Our family of 5 will arrive at the Orly (Paris) airport close to midnight July 23rd. Should we ride the remaining of the night in the airport or will it be better to find a hotel. How do hotels deal with late arrivals in Paris?
Posted by
Minneapolis, MN, USA
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There is an Ibis hotel (also part of the Accor chain) right at Orly and it provides free shuttle service from both terminals, but I don't know how late the shuttles run. See here. I think you would need to take a taxi to either the Etap or the Formule 1 hotel at Rungis. There should be minivan taxis in the ranks at Orly into which your whole family would fit.
Posted by
Pensacola
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You've got a couple of issues.
The easy one first: hotels in the city either have a manned desk late at night or not. If they don't look for a buzzer/dorbell button deal and push it. In the wild case that neither is true, check with the hotel when you make your booking.
Getting into town won't be possible by bus or rer since they're shut down -- somebody else may well know something I don't. That leaves a shuttle or a taxi (or two). It's a ten or twelve mile trip, figure a half hour ride. Taxis will be available, but if it takes two, I'd make a huddle with both drivers and stick an adult in each.
Camping out in the airport with a mob sounds like you'd be so tired the next day would be a complete waste.
Look at accorhotels.com and use 'Orly' not "Paris' as the destination. (I'm sure there are others at the airport, but I'm most familiar with this chain and it has a slew.) When you start fiddling with the individual hotels you'll see that sleeping a crowd will be a bit on the pricey side if you stay on the airport.
Work your way down to either the Etap or the Formule1 ('F1' on their logo list). Consider only the ones at Rungis since that's only a couple of miles from the terminal. (Again the taxi issue.) The rooms in each are identical (single upper over a queen lower), but Formule1 only has a sink in the room. Two rooms will take care of you for about a hundred bucks including the taxi.
I've never stayed in either of these, but absolutely know that they're identical to the zillion others in which I have. Odds are, the desk will not be manned and there will not even be any staff in the building. They will have a foyer which you can enter, but not be able to go any further. Never fear, in the foyer is a kiosk. Stick the credit card WITH WHICH YOU MADE THE RESERVATION into the slot and it will spit out a piece of paper with your room number and the door lock combination on it. This same combination can be used to open the inner foyer door.
Posted by
Pensacola
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Last thought: look around or ask about an accor shuttle bus that runs to the hotels before you snag a taxi. I seldom use Orly, but suspect that they might have the same arrangement as the ones at CDG.
Posted by
OP
St.Petersburg, Florida, USA
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Thank you everyone. I am looking into that. Thanks was very helpful.
Posted by
Minneapolis, MN, USA
8700 posts
You're welcome, Javier.
There is a cluster of Accor hotels at Rungis and they are virtually next to one another. The page for the Ibis hotel at Rungis (not to be confused with the Ibis at the airport that I mentioned in a previous post) says that there is free shuttle service, but it ends at 23:00. Again, I don't know how late the shuttle service runs to the Ibis at the airport. It may well also be 23:00, but the page for that hotel doesn't list starting and ending times.