Review: YOTELAIR Paris Airport Priority Pass Lounge (CDG)

Very bizarre. Based on what is written on the menu and in the refrigerator, I would interpret it as saying beer has a limit of 2, and everything else is bottomless. I wonder if snacks were previously unlimited and people were getting too much so they changed it?

This is about as unglamorous as travelling gets.

I have visited multiple times. No more. Such a waste of time to visit, unless you have many hours to spend in CDG. Really a strange lounge.

Not worth it. Only redeeming part of this lounge is the shower, and in any peak Air France connecting bank there will be at least a 1 hour wait. And even then it'll be worthless given the workout you'll be doing to walk back the long hallway to security.

This is a pretty sad PP lounge, to the point that I had a second chance to go back but rather just played in one of the PlayStation booths in the terminal. This was my first "lounge" experience in CDG a while back, and I'm just glad I have enough status today to have real choices (by choices I mean AF 2F)

Is it not possible to get from Terminal 2 to the Terminal 1 PP lounges?

You can take the local landside intra-airport tram between the terminals (they’re not close), but I can’t imagine doing it just to visit the lounges.

The yotel is perfect for an overnight, although it can be expensive.

The automated train between K L and M basically stops after the final departure.

There is in fact a pedestrian walkway however it’s not available for general use

Note that if connecting from 2F (Schengen SkyTeam flights, mostly) to 2E (L), you will have to leave and re-clear security to use this lounge.

Also, to avoid any doubt: there are other lounges in 2E: the Air France lounges in K, L, and M. As their signage makes abundantly clear: they don't take Priority Pass, and Amexes don't get you access (beyond being able to use one to buy admission... and maybe some of the Dutch/French Amex AFKL cobrands have lounge passes).

And even then it'll be worthless given the workout you'll be doing to walk back the long hallway to security.

Heard of deodorant?

You ever fly an ultra low cost carrier out of an ultra low class city?

I visited this lounge 2 weeks ago and I was offered one beverage and up to 5 snacks (i got 5 candy bars to put in my backpack). Looks like they've reduced the snack allotment lol.

I was just here a couple of weeks ago. It is a strange lounge. Past a very long passport control line for Terminal 2E, then a real hike to get there, and pre-security so you can't stay long. No real food served, but the snacks are all packaged if you want to take them with you. And at least it has pretty decent bathrooms inside the lounge. Not sure I'd bother to visit it again, but it was still way better than the Swissport lounge at ORD terminal 5 that I visited on the way to Paris.

Lounge passes aren't a thing in Europe. It's very rare to be able to access an airline lounge based on a credit card, branded or not.

Until recently, vast majority of European airline-operated lounges had no way of occess other than class of service or FFP status. Nowadays some allow non-status economy pax to pay for the entry (but often only for people flying with them), and some even started accepted Priority Pass.

Doesn't Air France, which is the only tenant at CDG 2E while hosting a few Skyteam airlines, have a lounge in EACH of the three gates groups, K, L, M? (no pun intended).

I was in one of them (not the the one for the long range large planes) a few months ago and found it perfectly nice except for the cockroaches on the croissants.

we went to Europe on 2015 visited three airports and got into lounges at all three with pp.

If you use the Chase priority pass which guarantees two guests for free do you get a total of 20 euros?

Disgrace to be called as an airport lounge. Imagine paying for a packet of chips.

Agree saddest excuse for a lounge that is not worth the walk, even when actually leaving from L gates. The few snacks are on par from a machine. And I understand crowding is a real potential concern, but we watched as they requested and then stood by to watch a lady pack up her laptop to make she left, presumably because her 3 hrs were up but the place was otherwise completely empty. We stayed for about 10 min before heading back to the terminal.

Worst lounge I’ve seen. Long walk to get to it and confusing to find if you arrived at 2E. The door of the smoking room was open, so it was smelling like cigarettes. The only one toilet had water on the floor, soaking the carpet in front of it. Don’t waste your time

Hi, can someone please tell me what are the costs just to use the shower facilities for 2 people. Every website I enter gives different prices.

Thanks in advance

There is no food like lunch and drinks
It is just a name.sake it is not proper lounge like we have in India Airport
You have to search its OK only l gates which is not at all convenient to access if you are boarding from other gates.
Will.not recommend to visit.

Totally agree and you may actually be somewhat generous with your score.
Fairly comfortable seats if you can get one of those but that´s about it. Just a few observations that really annoyed me:
Went there two times with two weeks in between and the mens toilet didn´t work any of the times.
As mentioned no real food but only snacks. OK soft drink selection but if you want a beer og a glass of wine, you better not be there in the morning (before lunch). Maybe they have decided that all travellers travel in the same time zone??
It was freezing cold on both my visits and the desk staff couldn´t do anything about it.
Lastly it is quite secluded but hey a little bit of exercise is good for you right?
A lobby with snacks pretty much sums it up.

I have a 3 1/2 hour connection in CDG on Thursday afternoon. I was hoping my credit card would grant me access to a decent airport lounge, but looks like this is the only option. Guess it’s still worth visiting given the length of my stopover…

You can only access it if you leave from gate L. Everyone else is being denied passage.

Omg, what a review, you are an amazing reviewer, now I know everything I needed to know about the lounge! Thank you Ben for taking all this time doing this review! You are awesome

It's June 2024 and if you're reading this, there's NO air conditioning in the lounge. There IS in the hotel areas so this is clearly a "maybe we can sweat out some of priority pass people early" situation.

This may well be the worst priority pass lounge in all of Europe. It's worth doing a BOTTOM FIVE ranking of the worst ones as a piece.

I have never experienced a lounge without free alcolhol. Is this old comments?

This is literally the worst lounge I have ever visited. Do not waste your time… a line just to use the bathroom. Can’t believe this is the only priority pass lounge in CDG.

Total waste! Lousy food options - just some basic snacks are available - and the seating is crowded. Absolute waste of money if you are taking a guest along with you...won't go again.

Total waste of money. Limited choice of drinks and snacks.
Seats filthy.
No redeeming features.
Avoid

It's crap, no other way to put it.

I was just there this week and there was not a price list. There was a handwritten blackboard sign that said that the snacks were free for lounge guests and everyone else had to pay for them and "take away is not allowed". They had a few baskets of stuff like cookies and popcorn but didn't see any candy bars. As the article says, the only positive is that it exists. The employee who checked me in asked if I had been there before and when I said no, she told me that they did not have any alcohol or prepared food. I guess that was for PP members who pay by the visit to warn them that it's not worth it (I got in free from Chase, so I didn't care). Not mentioned here, the long hallway right before the "lounge" entrance spelled heavily of cigarette smoke. Didn't smell it very much in the lounge itself.

This is the Worse Lounge in the world, and I mean it because I travel a lot. This crapy place do not deserve to be representing Diners Club. For anyone planning to go with a guest, do not even think , it will be a complete embarrassment.
This place is been feature by Diners Lounges for a number of years (maybe 4years). It has a very poorly reviews all the time, so Diners, what are you waiting to scrap this place and get some other more decent lounge in CDG, because this is garbage. Just in May I had been twice in Paris, I refused to even think in a place like “Yotel”. Looking forward to have in a very near future a place where we can stay.

The worst lounge experience, I have ever had.

YOTEL Paris Airport – Dumpster Fire on Display

This place is TRASH. Absolute TRASH. The second you walk in it smells like a damn pig farm. Not “airport funky,” not “a little off,” no — PIGS. You’re immediately hit in the face with filth.

Then you stand there like a fool waiting for somebody to even show up at the desk. When the attendant finally crawls out from the back, they’re rude, unbothered, and act like you’re inconveniencing them by existing. Excuse me? You work here. Try again.

Let’s talk about what’s inside: NOTHING. This is not a hotel. Not a hostel. Not a lounge. Not even a halfway decent waiting room. Just some bare walls, busted machines, and a sad little shelf of snacks that looked like they were stolen from a gas station two weeks ago. Coffee machine? Broken. Plates? Nonexistent. Forks? Nope. Actual food? Don’t make me laugh. Calling this place “YOTEL” is a scam in itself. It’s giving “storage closet with chairs.”

The bathroom — oh, the bathroom. I’ve smelled cleaner porta-potties at a state fair. Straight piss. Reeking like a dog park that’s been baking in the sun. You walk in and your nose hairs instantly regret it. Disgusting.

And don’t think you’ll find it easily. No, no. You’ll be wandering this oversized airport forever looking for this embarrassment, only to realize that leaving means going BACK through security. Who designed this mess? Fire them immediately.

YOTEL should be embarrassed to exist. This is Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, a major international hub, and THIS is what you’re offering travelers? Shameful. Where’s the Amex lounge when you need it? Paris, do better.

If I could give negative stars, I would. Zero isn’t low enough. This place is a scam, a dump, and a disgrace. Stay far, far away unless you enjoy wasting money and leaving with the smell of pig piss burned into your clothes.

You say "it’s the only lounge located in Terminal 2E." That's just not true, there are so many (and much better) lounges in 2E. I think you mean the only one at gate L in 2E?