will be arriving at cdg on the morning of july 18(9:55 am).need to catch a ryanair flight from beauvais to stockholm.would like to take a minivan or taxi to beauvais to catch my flight at 2:45 pm.my question is do i have to book the minivan or taxi in advance or will i be able to get one upon arrival.and what would be the normal cost for such a ride.
thanks,
kapu prabhakara
please please help - merci
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About 120euro for the taxi ride but some may not take you as Beauvais is kinda out of their way.
This shuttle service charge 145euro for 3 people.
discoverfrance.net/Boutique/…rates.shtml
There is a bus that leaves from central Paris at 12:30 than costs 13euro per person especially for your Ryanair flight but you may be cutting it a little fine if you only arrice into CDG at 10am.
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Unless you have some special need for a private shuttle van out to Beauvais Airport--approx a 70 minute drive from central Paris, you may find that the regular BEAUVAIS SHUTTLE BUS ant 13 Euro per person, from its Porte Maillot pick-up spot is the better alternative in terms of cost vs. convenience.
BEAUVAIS AIRPORT SHUTTLE--
www.aeroportbeauvais.com/bus.php?lang=fr
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Californian,
Here is what I would do:
- Take the Air France bus to Porte Maillot - Etoile and get off at Porte Maillot, the first stop. Don%26#39;t forget to tell the man who puts your luggage under the bus that you will get off at Porta Maillot. Cost: 12 Euros per person.
The bus stops in front of the Meridien Hotel, on the side of the Palais des Congres. From there, you are literally 3 minutes away, on foot, from the bus stop to Beauvais, which is on the other side of the Palais des Congres. I don%26#39;t know what the schedule is for the buses to Beauvais; you should be able to make it, but it will be close. The bus ride from CDG, since there should not be much traffic then, is about 20-25 minutes.
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KDKSAIL and others -
californian%26#39;s problem is that the Ryanair shuttle departs from Porte Maillot 3 hours BEFORE the scheduled flight time, i.e. at 11.45 am, with boarding at 11:30 am. I realize that this is at variance with ptegan%26#39;s statement that there is a bus leaving at 12:30 pm, but I am not sure where this information comes from. (See this link from the Ryanair web site http://ticket.aeroportbeauvais.com/ )
With a flight arriving at CDG at 9:55 am any delay at all in reaching Porte Maillot will mean that the shuttle will have left before you get there.
The Air France bus to Porte Maillot takes about 45 minutes on a good day, I believe. That means californian will have to be pulling away from CDG by 10:45 am on the Air France bus to have a good shot at making the shuttle. Assuming your flight is not even a few minutes late, getting to the gate, clearing immigration, picking up baggage and clearing customs CAN be a slow process at CDG especially if a number of trans-Atlantic flights are arriving at more or less the same time.
I really don%26#39;t know what the best answer is, but I see three options:
1) Keep your fingers crossed and hope that the airport formalities go quickly and that you can get the bus to Porte Maillot with no delay and that the trip into Paris is smooth and there are no traffic problems. If that is your plan you should probably pre-purchase any relevant tickets you can.
2) Hope for most of the above but take a taxi (50 Euro or so?) to Porte Maillot, which might shave some minutes off the trip if there is not an Air France bus ready to leave the minute you are ready to go.
3) Bite the bullet and shell out the 120 Euro for a shuttle direct from CDG to Beauvais.
Of course if ptegan is correct that you can leave Porte Maillot at 12:30 pm and make it to Beauvais in time for your flight, you just bought an extra 45 minutes, but that is NOT what Ryanair%26#39;s info re shuttles to Beauvais suggests, and even that is tighter time-wise than I would want to be...
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IrishRovr,
I beg to differ.
The ride to Porte Maillot, when traffic is good, is about 20 to 25 minutes. However, if the bus is not there when you come out of the terminal, you may have to wait up to 15 minutes.
Also, it depends if he arrives at Terminal 1 or 2 ?
Going to Paris, Terminal 1 is the last stop before going straight to Porte Maillot. There are 3 stops at Terminal 2.
It is not rare for luggage delivery at CDG to take 30 minutes.
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kmeceo -
Fair enough. I type corrected. So we%26#39;ve just put maybe 20 minutes back on the plus side.
I still think there just isn%26#39;t enough time to make the connection if it is really 11:30-11:45 rather than 12:30 without a whole lot of luck...
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Californian,
Agreed with IrishRvr.
If you can%26#39;t catch the Air France shuttle by 10:45, you are better off using the van shuttle.
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californian,
One last piece of information and then I am done. I checked the Beauvais airport website. They confirm that buses depart 3 hours prior to your flight departure. Buses are marked for every flight and they check that you have an airline ticket. However, you can buy your ticket online.
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With apologies to the original inquirer (I blew right by your arrival at CDG) there are NO good alternatives...only the least worst of a bad bunch for a transfer between Paris-Beauvais and Paris-CDG airports.
The #2 AIR FRANCE COACH from CDG to it%26#39;s first drop-off point at PORTE MAILLOT (I%26#39;%26#39;m inclined to lean toward 30-40 minutes from CDG to here--there%26#39;s no accounting for traffic). The cost for this combined shuttle transfer would be 25 Eper person (12 Euro AF, 13 Euro BVA) If you%26#39;re lucky and catch every break the minimum transfer time will be 1:40 hrs--to-2:00 hrs.Though the BVA shuttle scheduled for your 14:45 RyanAir Stockholm flight is 11:45 from Port Maillot, there are also additional BVA shuttels schedued for 11:50, 12:00 that would get you there in time and one at 13:00 that JUST might make it too. (there%26#39;s nothing on the schedule between noon and 1 PM)
AIR FRANCE COACH--
http://www.airfrance.com/double6/passage2.nsf/(LookupPublishedWeb)/en-EXCDG-CarsAF?OpenDocument#
BEAUVAIS AIRPORT--
www.aeroportbeauvais.com/index.php?lang=eng
%26gt;%26gt;TIMETABLES %26gt;%26gt; DOWNLOAD TIMETABLES %26gt;%26gt;
Another alternative is to take the RER B-3 ligne train from CDG to PARIS-Gare du Nord (7, 85 Euro, SNCF/TER trian 11 Euro) and then from the SNCF train sattion to the airport ???.) Given the train schedule, this mode of transfer may require an additional train change between Gare du Nord and Beauvais...plus the taxi or bus ride from Beauvais statiion to your departure terminal.
SNCF Train Innfo--
www.voyages-sncf.com/dynamic/_SvHomePage…
The third option is to contact some of the Paris airport shuttle services to find out if any offer direct mini-van shuttle service between CDG and BVA.
BLUE VANS--
http://www.bluvan.fr/
PARIS AIRPORT SHUTTLES--
http://www.paris-airport-shuttle.com/
The last and most expensive...but I suspect may be the %26#39;..best..%26#39; (after a fashion) transfer between CGD and BVA will be a taxi with an average taxi fare of 100 Euro and a travel time of approx. 55-75 mins. Droppin%26#39; 100 Euro on cab fare ain%26#39;t my idea of a %26#39;good time%26#39; but this may be one of those times when it may be most prudent to toss Euros at potential %26#39;..aggravation..%26#39;.
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If you aren%26#39;t already aware - Ryanair luggage limits are much less than TransAtlantic flight limits. And they check your luggage and charge for additional weight. Their flights are priced very cheap but they get you on the excess baggage!!
Can%26#39;t help on the travel from cdg to Beauvais (We had a rental car which might be the best way to do it if you can find a company that will not charge a drop fee since it is not such a great distance between the airports. Also, a %26#39;station-car%26#39; might also work for you depending on how many people and how much luggage)
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