Paris Metro Question...
 

We will be travelling from our hotel to Charles de Gaulle airport on an early Monday am.

Looking at the Metro map, we will need to stop at Chatelet #4 line and transfer to RER B to CGD. It appears that you can walk from Chatelet to Chatelet Les Halles.

Question 1: Can anyone confirm this as we have luggage and don't want it to be a major hassle.

Question 2: How long would this take to get to CDG from Chatelet Les Halles?

Question 3: Can anyone tell me how much a taxi would be from the Latin Quarter to CDG? That would be option 2 depending on ease of navigating the Metro/RER.

Thank you seasoned travellers in advance for your answers.

The chatelet-les halles complex is humongeous and depending on just how you arrive there might involve lots of walking down escalators and notwith

You say you're coming from Latin Quarter. As I remember RER B stops at San Michel, a much smaller station and not as deep as Chatelet les Halles. Hsve you considered the RER from San Michel? The ride on the RER takes about half an hour.

If there are a bunch of you, you might consider a car service. Your hotel might help you out with that (it's about €9 to travel on the RER to CDG; if there are 3 of you, you're already paying €27...a car service would be much more convenient and not all that much more expensive.

Oh, you can walk it, all right. For hours, days even. I think there is probably a population the size of Rhode Island's that went into the Chatelet station and never made it out again.

Personally, I'd rather wash my face in jalapeño juice than try to navigate Chatelet with luggage in the morning. But if you like a good challenge, go for it!

A taxi will probably cost around 50 €.

from this webpage:

http://www.transilien.com/web/Redire...termediaire.do

Chatelet is 34 minutes

I've seen pricing around 50 euro, from people here, for a cab.

Hi S,

Cab about 55E. Shuttle van about 19E pp.

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The Chatelet metro station brings back vivid memories of a maze of corridors, moving sidewalks (fast and slow),and relief that that metro station was not part of our CDG trip.

Try the Roissy Bus from the Opera metro area if you want to use public transportation.

Have a great trip, sunschein!

We just got back from France and one of our hotels was near the Chatelet metro. Yes, it is a maze! My mom didn't think we were going to find our way out, but we just kept following the signs and finally did. I would not want to navigate that with luggage though.

We had our hotel arrange for a shuttle for us to CDG the morning we left. The shuttle picked us up at 5:45 am and was prompt. I cannot remember the name of the company, but we stayed at the Britannique so you could call or email them and ask who they use. We were very pleased.

Believe me, walking between those two stations with luggage will be a hassle. If you are in the Latin Qtr, why are you going there? I agree with the suggestion to use St Michel (or Luxembourg) RER stops, which are the same line. Where exactly is your hotel?

A taxi will probably cost around 45-55 euro.

Ditto on St Michel RER station. You can also do the Air France bus (14 euro one way), as well as the Roissybus shuttle, each with pre-determined drop-off points, from there you would walk/Metro/cab.

http://www.cars-airfrance.com/

http://www.ratp.info/informer/anglai..._roissybus.php

Once while burdened with lots of stuff on a hot Sunday afternoon I transfered from the RER coming from CDG to Metro line 1 at Chatelet. It was not all that pretty (long walk, stairs) but I did make it to my hotel.

Replies would be more meaningful if you didn't mind providing the name of your hotel...

I agree - w/o the name or location of your hotel, most suggestions will be useless. That being said - St Michel will be much, MUCH easier than trying to navigate Chatelet

If you are on line 4, you are supposed to transfer to the Châtelet-Les Halles RER station at the Les Halles station and not the Châtelet station. The transfer at Les Halles is extremely simple and requires not much walking, with escalators everywhere, as well as an elevator to the RER track level for those who need it.

As others have mentioned, Saint Michel may be simpler to get to, or even Luxembourg. It all depends on where you are in the Latin Quarter.

In any case, for a Monday morning rush hour, the RER is the way to go, as taxis or shuttles will get stuck in the traffic jams.

Forgive me for being very dense. You can stay on Metro Line 4 all the way to Gare du Nord, where you can then transfer to the RER-B for the airport. Much easier to do than Chatelet/les Halles.

It depends on where you are located. Using another station to get the RER (Denfert-Rochereau comes to mind, or Port-Royal) might be better in terms of transferring from the métro. However, we were staying on the eastern side of Paris, took the métro to Nation, changed to the RER A which took us to Les Halles, and the RER B to CDG is right across the platform. Door-to-door took us 50 minutes to an hour.

Assuming you're heading to CDG on metro line 4...it is very simple. If you're coming from the South, transfer at St. Michel not Chatelet. If you're coming from the north, transfer at Gare du nord....I would avoid chatelet like the plague.

Anybody who takes lines 4, just look at the route map over the exit doors of the train. You will see that <b>THERE IS NO CONNECTION TO THE RER AT CHATELET</b>. You will see that the connection is very clearly indicated to be at Les Halles. I can't believe that none of you has ever noticed this.

kerouac...

You're right but the whole complex as far as the RER is concrned is all interconnected and you can, I am almost sure, make connection from line 4 to the RER at both the Chatelet and at les Halles although it is a very painful correspondance either way!

I had the same experience as Michael. Chanced to meet a Frenchman on the train in from CDG who improved my mapped instructions from the ticket seller to transfer from B to A instead of the Metro. Right across the platform and that's all I saw of that station really.

Fairly quick going back as well.

Of course you can make the connection at Ch&acirc;telet. You can also walk underground from Saint Augustin metro through Saint Lazare, Saint Lazare-Haussmann, Auber, Havre-Caumartin, and all the way to Op&eacute;ra, but that doesn't mean that anybody should do so.

As for Les Halles being a &quot;painful&quot; connection, nothing could be farther from the truth. That's where the RER is. The only reason that the RER station became &quot;Ch&acirc;telet-Les Halles&quot; was to allow people on lines 1, 7, and 11 to reach the RER. People on line 4 know that the RER is at Les Halles.

I guess I don't go through there often enough! To me, it seemed from the name of the RER station it was one big complex! Sorry/

I strongly agree with the other poster -- go to gare du nord which has escalators and elevators.

If you don't have a M&eacute;tro Ligne 4 car handy so you can refer to the map over the door, you can always look here:

http://www.ratp.info/orienter/f_plan...artenaire=ratp

Wow lots of feedback. Thank you everyone. Sorry for my late response.

The reason we are not transfering at St. Michel is because we are on the 7 line and it doesn't stop there. Our metro starting point is Place Monge which stops at Chatelet.

There is two of us and we will look into other modes of transportation as well.

Thank you Michel Paris, the website that you provided will be useful if we still choose to go by public transit vs. taking a cab.

Merci.

You could also take M&eacute;tro Ligne 7 to Op&eacute;ra and get on the Roissybus. Next stop: Charles de Gaulle Airport.

http://www.ratp.info/orienter/f_plan...artenaire=ratp

Thanks Robespierre.