Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport
Worst Airport Winner
Lasting Impressions....
"I found a policeman and told him the situation of the guy harassing us; he really didn't care, my French is fluent but he said that the homeless had more right to be in the terminal than we did." (Kira)
"the guy on the electric floor swiper drove at us several times and drove over the front of the bench where are feet where about 10 or 12 times in the space of 10 mins." (cdgcov_lad)
"Plenty of REALLY strange people asking for cigarettes and money all night long" - Gulce
"the guy at the counter said that he would not speak to us because we had the wrong attitude and he would only speak with the passengers with the right attitude." - agatek
"The washrooms were dirty and had a really rank smell, like urine left in a toilet bowl for weeks on end." (Katman)
"Before my departure I found this web site and got an awful fright to read what lousy opinions people had of CDG. It nearly made me change my tickets and go via another city." (sebastian)
"all the terminals were full of homeless people who smelled bad, touched themselves in inappropriate places" (briggew)
"I was propositioned not once but twice by the same man asking me for casual sex, which was understandably a little frightening for a lone 20 year old woman wandering the airport at night"
"So many other review of CD'G were negative--but honestly, our experience was great!" (?)
"it was very hot, felt like we were in a greenhouse. " (Black Lark)
"Want to live dangerously? Travel via CDG! Want to live even more dangerously? Order a meal at the filthy food-court underground at the old terminal." (?)
"We moved several times because of homeless people bothering us and other travelers mocking us" (Michael)
"I didn't sleep in this airport (phewwwww) but i just had the urge to say that it's the ugliest, dirtiest, noisiest and messiest (if this word exists) airport in the world." (Sassenach)
"My luggage has gotten lost their several times, probably about 1 in 3 visits. " (Andrea)
"The airport looks like a throw back to the 70s with tiles and orange (stained) carpet. there is a stench of feces and b.o. so rank it nearly knocked me down." (?)
"Our wait was more than 5 hours and I could not believe the filth from hell, the bathrooms were worse than some I have seen in Africa! Smell of Urines all over the floor, feces on the walls, toilet papers all over the place, rude french workers. " (Baron Kodjo)
"I never imagined an airport in Europe could be so Crappy. Its the dirtiest airport I have ever set foot in. Airports in Third world countries are much better than this piece of crap." (Sarah B)
"The worst major airport in the developed world!!! Period. Bar none. The facility like the people are rude arrogant, indifferent and more than a little spiteful. Looking back on my experience though I've come to fully understand that CDG is an airport that Parisians actually deserve."
"I couldn't sit on the metal benches for too long because this caused a lot of pain. You get better treatment and a more hygienic facility in a Third World airport than in Paris. France's CDG displays the appearance of a Third World airport something you might find in Sudan or some other African nation."
"I'm just writing down to express all the shame and anger I feel, as a French citizen, towards all the foreigners who have to come across Roissy CDG." (Claude Bahout)
"So many so called employees are happily wandering with colleagues in this airport, doing nothing! I would love to kick their ass." (Claude Bahout)
"This is the worst airport I have ever been in (and I have been to the Bombay airport, so you can imagine)." (?)
"got booted by security from the one place that didn't suck. " (?)
"There are some homeless people but they were really peaceful!" (James)
Quick Reference Airport Guide
Here is some information that we've picked out of from your reviews. Be sure to read the review pages for the most up-to-date info:
- terminal 2 is newer and suppose to be the better terminal (clean and no homeless people) - Go there!!!, reports of free Sony Playstations, semi reclining chairs and sleeping pods, free WiFi in terminal F.
- bucket seats with armrests
- cold metal benches
- no seats at some boarding gates
- hot and humid
- washrooms smell
- staff are rude and unpleasant
- frequent announcements
- filthy washrooms
- noisy
- homeless people
- frequent announcements
- a few couches in transit area
- WiFi
A few airport reviews from the archives
by shiv666
I had a 7 hour stopover on my journey from toronto to delhi. I arrived in the 2a terminal and i took a shuttle bus over to 2b. The shuttle bus ride was kind of fun since it uses a little network of service roads between terminals and there's allot of activity there even at 5am. If you want to smoke you have to pretty much leave the transit area, canadians don't need visas to enter france so it was no big deal. Lots of shops to choose from on the airside and on the public side. The corner stores were open but other shops started opening around 6. Nice food at the cafe on the airside. The seating was comfy but they had arm rests so you could not really lie across them, later on our gate got crowded so we just walked towards the emptier end and found plenty of space. All the staff at the airport seemed friendly. I've heard horror stories from people who transited there before me but my transit was pretty smooth. I heard that the staff and security there are very rude but everybody i met was nice...-1 for the armrests on the seats...
by Gulce, 11/18/2009
sleeped there, twice. The first would have been enough! But I had no choice!
Plenty of REALLY strange people asking for cigarets and money all night long, no security check, most of toilets closed at night (which is... after 11pm!), insecure. If you are a girl alone, DON'T sleep there! I did in many countries, but although I'm french, it was the most scary place I had.
Try to avoid it. As well as the last RER, which is already a taste of the airport!
by travelingworld, 10/25/2009
The officer was rude, careless about his duties and he was behaving differently with each person. He made to remove shoes and belt of a traveller from USA however he even didn't notice many other people follwoing him. As this officer was later busy in chatting with a lady colleuge about a family matter. It was surprising.
You have to choose between trolies as 3 out of 5 will not work. At boarding gates, the floor was durty, messy. The other funny story is it took 5 minutes to find a toilet. There are not enough sign boards. The flush was not working in the toilet. It was worst time we had in this year.
