Some more questions search answers.

Hi,again.

I think i have some more questions to ask.

1)Is it easy to find public phones in Paris?

2)What card should i buy in order to make a phone call?What about the price?

3)I will need to phone my family in Greece,so i think i will have to buy an international phone card in order to make these phone calls.

Do you know any card of this type?And its price?

4)I can imagine that in order to make a phone call to Greece from a public phone in Paris,i will need a typical phone card so that the phone functions and another for cheap international phone calls.Am i right?

5)And something totally irrelevant...Should i take the bus number 350 from a specific bus stop (only one)in CDG or this bus-it goes to the city of Paris-moves from one terminal to another -at certain gates-and it will be less difficult to find?I will be at terminal 2D,you know...I searched the map of the terminal 2 and i couldn%26#39;t find any hint of where the bus stop for this bus is.If someone knows which gate i have to find in order to locate the 350,i will be grateful.

ooo...and there is no problem i guess if i buy the regular,typical tickets(three in number)from the bus driver...I hope so...

So many questions.I hope the answers that you may give,help not only me but others too who will visit the city of lights.

Thank you in advance.

Antonis,

Athens,Greece.

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%26gt;%26gt;%26gt;5)Should i take the bus number 350 from a specific bus stop (only one)in CDG or this bus-it goes to the city of Paris-moves from one terminal to another -at certain gates-and it will be less difficult to find?I will be at terminal 2D,you know...I searched the map of the terminal 2 and i couldn%26#39;t find any hint of where the bus stop for this bus is.If someone knows which gate i have to find in order to locate the 350,i will be grateful.%26lt;%26lt;%26lt;

The #350 and #351 buses are not really intended as a viable airport transfer alternative. The #350 has a stop out in front of CDG #2-B (next to #2-D) and makes somewhere between 20-30 stops between CDG and its terminus at GARE d%26#39;EST. If you are using individual tickets, this route would require four(4) tickets (@ 1,40 € eac=5,60 €). and would not include any onward travel from there. There are NO FREE TRANSFERS with public buses. So you would need another ticket to go onward from Gare d%26#39;Est via Metro or bus.

Perhaps the better, faster, more efficient modes of airport transfer for you will be the RER %26#39;B-3%26#39; ligne--ROISSYRAIL--train from the RER station attached to CDG #2 to GARE du NORD (fare 8 €--travel time approx 30 mins). Included within this fare is onward travel on the Metro (but not the bus) from Gare du Nord to anywhere else in Paris.

For specific RATP--public bus route map and individual route information--

http://www.ratp.info/orienter/bus.php

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Antonis,

You can buy a phone card for use in public phones in pretty much any Tabac in Paris. There are public phone booths all over Paris, and you can usually always find one either outside and/or INSIDE a Metro Station.

There are two different phone cards you can buy, with different denominations. The cost of the phone cards is is appox. 7.50 euros and (I think?) 16 euros. You can call internationally using these cards on the public phones, you just dial the country code and area code and numbers. The credits on the cards do get used up faster when calling outside of France but they do work. I%26#39;ve used them many times.

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KDKSAIL,you said that i have to insert four tickets into the machine in the bus so that i could go from the airport to central Paris with 350.I just thought that i shall need three tickets(=4,20 euros).Have i missed anything?If something has changed please tell me.

Thanks.

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%26gt;%26gt;%26gt; i have to insert four tickets into the machine in the bus so that i could go from the airport to central Paris with 350.I just thought that i shall need three tickets(=4,20 euros).%26lt;%26lt;%26lt;

By my count the trip covers five(5) transportation zones CDG-Zone 5...Gare d%26#39;Est-Zone 1), so that%26#39;s four(4) tickets....but it%26#39;s been so long since I%26#39;ve ridden a bus that far in Paris that I%26#39;m not really sure. But since you will be purchasing your tickets directly from the bus driver at CDG, he will certainly know how many tickets the trip requires and how to validate them.

In any event, once at Gare d%26#39;Est, unless you plan to walk from the bus stop to your final destination within Paris, you%26#39;re going to need another ticket. Waliking may be a fine and healthy idea in fair weather...but may not be quite so fine an idea in foul weather. So even at three tickets for the #350 bus plus a fourth for transportation within Paris onward from Gare d%26#39;Est, that%26#39;s still a loooong public bus ride and 5,60 € vs. 8 € for the RER %26#39;B%26#39;train --ROISSYRAIL--which includes onward Metro travel.

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I found out from the RATP site that i %26#39;ll need three tickets.Also from discoverfrance site that is...http://www.discoverfrance.net/France/Transportation/Air/airports_Paris1.shtml

i found out the same things.

But i thank you so much about all the information you have given me.