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Charles de Gaulle

Best Ways to Get from Charles de Gaulle to Bercy: Every Transfer Option Compared (2026 Guide)

You arrive at Charles de Gaulle, clear customs, and your phone shows a hotel reservation near Bercy Village. It's not near the Louvre or the Eiffel Tower but in the 12th arrondissement, situated along the Seine beyond Gare de Lyon. Of the drivers at the taxi rank, half of them don't even glance at the name while the other half ask you to spell it. The distance from CDG to Bercy is about 32 ...

November 09, 2025

18 min read

Charles de Gaulle

Charles de Gaulle Airport to Boulogne-Billancourt: Every Transfer Option Compared (2026 Guide)

When you arrive at CDG, go through the passport control queue, and the first thing you notice on your phone is that Boulogne-Billancourt isn't really 'Paris' as Google Maps suggests. It is in fact a separate commune, situated in the bend of the Seine to the southwest of the city, and to get there from the airport you have to cross the full width of the capital first. The road distance is about...

November 04, 2025

17 min read

Charles de Gaulle

Best Ways to Get from Charles de Gaulle to Gare de Lyon: Every Transfer Option Compared (2026 Guide)

You have just arrived at Charles de Gaulle, have removed your bags from the carousel, and now all you have to do is get from there to Gare de Lyon in time for your TGV heading south. The distance is about 35 km, and depending on how the RER B is going that morning, the journey can take anywhere from 50 minutes to more than 90. The guide applies to all those carrying out that particular jour...

October 25, 2025

20 min read

Charles de Gaulle

Best Ways to Get from Charles de Gaulle to Gare de l'Est: Every Transfer Option Compared (2026 Guide)

You have just arrived at CDG, are walking through the long corridors of Terminal 2 with a suitcase, and a TGV Est train to Strasbourg is about to board in two hours. The period between landing and reaching Gare de l'Est is exactly the problem this guide is meant to address. The airport is located about 26 km (16 miles) northeast of the city and, depending on the mode of transport you take, it ...

October 24, 2025

18 min read

Charles de Gaulle

Best Ways to Get from Charles de Gaulle to La Défense: Every Transfer Option Compared (2026 Guide)

When you arrive at CDG, go through passport control and then your phone displays a meeting invitation for a building on the Esplanade in three hours—then it strikes most business travellers that La Défense isn't 'Paris' as the airport transfer signs imply; it is located on the western edge and there is no direct route to it. The distance is about 30 to 35 km, and the journey takes between a...

October 23, 2025

21 min read

Charles de Gaulle

Charles de Gaulle Airport to Fontainebleau: Every Transfer Option Compared (2026 Guide)

When you arrive at CDG, go through customs and then get out a map — only to find that Fontainebleau isn't on the same side of Paris at all. The town is about 90 km south-southeast of the airport, located on the other side of the region, and there is no one train that links the two places together. The time it takes to make the journey will vary according to the mode of transport you choose, ra...

October 22, 2025

18 min read

Paris

Paris to La Vallée Village: Every Way to Get There, Compared (2026 Guide)

You've come across a Marc Jacobs bag or a Sandro coat online, have looked at La Vallée Village's list of brands, and are now looking at a map, puzzled as to how a designer outlet has ended up 35 km east of the Eiffel Tower. That's a reasonable question. Unlike in the case of most day trips to Paris, there is no metro line that takes you there — you have to go out towards Seine-et-Marne, past t...

October 21, 2025

19 min read

Orly

Best Ways to Get from Orly Airport to Vienna House Magic Circus: Every Transfer Option Compared (2026 Guide)

You arrive at Orly, go through the passport control queue and then move into Hall 4, taking with you two suitcases, a stroller and a child who is already asking "are we there yet?" The Vienna House Magic Circus is still some 45 km away, lying beyond the eastern part of the Paris area in Magny-le-Hongre. The time it takes to cover that final stretch varies according to the mode of transport you...

October 20, 2025

19 min read

Orly

Best Ways to Get from Orly Airport to Vienna House Dream Castle: Every Transfer Option Compared (2026 Guide)

You have just arrived at Orly and as soon as you enter the terminal the doors slide open, with a queue already having formed somewhere past the taxi rank. The children are asking when they'll be able to see the castle. Vienna House Dream Castle is about 45 to 50 km east of the airport, on the opposite side of Paris near Magny-le-Hongre, and the journey will take anywhere from 40 minutes to wel...

October 19, 2025

16 min read

Orly

Best Ways to Get from Orly Airport to Newport Bay Club: Every Transfer Option Compared (2026 Guide)

You have just arrived at Orly, are in the arrivals hall holding a suitcase in each hand, and ahead, some 45 kilometres to the east, there is a hotel in the style of one from New England with a lighthouse feature waiting for you. That is the odd geographical arrangement of this route: Orly is situated south of Paris, Disneyland Paris is located to the east, and the way to get from one place to ...

October 18, 2025

16 min read