Hello all! My husband is going to France for the first time in twenty years, and unfortunately without me :-(
His first five hours of a very short 3 night trip are going to be waiting for his connection to the TGV to St Pierre des Corps (and onwards to Amboise).
He%26#39;s wary about trying to get all the way into Paris and back jet-lagged and without much French. (If I were going, we%26#39;d be Seine-side ASAP, but, alas, that%26#39;s not to be!).
I can%26#39;t bear thinking of him eating airport food in France. Is there a cafe in one of the airport hotels that has a decent pan au chocolat, or even real french bread and strong tea that you could recommend?
Many thanks in advance!
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The cafes in the airport have decent pastries and coffee/tea -- this is France - bad food simply isn%26#39;t tolerated, with the obvious exception of McDonald%26#39;s and Quick.
Granted, it%26#39;s not as good as a cafe in the heart of Paris, but they%26#39;re more than acceptable, far better than those soggy lumps they try to pass off as a croissant on the plane, and the coffee is actually brewed, not some weak and watery instant version.
There isn%26#39;t anything close enough to CDG that would be of a quality worth the hassle of finding a place to stow the luggage, finding a cab, getting away from the airport, and then having to reverse it all within 5 hours.
He can also check at the TGV station -- many times if there is an earlier train he%26#39;ll be able to get on the earlier train without any hassles. I%26#39;d be very surprised to see a 5-hour gap in the schedule between CDG and Amboise.
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the two worst meals I have ever had in the world were at a Marriott in Provo and the airport Hilton in Paris -- the Hilton was both awful -- truly deeply awful and expensive and the staff were incredibly rude
I would chance an airport cafe before the airport hotels
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One of the best meals I had was in the Sheraton restaurant at CDG. A little pricey but excellent - in fact, wonderful!
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Well, there is a very nice looking Champagne bar near gate A49. They had some snacks....
the woman next to me in the terminal got a ham sandwich from the upstairs cafe and said it was excellent... I dont know what type of taste she has, of course!
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Thanks to you all!
No airport food this time, I found (via these boards!) another way for him to get to Amboise via Gare d%26#39;Austerlitz, and have lured him into spending a couple of hours nosing around the 5e. Now he%26#39;s got a list of about 5 cafes, brasseries and boulangeries I want him to hit -- let%26#39;s hope he doesn%26#39;t fall asleep and lose his luggage in Place Dauphine! :-) (ps, so embarrassing to misspell pain!)
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