Surviving CDG airport + RER
Oct 24th, 2009, 04:26 PM
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Some more info on the RER B:
The Express trains from CDG are generally listed as KROL (This is the 4-letter "name" of the train). Starts around 9 a.m.
The trains to CDG start with the letter E -- EKLI trains are expresses (as well as a few others). Earliest exprees leaves Chatalet around 9:30 a.m.
This is a good site (Paris By Train) for details:
http://parisbytrain.com/
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The Express trains from CDG are generally listed as KROL (This is the 4-letter "name" of the train). Starts around 9 a.m.
The trains to CDG start with the letter E -- EKLI trains are expresses (as well as a few others). Earliest exprees leaves Chatalet around 9:30 a.m.
This is a good site (Paris By Train) for details:
http://parisbytrain.com/
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Oct 24th, 2009, 04:31 PM
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Here is the schedule to CDG from the Paris By Train site:
http://parisbytrain.com/files/2008/06/h_b_jo_cdg.pdf
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http://parisbytrain.com/files/2008/06/h_b_jo_cdg.pdf
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Oct 27th, 2009, 02:08 PM
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One thing I don't recall anyone else mentioning on this thread concerning the RER *to* CDG is this -- the RER B line has TWO terminal points! (Actually four, as the south end also has two terminal points.)
B3 terminates at CDG; B5 terminates at Mitry-Claye. If you realize somehow that you've boarded the wrong one before the Aulnay sous-Bois stop, you can change to the right one; otherwise you'll end up in the wrong place.
Reading the destination boards can be rather confusing until you get the hang of it. Each train has the terminal station indicated on the front of the first car -- but unless you see the train entering the station, there is no indication of where it's headed other than that destination board overhead.
B3 terminates at CDG; B5 terminates at Mitry-Claye. If you realize somehow that you've boarded the wrong one before the Aulnay sous-Bois stop, you can change to the right one; otherwise you'll end up in the wrong place.
Reading the destination boards can be rather confusing until you get the hang of it. Each train has the terminal station indicated on the front of the first car -- but unless you see the train entering the station, there is no indication of where it's headed other than that destination board overhead.
Oct 28th, 2009, 09:53 AM
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I don't think reading the destination boards is all that confusing. If the destination is not "Aéroport Charles de Gaulle" and you want to go to the airport DO NOT get on that train!
Sep 19th, 2010, 09:48 AM
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I appreciate your sharing knowledge of Paris with us. I always arrive at Terminal 2E (Delta). I pick up my luggage at the baggage caroussel and take the Roissybus in. I would like to renew my Navigo 1-5 without having to walk to the RER station and then back to 2E. Questions: Is there a place to renew the Navigo near the baggage caroussel for 2E? If I must go to the RER station to renew Navigo, is there a Roissybus station near there? Thanks, Kerouac, for all your past help.
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Sep 19th, 2010, 11:27 AM
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I'm pretty sure that you would have to go to an RATP or SNCF desk to renew your Navigo, but maybe not -- and that's why the general airport information counters exist.
Frankly, 2E and the RER station are not very far apart, though.
Frankly, 2E and the RER station are not very far apart, though.
Dec 17th, 2011, 02:02 PM
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I have a question. Are the pay phones at the CDG airport like the ones in the FRA airport and they take Euros so I can call to the States. (It has like a pink box on the top with a "T"). I have a ATT prepaid phone card to. Can I just that?
