I've taxied to the Left Bank. It's been a minimum of 32 to a maximum of 54.

The 32 was this last time on the way back to the airport. It was New Year's Eve day, late morning, and I felt like we were going the wrong way on a one-way street .

[rssilverandlight]

Gitte and Happy -

Since when did I say anything about WOMEN and dieting, driving
tools or football ?

And I have always known that this group is predominately women.

[ucla83]

Hi all,

I am new to this forum.

I will be arriving at 2:00 in CDG on a Friday. I estimate that I will be done with customs and luggage claim approx 3:00? How bad is traffic on a Friday afternoon? I am assuming that a taxi to the Eiffel Tower will cost approx 60 euro with all the traffic?

How much is the RER children?

Thank you in advance

[GitteK]

ucla83 - there is really no need to throw out all that money. You can avoid the stairs of the train station and turnstiles and what have you, if you take the Roissybus from the airport. It stops at all 3 terminals and goes directly to Rue Scribe, just behind Opéra. From here you can take a taxi to your hotel, and save yourself the price of a nice 3 course meal !!

I am doing that next week, as I shall be staying in the Montparnasse area. The cheapest for me would be just to take the RER to Denfert-Rochereau, but as I travel "gypsy-style" bringing LOADS of stuff, I have decided to do the combined bus+taxi stunt.

www.ratp.info/informer/anglais/aeroport_roissybus.php

ps. did everyone notice the elegantly (yet casually) tossed-in phrase...... "next week" ?? ;D ;D ;D ;D

[Happygoin]

UCLA, the issue of transportation to/from the airport inspires great debate. It really depends on your budget considerations as well as your confidence level in trying something new. If price is no object, then it is definitely easiest to take a taxi. It picks you up directly outside the terminal, and drops you at your door. If you'd rather spend your euros on macarons, then do as Gitte suggests. OR, you can take the RER (it really is dead easy) to St Michel and cab it from there. Both are about the same price. The RER is 8,20E. There is a taxi rank at the St Michel metro stop, and a cab from there to your hotel should cost no more than 10E, plus 1E per bag.

Gitte, if the weather is as nice in Paris as it is in New England today, you'll be a lucky lady. I have my fingers crossed for you.

[geordy]

And let us not forget the Air France Coaches(buses for anyone not just AF passengers. A bit more $ than Roissey buses but more comfortable with baggage handlers too!, and stop at Etoile and Montparnasse.

[GitteK]

yep, geordy - but the AirFrance busses do not come to terminal 3, only terminal 1 and 2.

videocdn.airfrance.com/cars_airfrance/Flash/carsAF_en.swf

[geordy]

Now you got me! Where the heck is Terminal 3 and who/what uses it??

Whenever I've taken the RER I've gotten on at Terminal 2 it goes to 1 and then we are on our merry way to Paris! Same with the buses. SO it must be after Terminal 2? Never noticed it on a map either.

[Jody]

It's mainly for EAsyJet flights.

[luckyluc]

Coming from Montréal we always used T3 with Air Transat or Zoom Airlines. There is only room for deboarding 2 planes at the time. The arrival section is the size of an american high shcool gym! Four steps for the customs, three steps for collecting your bag and five steps to the taxi. It is simply perfect.

[GitteK]

Terminal 3 is "tout petit", as Luc says - only 3 baggage bands, so you can't miss your suitcase.
Taxfree store is about the size of my livingroom, and so are the arrival/departure halls. But it has OK cafeterias and a kiosque, so it works perfectly.

It's mainly for charter airplanes, I think. "My" low-price company Sterling Airways goes to terminal 3.

For taking the train to Paris, you turn right after leaving the arrival hall, follow the signs "Paris par train": along a pedestrian path under a tunnel, across a few streets and: 'opla !! You are at
RER station "Aérogare 1" - it's only about 400-500 meters. Super-easy.