I guess I have already travelled about 10 times to Paris, apart from my 1-year in Paris. Finally I found a hotel which I can recommend. Last week, when I was again in Paris, I realized one more time how often tourists are confused about the city. Let me explain few things:

Journey to Paris

After the airport custom control in Charles de Gaulle, please follow the bus or “Roissybus” signs and look for the green big bus with the sign “Opera”. The ticket costs 9.20 Euro per person. There’s a ticket machine which works with coins and credit card. You can also pay the bus driver. This bus drives from Terminal 3 to 2 to 1 and then final station Opera. Normally there’s every 15 minutes a bus.

When you arrive at the “Charles de Gaulle” or also called “Roissy” Airport, there are some Taxi driver who will take you for 50-80 Euro to any place in Paris. I prefer to pay 5 to 8 times less and take the “Roissy-bus”. You can also take the train called “RER A” to “RER E”, but I can’t recommend because more people, difficult to change line and more complicated to find. There’s just one Roissy-bus, which drives always from each terminal to the place called “Opera”.

From there you can travel by metro lines very easy to your final destination or stay in the below hotel and enjoy your holidays close to all important sightseeing places in Paris. Traveling inside Paris is very common and easy by metro.

Hotel

The hotel I can recommend is the ” Orion Paris Haussmann“. About 1 minute on foot from the Roissybus-Stop. Very modern, each room with a little kitchen and a midsized fridge. The stuffs are so friendly and heartily. It’s a 3 star hotel with reception on the 4th floor and free internet. The rooms are cleaned every 3rd day and every day they bring you toilet paper and towels. For the hair dryer you have to pay deposit of 20 Euro.

This is definitely the wrong hotel if you are looking for a hotel with good service, but very nice if you also want to buy something in the supermarket (cookies, fruits and drinks) and if you are happy with the very close to bus connection which brings you easy and cheap to the airport.