Aix-en-Provence to CDG advice

Are you planning to get to CDG from Aix on your flight day??

You would have to fly from Marseille to CDG

TGV probably works just as well and IMO you should be in Paris night before flight

Train is likely quicker than flight once you add time to get to Marseille, security/check in etc

There are fast trains from the Aix-en-Provence TGV (fast) train station Gare Routière quai 11 directly to CDG. The AeP TGV station is outside town but is well served by taxi or bus. The train will take about 4 hours to get you to the airport.

To fly you would take the train to Marseille (MRS) and Air France flies direct to CDG about 8 times a day and the flight is about an hour and a half.

One thing to consider is that CDG is well outside the city so you should only go there when you're ready to actually fly. If you are proposing chaining two independent flights together in a single day you will need to collect any checked luggage, exit the security area and then check back in for your continuing flight.

Also trying to train all the way across France on the day of a flight most people will tell you to get close the day before. I have done something similar from Arles but you have to be aware you are depending on a lot going right to make this happen without missing your flight.

It seems like earliest you could make it by train is 10:30 or so which means your flight would have to leave CDG no earlier than 1:00pm and preferably later. By flight it looks like the earliest Air France flight (for a random weekday in September) is 7:30am which leaves you a lot of room - assuming everything goes right. This also means a very early morning in Aix.

Most people will advise heading to Paris the day before, staying overnight in Paris and then heading to CDG the day of your flight.

Whatever you decide - good luck and have a back up plan,
=Tod

My trains run up to Paris on the same tracks as the ones from Aix. Last time I went to CDG, the train was two hours late getting there. Luckily, we were staying at an airport hotel the night before our flight.

I prefer checking into my regional airport and flying to CDG connecting to the overseas leg because the local airports are easier for checking in. But this works only if your flights are connected (Sky Team group for CDG) and you have time to go through passport and security at CDG.

My husband prefers the train to CDG the day before, so that's what we do together. But when I fly alone, I fly out of my regional airport and connect to the transatlantic at CDG. My regional airport is a 15-minute drive while the train is a 10-minute walk from my house.

We went from that part of Provence to CDG a few years ago via TGV, and it worked very well. We had a morning flight out of CDG, so we got into CDG about dinner time the night before and stayed in one of the on-airport hotels. We caught the train in Avignon, for all I know it may have passed through Aix on the way.

Thank you to all. Excellent points and advice! Thx again.

Gary, NJ

You need to be there the night before; it is far to risky to schedule an unlinked flight or train for a high stakes flight out of CDg where you need to be checking in 3 hours before an intercontinental flight and two hours before a domestic flight.

So: Come by train late the night before and sleep at an airport hotel. We often use the Novotel when doing that which is steps from the CDG VAL terminal shuttle.

Or since your flight is later in the day I assume, come into Paris the night before and stay in Paris and enjoy a nice dinner and a stroll by the river and get a cab to the airport in the morning. Or get a place near the RER B and take the train to CDG the next day. A hotel near Gare du Nord, Chatelet Les Halles or Luxembourg would work well.