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Roissy is a city close to Paris wellknown because tof the Charles de Gaulle Airport, international airport..
Paris is served by three international airports, Charles de Gaulle in Roissy is the main one.
Charles de Gaulle International Airport (Roissy ICAO: LFPG, IATA: CDG) to the north-east of the city is one of the major hub airports of Europe. It's notoriously confusing, so allow plenty of time for transfers. There are three terminals: Terminal 1, Terminal 2 (which is huge and subdivided into 2A through 2G), and Terminal 3 (formerly T9). Terminal 1 and 3 are next to each other, whereas mass Terminal 2 is in another building. The free CDGVAL shuttle train connects the terminals together. Everything at this airport is very expensive, especially the basics such as food. There are also hardly any benches around, and don't even consider looking for an outlet to charge your cell phone or laptop.
When you arrive at CDG, you should write somewhere on your itinerary what terminal you arrived at (2A, 2D, etc.), because when you come back to the airport to depart at the end of your trip, the RER subway train makes two stops at CDG to cover the three terminals, but there are no indications of which airlines are at which terminals. (Nor are there such signs inside the airport itself.) Air France and associates leave from Terminal 2.
For getting to or from Paris, the RER subway train, line B, has stations in T3 (from where you can take the free CDGVAL shuttle train to T1) and T2; trains to Paris (the stops are Gare du Nord, Châtelet-Les Halles, Saint-Michel Notre-Dame, Luxembourg, Port-Royal, Denfert-Rochereau and Cité Universitaire) leave every 7-8 minutes (alternatively 1 direct to Paris Gare du Nord and 1 stopping train). Tickets cost €8,40 (or €5,90 for a child's fare) each and take around 35 minutes to Gare du Nord, 45 minutes to Denfert-Rochereau, making this the fastest and cheapest way to connect. Buy tickets with credit cards or euros at the "Billets" machines, or you can get in line to buy them from a human cashier. From the trains area, stations 11/12 are where the RER to Paris stops; you may want to ask to make sure this has not changed. You're in the right place if there's a sign saying "All trains go to Paris". When using the ticket to the airport (and with tickets to zones outside of Paris) use it to enter and exit the train. Always keep the ticket handy as the SNCF officials sometimes check for tickets, and if you are without one you may be fined €40.
Alternatively, the Roissybus service connects all terminals directly to Opéra Garnier in central Paris, but it's subject to traffic jams and rush hour, so it averages 60-90 minutes even on a good day. There is also a TGV station in T2 for high-speed connections, mostly towards Lille and Brussels, but there are also some trains that head south to eg. Rennes and Nantes, bypassing Paris.
Lodging
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