"Odd" experience at CDG?
 

Just returned from a trip coming and going through CDG airport. On arrival, they never checked us through or stamped our passports or checked luggage tags. We were simply allowed to leave. I was quite surprised. Anyone have any experience like this?

It depends on terminal and originating country I think - We changed planes in Brussels last December on our trip to Paris. We went through immigration there -perfunctory .. flew to CDG and nada. I assumed this was because we had originated in an EU country.

I forgot to mention that we were arriving from JFK, NYC.

This has happened to us in Rome also; barely a glance at passport. We put a "reminder post-it-note" on ours to ask them to stamp it. After all, the passport is a souvenir after 10 yrs!

This has been my recent experience on arrival in Paris and Rome for the last several years. I suspect they only check "suspicious" looking travellers.

Marion...My friend had never been out of the US...first trip to Europe. He was very disappointed that they didn't stamp the passport. :-) I am sure he will recover, however.

I am not a fan of CDG airport, so any experience there is odd as far as I am concerned. <BR>Last September both coming in from the USA and from Zurich, my passport was glanced at, but not stamped. <BR>Then, while waiting for our transportation, we got to watch the French bang cars and scream at each other. I never saw any law official arrive to take down info. The two drivers just gestured and talked emphatically until we left. So I have no idea how it came out. <BR> <BR>In '98 we arrived in Zurich from Amsterdam on KLM. The man at the passport control station just waved us all through with both hands. He did not even look at my picture. (Can't say that I blame him.) But he didn't look at my wife's picture either.

We came through CDG from the UK last November and the whole arrivals hall came to a complete stop for over an hour until a lone unaccounted for piece of luggage was removed from the carousel. So it is nice to know they are aware of some things, if casual in others!!

Once when coming into France from Great Britain, there was a sign on the customs door that said it was closed! We just walked right into the country--NO questions asked. I have been to France three times, and I don't know that I have any stamp from on my passport.

When I was there in 1989 (from SFO)they stamped the passport. But in 1998, our passports were barely glanced at, but on my return to Houston, we got a stamp.