CDG 2E : Transit lounge accessible for K-gate departure
 

I will be flying CDG-DUB next Monday evenning, but will be at the airport ~6 hours before the flight. The flight departs from the historical (K-gates) E terminal I presume (can anyone confirm ?). There is a very nice transit lounge for everyone in the L-gate satellite. Once I have passed police and security, will I be able to reach that lounge to wait for my flight ?

normally not, but some posters on this forum have been successful, so give it a try. Your punishment could be to go through security twice due to the terminals lay-out.

According to AF, there is no problem as long as you stay in 2E, confirmed by dragons multiple times. The problem is ADP. If you try to enter the L gates area with a boarding pass for a K-gate, often times they will bump you - that happened to me every time I tried to connect from 2F.

In the early hours of Sunday I'll arrive at terminal 3 CDG and have a 4 hour 40 minute layover before flying out of terminal 2/E.

I had absolutely no chance to check out the airport last time due to an unexpected transfer to the other airport when the flight changed.

That said my hope is that someone may be able to tell me whether I'll be able to get a shower on the arrival or departure side, what a common wait time might be, and if I need to have a towel.

Thanks in advance.

Oh, and I have access to the AF lounge through DL PM status.

at what time do you land in T3 ?

arrive 5:55am depart 10:40am.

You can take a shower in the AF lounge in the 2E concourse (airside) you are departing from. It will be for sure a busy time for showers as a lot of long-haul flights arrive at that time, but it's clearly impossible to predict how long your wait will be. But there's a significant number of showers (it's not like at KL lounge/AMS with their ridiculous 4 showers), so it shouldn't be a problem with your long connection time. And you don't need a towel (provided by AF).
To connect from T3, you will have to walk to the RER/CDGVAL station (about 200m) and take the CDGVAL to T2, then walk to T2E.

Thank you for the information, with limited bandwidth in Nepal I've struggled to find out, the shower should be really nice on this one.

Made it to the lounge at about 6:20am, when straight back, at least two showers were available, and no line.

I actually was able to shower at the lounge in Delhi, I didn't realize there was a different club for international travel, but the AF flight to CDG was so hot I needed another one.

Nice lounge, but I imagine its a bit stuffy on busy days. Seems a calm Sunday morning right now.

I have a follow up question. In a little over a week I'll be flying IAD-CDG-FCO in J with a 7-8 hour layover in CDG. Since I am arriving on a non-schengen flight will I be able to use the non-schengen L concourse lounge before transiting to the 2F side where my rome flight leaves from? If I have to cross security twice that is fine, I have plenty of time as you can see. Thanks in advance!