day 18 - Marrakech to Paris

Today was a travel day. We had an early afternoon flight out of Marrakech to Paris where we would spend the night before returning to the US the next morning. We had breakfast at the hotel, said goodbye to some remaining fellow travelers, packed, and headed to the airport.

We had reservations for an airport hotel in Paris and our original plan was to go into Paris city center for dinner. However our flight from Marrakech was delayed by about 45 minutes and then we lost an hour trying to find our hotel so we gave up on the idea of taking the train into Paris for dinner. We had reservations for the "Ibis Styles Paris CDG airport Roissy" hotel but instead the shuttle we got on took us to the "Ibis Styles Paris Roissy CDG" hotel. Another person on the shuttle made the same mistake so we had to get on the next shuttle and go back to the airport and try again. All the signs for the shuttle just said "Ibis Styles Paris" so not sure how you were supposed to figure out that was not the right shuttle. In any case we found the right hotel and have a comfortable place to spend the night before catching our flight back to the US in the morning.

Here is the first hotel we went to.  When we were in the shuttle I noticed it was going in the wrong direction based on google maps, but I first I thought based on one way loop roads I thought the shuttle had to take a circuitous route, then I  thought maybe I had the wrong address entered or Google was showing in the wrong place.  So, we got off the shuttle.  After the first guy trying to check in was told he had the wrong place then we became more certain we had also made a mistake.

So, we had to wait 20 minutes for the next shuttle and head back to the airport.  Once back it only took a few minutes to find the right place to go.  Dinner in Paris will have to wait for another time.