Change Forum
I'm flying to Paris in 2 weeks and am taking a few days to go to Munich by train, but am flying back to Paris for a week because it is faster & cheaper. I'm flying via Air France and know I am flying into terminal 2D. After I get off the plane (from reading the map for 2D) I assume I go through immigration, then get my bags and go through customs.
However, studying the 2D map I'm not seeing a customs area anywhere. I'm meeting a friend once I leave customs and we are taking the RER train into Paris so I want to know where to go through customs and would like to plan ahead and know where exactly to meet up with her beforehand.
Here is the map of terminal 2D:
http://www.bonjourlafrance.com/air-france/paris_charles_de_gaulle_airport/cdg-terminal-2c-2d.htm
Any help would be appreciated!
CDG terminal 2D help?
Recent Activity
View all Europe activity »
- 1
Germany, Austria, and Italy Trip Report
- 2 What kind of cheese should we eat in Venice?
- 3 North York Moors in September
- 4 Sicily in the fall
- 5 Train or car ?? Nice to Marseilles to Aix
- 6 My day with Monet in Paris, please comment
- 7 Should I get a Visa?
- 8 Traveling via: Ryanair from Spain to Bilbao
- 9 Motoring Trip to France
- 10 2 weeks in Spain
- 11 Must Sees / Hotels: Copenhagen, Berlin, Vienna, Stutgart,
- 12
Treacle Down Effect
- 13
Snakes on a Plane? Our Thanksgiving in Paris!
- 14 UK for the first time!
- 15 Restaurants and places to see in and around Dubrovnik, Mostar and Sarajevo
- 16
Gertie in Eastern Europe
- 17 Idea for a quick stop in Paris?
- 18 Recent earthquake in N. Italy
- 19 Southern Ireland Itinerary
- 20 Cahir Castle and Rock of Cashel
- 21 Uffizi Academia Lines Ticket Pickup Official Vs Re-Seller Recommendations
- 22 French nationality
- 23 Prague Vienna Budapest and Barcelona!
- 24 Hotel in London
- 25 Anniversary Lunch with beach view near Rome
Hi S,
Could you meet at the entrance to the RER?
What is your issue with going through Customs? Do you have something important to declare? Unless you do, you won't even be aware of "going through Customs." You'll just go through immigration like everyone else.
Meet her at the entrance to the RER.
As Kerouac kindly explained to me in the other thread ('Major improvements to CDG', or something like that), it probably has to do with being in the Schengen zone, where there are no immigration (and possibly also customs) formalities when flying between Germany and France, and one or two other countries outside the zone.
Take a look at the thread for more info.
I don't know where people get these ideas about some big customs area they must go through upon going to Europe. There is a desk off to the side where you go if you have something to declare for them, which few tourists should. It doesn't have anything to do with the Schengen zone, I've been flying to France for 30 years and there never was any.
You go through passport control and go pick up your baggage and walk out the doors into the outer area. The customs desk is off to the side of the room on the way to the baggage carrousel, as I recall.
A flight from Munich to Paris operates as a "domestic" flight since it is in the Schengen zone.
And that means: no customs or immigration. You just walk off the flight and that's it, the same as flying from Omaha to Cincinnati.
How much hassle there is to go through a customs depends on the country. For Western Europe, it is a no event, but that does not imply that all customs are that way.
For those who have traveled only to third world countries, their can reasonably suspect customs to mean time consuming hassles.
Many years ago, it took me more than 3 hours to go through customs at Trinidad.