Why is that??
Its an eyesore inside and outside (Terminal 1 CDG). You kind of have to go there and wait for a flight transfer inside it to know what I mean. The new terminals are quite good however architecturally....but suffers the same French "laissez-faire" snob attitude in parts (and I speak fluent French! - didn't help since they detected I had the "horrible" Canadian version!).
Terminal 1:
10 of the world's most hated airports | CNN Travel
10 of the world's most hated airports | CNN Travel
1. Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris, France
Don't expect to make friends during a storm closure.
“A great country worthy of the name,” President Charles de Gaulle once opined, “does not have any friends.”
True or not, it’s this sort of attitude that has helped CDG become the most maligned major airport on earth. What’s fueling it?
Grimy washrooms with missing toilet seats don’t help. Nor do broken scanning machines and an overall lack of signage, gate information screens and Paris-worthy bars, restaurants or cafés.
The baffling circular layout is worsened by warrens of tunnel-like structures, dismissive staff and seething travelers waiting forever in the wrong queue.
The worst part may be this airport’s aura of indifference to it all. “Waiting for a connection here,” notes one commuter, “is like being in custody.”
If you’re actually staying in Paris, you may be okay. If you have the gall to just be passing through between Malaga and Montreal, you can cut the spite of this place with a cheese knife.
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The CNN article hits the overall experience bang on the button. I brushed my teeth in one of those grimy washrooms at CDG...oh god the horror of it!
Spot on for LAX too, god that place was a headache.
Very True.
Its an eyesore inside and outside (Terminal 1 CDG). You kind of have to go there and wait for a flight transfer inside it to know what I mean. The new terminals are quite good however architecturally....but suffers the same French "laissez-faire" snob attitude in parts (and I speak fluent French! - didn't help since they detected I had the "horrible" Canadian version!).
Terminal 1:
10 of the world's most hated airports | CNN Travel
10 of the world's most hated airports | CNN Travel
1. Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris, France
Don't expect to make friends during a storm closure.
“A great country worthy of the name,” President Charles de Gaulle once opined, “does not have any friends.”
True or not, it’s this sort of attitude that has helped CDG become the most maligned major airport on earth. What’s fueling it?
Grimy washrooms with missing toilet seats don’t help. Nor do broken scanning machines and an overall lack of signage, gate information screens and Paris-worthy bars, restaurants or cafés.
The baffling circular layout is worsened by warrens of tunnel-like structures, dismissive staff and seething travelers waiting forever in the wrong queue.
The worst part may be this airport’s aura of indifference to it all. “Waiting for a connection here,” notes one commuter, “is like being in custody.”
If you’re actually staying in Paris, you may be okay. If you have the gall to just be passing through between Malaga and Montreal, you can cut the spite of this place with a cheese knife.
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The CNN article hits the overall experience bang on the button. I brushed my teeth in one of those grimy washrooms at CDG...oh god the horror of it!
Spot on for LAX too, god that place was a headache.
