Sacre nomme de plume!!

Just a quick posting to vent: we have just suffered the misery that is Charles De Gaulle Airport. I have been through some dodgy airports (the one in Lanzarote springs to mind) but seriously this CDG is the worst by miles, or more accurately lightyears.

On arrival at the airport station, you are presented with 3 choices of terminal to go to but no information as to which airlines fly from each terminal. Not a problem except each terminal is a couple of miles from the station and you have to catch a shuttle bus to each one, except terminal 3. We took a random guess of it being terminal 1, but it turned out to be terminal 3- naturally. We caught the shuttle bus back there and then had about a 1km walk to get to the actual terminal itself. During this walk, I suggested to Heather that the airport has to stop the traffic when a plane takes off because it looks as if they share the same road.

On arrival, we had a queue of hundreds in front of us and the check in staff quite frankly were not only slow but at random intervals wandered off for no apparent reason. When we eventually got to check in, the check in clerk said "your boarding time is now" - and we still had the joys of passport control to get through. However, that was not a problem as there were still people stuck behind us, so they had to delay the flight to get them all processed.

On getting through passport control, we were keen to get something to eat & drink because we had left the hotel at 6am. €19 Euro later, we were the proud owners of a sandwich and a coke each. I was tempted to get them preserved in isopon rather than consume them at the price we paid.

In short Charles De Gaulle airport is terrible and I will never whinge about Heathrow terminal 4 again.