CDG 2E Business lounge closed for 2 months
Jul 16, 2014, 2:26 pm
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Hello from a "garden chair".
I had an 11pm departure from the K gates. This place is a disgrace (except for the lovely view across the landing strips).
I understand renovations can be necessary. The space isn't the problem, though - it's pleasant. It's the things Air France could fix.
The only hot food are "mini" versions of pot noodles. The only alcohol is mysterious red wine and Heineken. They could not lend me a phone charger or plug adaptor but it's ok, as there are no power points. No apologies and no signs on how to get there. As noted before, coffee is Nescafé and I also had a pot of fruit from economy catering.
Given biz ticket prices, this airline should be ashamed but I guess they're beyond that point. I'll stick to BA, which sometimes stumbles but is prompt to apologise when this happens.
I had an 11pm departure from the K gates. This place is a disgrace (except for the lovely view across the landing strips).
I understand renovations can be necessary. The space isn't the problem, though - it's pleasant. It's the things Air France could fix.
The only hot food are "mini" versions of pot noodles. The only alcohol is mysterious red wine and Heineken. They could not lend me a phone charger or plug adaptor but it's ok, as there are no power points. No apologies and no signs on how to get there. As noted before, coffee is Nescafé and I also had a pot of fruit from economy catering.
Given biz ticket prices, this airline should be ashamed but I guess they're beyond that point. I'll stick to BA, which sometimes stumbles but is prompt to apologise when this happens.
Jul 16, 2014, 4:11 pm
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Jul 18, 2014, 8:21 am
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The temporary lounge is pretty bad. The lounge agents at both K as well as M yesterday were fairly embarrassed by the set up.
I had no problem asking for access to a lounge in L or M (I chose M). The agent in K wrote a note on my boarding pass that would allow me to get into M. That said, it was not smooth...there is no clear way to exit K (or M) once you are through security. A security officer told me that I could get out of K going through reverse via lane 1 (meaning go through the metal detector in the opposite direction). Out of M, also go all the way to the right (which has double access doors). Easy to exit, but it took awhile to figure out how to get back to the train.
At M security, I initially had an issue getting access, but another security person came over and was familiar with the issue of people wanting to get away from the K lounge.
So you can access the other lounges, but you'll have to reenter security at each pier, so allow enough time for that.
Re: flights leaving from CDG to the US, they can leave from any pier, as they were yesterday, e.g. I left from K, the DL flight to JFK left from M, etc.
I had no problem asking for access to a lounge in L or M (I chose M). The agent in K wrote a note on my boarding pass that would allow me to get into M. That said, it was not smooth...there is no clear way to exit K (or M) once you are through security. A security officer told me that I could get out of K going through reverse via lane 1 (meaning go through the metal detector in the opposite direction). Out of M, also go all the way to the right (which has double access doors). Easy to exit, but it took awhile to figure out how to get back to the train.
At M security, I initially had an issue getting access, but another security person came over and was familiar with the issue of people wanting to get away from the K lounge.
So you can access the other lounges, but you'll have to reenter security at each pier, so allow enough time for that.
Re: flights leaving from CDG to the US, they can leave from any pier, as they were yesterday, e.g. I left from K, the DL flight to JFK left from M, etc.
Jul 18, 2014, 6:02 pm
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CDG-SFO is a risk for no real lounge, depending on what gate is assigned to the flight that day. The USA flights can leave from K, L, or M.
For your inbound flight to ATH, you'll need to go through immigration and change to the schengen terminal, so you would use the lounge there.
For your inbound flight to ATH, you'll need to go through immigration and change to the schengen terminal, so you would use the lounge there.
Jul 19, 2014, 12:11 am
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Jul 29, 2014, 10:26 pm
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CDG 2E Business lounge closed for 2 months
The ones in the L and M concourses have showers. The one in K as well, but that is the one that is currently closed for renovation. As far as I understand you're allowed to use the L and M lounges even if flying from K during the renovation works.
Jul 30, 2014, 2:43 am
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I have had the misfortune of three visits to the K Summer Gardens. And whilst the overall setup is rather pathetic (a couple of plastic containers with stale chocolate danish, leftover crumbles at a spot they claim has seen some lemon cake before, some stale savoury stuff, warm drinks, plastic cutlery, all in a state of mess and not looked after) the chairs were actually fine. Surely not for 3 hours, but OK for 20 or 30 minutes. Sure, it'd be even better with a seat cushion, but they're ok.
Jul 30, 2014, 1:19 pm
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