I would like to take a bus or metro from CDG to a hotel incentral Paris. From that hotel I will then take a taxi to my apartment in the 17 arrondisement. Thought would be cheaper that taking a taxi all the way from CDG to my apartment.
Posted by
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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And when you get off the RER at Gare du Nord, just follow the many signs that say "taxis" until you are outside the station and at the taxi rank. No doubt you will have some euros already. Have a super time.
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Montreal, Quebec, Canada
8293 posts
Jackie: You can take the RER B line from CDG to the train station (Gare du Nord) and then take a cab to the 17th. Or, you could take the Roissybus to Place de l'Opera and then take a cab. In either case, you will be quite close to the 17th.
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OP
Kahuku, Hawaii, USA
78 posts
Thank you - will take info w/me when leave in a few days. Still one more unsophisticated questiom since I have never never taken any kind of public transit in Paris - Is the RER B line a bus? a metro ? Do we need buy ticket before getting on? We will be landing in Terminal one around 9:30 ayem. Excuse me, 4 questions, not just one.
Posted by
Portlandia
3313 posts
RER B is a train. You'll need to buy a ticket at the station in CDG. Keep it with you; you'll need it to get out of the the station at Gare du Nord.
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OP
Kahuku, Hawaii, USA
78 posts
Norma & Doug -- thank you so much, I feel so relieved to understand what I am doing Big help for clear directions and ideas.
Posted by
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
8293 posts
Jackie, I hope you have a guide book of some kind to help you. Also you will definitely need a metro & bus map, which you can ask for at any metro station. There is a metro station at Gare du Nord, by the way.
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OP
Kahuku, Hawaii, USA
78 posts
Again your info and kindness is appreciated
Posted by
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
8293 posts
All Jackie has to do is give the driver a piece of paper with the address written on it. She will not be taking a taxi from a hotel but from Gare du Nord.
Posted by
Gig Harbor, Washington, USA
1863 posts
Our taxi driver last June, who seemed like a personable and intelligent man, had NO IDEA where our hotel would be located. We told him it was in the 5th, across from Notre Dame, using my broken high school French. (It would have helped if I knew the preposition for "across.") We did finally locate the hotel which was on a one block long street, but it would have been much easier if we had had a google map to show him the exact location. I don't think that Paris taxi drivers have the same encyclopedic knowledge of Paris addresses that London black cab drivers possess.