Originally Posted by Cohiba

I assume you know she cannot ride the crew bus, right? Not a problem though- I've brought Susanne many times and she rides the RER train and often beats me to the hotel- especially if traffic is bad. The cost is Euro 8.40- might have gone up slightly. Briefly, she will take take the RER B train from the airport to St.Michel/Notre Dame station, then change to the RER C to Javel station.

It's easy- but here are some tips to make it even easier. When changing at Saint Michel/Notre Dame, she knows she's on the right platform if she sees signage for the Eiffel Tower. Have her take the RER line C towards any of Versailles-Rive Gauche, Saint Quentin en Yveline, or Viroflay Rive Gauche. (Also called RER C5 or C7) Do NOT get on the train marked Pontoise or Argenteuil. Get off at the Javel station, walk about 2 blocks north along the Seine to our Novotel Tour Eiffel hotel at 61 Quai de Grenelle (Pont de Grenelle bridge with the easy to spot Statue of Liberty).

On her return from the hotel, take the RER C back toward Notre Dame. Have her look for signage for Notre Dame. (I recommend she depart no later than 3 1/2 hours before takeoff time.) At St. Michel/Notre Dame, the RER B trains going North don't all stop at CDG, since the line splits. But there are big LED screens that display all the stops for the next arriving train. Have her look to make sure CDG is lighted, and away she goes!

If you wish, you could ride in with her on the train. She simply can't ride the crew bus however. (Our Paris veterans also know that she could approach the Novotel via the Metro and Charles-Michel Metro station, but I don't advise this for new visitors since you are approaching the Novotel from the side you can't see.)

Originally Posted by dalad

Day 3 of the "Dakar Diet". Good God, I've caught bugs in Mex and Bom, but this one is the hands down winner. Just eat a Caprese salad before your main course and wait about 6 hours. It just laughs at Imodium and antibiotics. ugh........

Originally Posted by Bucking Bar

Contract 2015 Opener.

I just want this:







Put that in my garage and I'm probably a yes vote. I can only imagine what that thing must sound like.

Originally Posted by Bucking Bar

Careful with that stuff. Don't skip on Docs. The resistant bugs can get super nasty. I've found the chewable Pepto works even when Imodium does not.

Hope you get to feeling better.

After my last experience I pack KIND Bars (some are reasonably healthy) and eat from the suitcase when outside CONUS.

Originally Posted by Cohiba

I assume you know she cannot ride the crew bus, right? Not a problem though- I've brought Susanne many times and she rides the RER train and often beats me to the hotel- especially if traffic is bad. The cost is Euro 8.40- might have gone up slightly. Briefly, she will take take the RER B train from the airport to St.Michel/Notre Dame station, then change to the RER C to Javel station.

It's easy- but here are some tips to make it even easier. When changing at Saint Michel/Notre Dame, she knows she's on the right platform if she sees signage for the Eiffel Tower. Have her take the RER line C towards any of Versailles-Rive Gauche, Saint Quentin en Yveline, or Viroflay Rive Gauche. (Also called RER C5 or C7) Do NOT get on the train marked Pontoise or Argenteuil. Get off at the Javel station, walk about 2 blocks north along the Seine to our Novotel Tour Eiffel hotel at 61 Quai de Grenelle (Pont de Grenelle bridge with the easy to spot Statue of Liberty).

On her return from the hotel, take the RER C back toward Notre Dame. Have her look for signage for Notre Dame. (I recommend she depart no later than 3 1/2 hours before takeoff time.) At St. Michel/Notre Dame, the RER B trains going North don't all stop at CDG, since the line splits. But there are big LED screens that display all the stops for the next arriving train. Have her look to make sure CDG is lighted, and away she goes!

If you wish, you could ride in with her on the train. She simply can't ride the crew bus however. (Our Paris veterans also know that she could approach the Novotel via the Metro and Charles-Michel Metro station, but I don't advise this for new visitors since you are approaching the Novotel from the side you can't see.)

Originally Posted by sinca3

Originally Posted by Roadkill

Thanks LeineLodge, Lobo, iaflyer, and CyclePilot!
Indeed, getting the info we need as commuters is difficult, and it's hard to find a source that gives fast uncluttered complete sched info, without all the "best price" spam.
Commuters, and there are 53% of us at Delta according to the ALPA contract poll I believe, understand how critical the info is-- there are some wierd days of the month around holidays, and Tuesdays, where your ability to report for a trip or get home from one may change by 8 hours! I have to check every single day of the month for my commute, both going and returning, so that I can put in PBS avoids for particular days that have issues. There are always 3-4 of them a month.

LL, PM received, will reply--thanks!

Just tested the sites mentioned:
Kayak.com does display all the flights. Unfortunately, every time you put in a new date, it wipes your "filters" and gives you all 1 and 2 stop flights (I want to be able to just show directs), and it resorts it cheapest first--and I want to show it by take off time, early to late in order. You can do this, but you have to click 5 spots to show the info how you want it, and it puts it on multiple pages... Also, the sort is done internally on the page, not via the URL form return, so you can't embed the view you want into the URL either. WORKABLE but not the best.

Passrider.com-- does display all the flights when using the upper right search box, and displays them all tightly and succinctly, in chrono order, on one page, and it preserves form filter selections (non-stop etc.). So far, passrider.com is the best place I've seen for the info display. They need a "next day... previous day" buttons on their response form, so you can just work through the month (quicktrip.com has that), but their display is very good.

Thanks all for the tips, and I want to be sure you understand I appreciate them all--just put these "reviews" on the sites up as a public-service in case other commuters are reading and don't want to have to look at all the options.

Originally Posted by Dirtdiver

We stay in 3 different hotels in Paris. Watch out, these directions only work for the Novotel!