We are flying from CDG to Munich on a Saturday in early June. Our flight leaves at 12:05 and we are staying on the Ile de la Cite. We're flying on Lufthansa and we need to check bags since we're carrying hiking poles. I'm thinking we should arrive at CDG by 9:30, and leave our accommodations at 8:30 to do so. Am I allowing enough time for all of this?
Posted by
la la land...
1151 posts
Sounds about right. Personally I would leave the hotel by 8 AM if only to grab a quick bite at the airport, a coffee...but your timing works OK...
I err on the "rather be too early" side of it when it comes to these sorts of connections. On our last trip to Paris, the taxi ride to our left bank hotel took 100 minutes...traffic was awful...in all our years of making this journey, that is the longest ever.
Posted by
Panguitch, Utah
2863 posts
If you are not going through passport control, and flights to Munich from France do not, you should be at CDG 2 hours before your scheduled departure. I would leave Paris no later than 09h00.
Posted by
OP
Southern California
477 posts
Thank you for the responses. I will probably err on the side of caution and ask for an 8 a.m. pickup time. I too would rather spend time exploring the airport or having a snack than sweating it in traffic and wondering if I'm going to miss my flight.
Posted by
Paris
10696 posts
Are you flying only to Munich, or is Munich your connecting point for an onward flight ?
Posted by
OP
Southern California
477 posts
@Kim. We're flying to Munich then taking the train to Salzburg. I had thought of taking the train all the way, but it was getting so complicated--especially since the SNCF website was showing construction work and possible train time/station changes for the day we were going to travel--that I opted for plane/train connections.
Posted by
Uppsala, Sweden
7355 posts
Flying from Paris to Munich takes more or less the same time as the train, city centre to city centre. Then you still have to add the trip to Salzburg. SNCF won't sell you any tickets outside the area they operate, they won't even show the options. Using DB, www.bahn.de, you can see all the options. It can usually be done in around 8 hours. Although my recommendation for Paris to Salzburg is the overnight train, you find more information about that at www.nightjet.com
Posted by
OP
Southern California
477 posts
Thanks Badger. I got a lot of advice on the Paris to Salzburg trip with my original question under Transportation. I liked the idea of the night train, but it doesn't run from Paris TO Salzburg on Saturday (at least not when I was looking at it), the day we will travel. In the end, though I know it would take about the same amount of time, I choose to fly/train since it was the simplest option for me at the time. We've had a number of family crises over the last few months, and having something "done" with the least amount of effort is helping keep me sane.