We are getting into CDG at 5:30 a.m. and need to connect with a train to the Normandy beaches by 10 a.m. What is best transport for the euro value and convenience?

Hi B,

www.ratp.fr will give you directions by public transport.

Super easy. Take the RER B to Gare du Nord and change to the RER E, which goes to Saint Lazare in one stop. It will take about 35 minutes FOR 8.20€.

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Or take the Air France Roissy bus from CDG to the Opera, a few blocks from Saint-Lazare

Kerouac can correct me but i believe the interchange at Gare du Nord from Roissy Rail to RER E at Magneta station, accessed by tunnels from Nord, could be quite a poke?

did it a few years ago and that's what i remember. But unless overloaded that's the way i'd go

No, the Gare du Nord connection is very easy and there are a zillion escalators (like a bank of 10 parallel escalators in some places). I have never seen it at rush hour, but it must be impressive.