Traveling to Paris next week. Meeting my mother and sister at the airport. We all arrive around the same time on different flights. We think we can use the Wifi and log into what'sapp to connect and find eachother. Can anyone confirm there is free and easy to access wifi at CDG airport? Or is there a simple way to meet up?
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Washington DC Region, USA
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Here's the info from the airport's website:
https://www.parisaeroport.fr/en/passengers/services/in-the-airport/services-at-arrival/staying-connected-upon-arrival
Posted by
Sunriver
1321 posts
I would say it is not that user friendly - free sure but often times unreliable as most free wife's are. I might just look at the CDG maps and preselect a place to meet/ If you can confirm your arrival terminals maybe just meet like at baggage claim (even if you are not checking bags)
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New York, NY
4071 posts
Maybe things have changed but when I was last at CDG in October 2018, WiFi was free, easy to connect & strong.
Posted by
Florida
211 posts
I was just in Paris last October and used the wifi at CDG to get on Whatzapp to message my apartment landlord that we were leaving the airport (so they could time meeting us there). It was easy enough however, be aware that it will kick you off when you leave the app or close your phone and you have to go thru signing back on.
Check out this link - it shows you exactly what to do:
https://www.parisaeroport.fr/en/passengers/services/wifi
Be sure to join only the networks this article mentions – "WIFI-AIRPORT" or "WIFI-AIRPORT-STANDARD"
Then choose the blue box - WIFI GRATUIT and you'll be taken to a page to input some info (no credit card or sensitive info) and you're connected
Are you arriving on the same airline? If so, you'll likely be arriving to the same terminal and can make plans to simply meet up in baggage claim. If you're coming in on different airlines, you'll have to figure out which terminal each airline arrives in and then whomever arrives first, collect your bags and head to wherever the other party is arriving. I did this a couple years ago meeting a friend who came in on a different airline. I arrived first, so I collected my bags and after asking employees a couple times, I finally found her terminal and waited outside her baggage claim area. If you have to do this, look at the CDG airport map and get a sense of where the terminals in question are in relationship to each other – because I had done this before I left home, even though I was a bit turned around once there, I knew that the information one person gave me (that I had to get on a shuttle bus to reach the terminal I wanted) was incorrect. Another conversation led me in the right direction (without the bus!). As a rule, most flights come/go from the same terminals each day, however once there it does not hurt to check the other flight on the monitors that show arrivals because sometimes last-minute gate/terminal changes do happen.