Last leg of our five week trip is Friday, October 15. Figured I could just wait and get train ticket to CDG today. We’re staying at airport hotel before our flight on Saturday.
Checking Trainline and SNCF and it either says tickets not available for purchase or train is full. Darn! Never thought that would happen. Only glitch in five weeks.
Is my only option to take train from Amboise to Austerlitz, then train to CDG from another station?
Thanks
I see plenty of TGV's to Paris Montparnasse on Friday (after TER connection at St Pierre des Corps). Why not do that, then a Taxi to CDG?
Otherwise, the 15:32 TER direct to Austerlitz 1st class looks pretty good with 91 EUR for 2. Again, take a taxi if you don't want to muck with Metro/RER connection to CDG.
I think you might be confusing advance ticket to St Pierre des Corps. No need for one. Sam is spot on. TGV to Paris Montparnasse is wide open.
What do you mean by "then train to CDG from another station"? You can get the RER C from Gare d'Austerlitz to Saint-Michel-Notre-Dame and change there for the RER B line to the airport or you can take Metro Line 5 from Gare d'Austerlitz to Gare du Nord and change there for the RER B line to the airport.
If you are traveling light, the public transport options listed above are viable. Just be aware that the transfer from RER C to RER B at Notre Dame/St Michel is a couple levels down a stairway, since the RER C tracks are just below street level and the RER B is diving down to get under the Seine at that point. The No. 5 Metro is an elevated line at Gare d'Austerlitz with only stairs up to the platform. At least at Gare du Nord, you have elevators and escalators down to the RER B platforms.
I know this because I was staying in a hotel by Gare d'Austerlitz a few years back and was packing heavy and I spent a couple of hours scoping out my options to get to the airport the following day. I chose to use the No. 5 Metro, and next day as I rested on the landing half way up the platform stairway, a young lady offered to carry my suitcase the rest of the way to platform. Hilarious. "Non, merci!" I laughed and managed it on my own.
JHK - I meant train from Amboise to Austerlitz, then train from Gare de Nord to airport. Not crazy about doing the RER with luggage. Been a long, but enjoyable five weeks. At this point will probably take train to Montparnasse, then taxi to airport.
Thanks everyone.
Sam - thanks for the recommendation about the number 5 metro
Taxi from Montparnasse to the airport is the best solution IMO and what I would do but I thought you wanted to use mass transit so I was offering mass transit suggestions.
