I spent 24 hours at Charles De Gaulle trying out a hotel I had always been curious about.
The Mercure Paris CDG Airport and Conference Centre will be instantly recognisable as its the hotel immediately opposite the famous spotting mound near Roissy.
Although there is now a cluster of hotels in that spot, this is the oldest one having been there 35 years plus, recognisable by its "three legs".
To get to the hotel from any of the terminals or the mound take the CDG Val transit to the car park stop "Parking PR"
After putting an original request at booking and then following that up on check in, I was given top floor room 806 which looks east, back towards T3 and the mound, with T2 to the right, as shown in the photo below.
Aircraft were arriving from the West and the majority of movements could easily be seen with the limited exception of some arrivals on the northerly runways which went to T1 and turned off too early and couldn't be seen until their departure.
As shown on the room plan below, any even rooms from 804 to 818 will give you a view facing East, looking slightly north. Odd numbered rooms 861 to 873 (on the other leg) will give you a view facing East looking slightly south. In theory if the traffic was landing from the East, Le Bourget inbounds would be in view from those rooms. 806 is highlighted in yellow below.
