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CDG Air France La Première Lounge

CDG Air France La Première Lounge

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July 2021

The most amazing La Première Lounge experience... ever!

Pulling into our gate.

Our La Première Personal Assistant Anya greeted us in the jet bridge at the 1L door and escorted down to our BMW.

For the very short drive to the La Première Lounge.

After a brief doc check, we were waived thru the Lounge's private security and escorted up the elevator to the best airport lounge on the planet.  Looking even better with its refresh last year.

 

The  newly remodeled bar area.  Gorgeous.

Time to check out the shower, spa and rest area.  Whoa, WTF?  One of the LP guest's woof-woof decided to explore on his own.  LOL.

Enough of the tour, now for the 9 hours of sheer decadence.  A glass of the Bruno Paillard Rosé pour commencer.

While we plotted today's gastro journey with Alain Ducasse.

Showtime, Round 1.   My croque-volaille was out of this world, with comté and truffe noir.  

O-M-G.

For my main, the John Dory was exquisite... Saint-pierre au naturel, Swiss chard and grenobloise garnish.

DFW-CK enjoyed the iconic Coquillettes.

For dessert, he loved his Glace vanille "noyée". Vanilla ice cream flood with coffee and praline.

My Baba au Rhum was delicious.

After we relaxed a bit and edited some trip pics, I headed off to explore and shower.

A little later,  more Bruno Paillard and a mid afternoon snack.

The cheese selections from Marie-Anne Cantin were amazing.

As was the delicious Laurent Laborie charcuterie plate.

By this time, it was approaching 4pm and mom, daughter and woof-woof were gone from the sleeping "rooms" so we power napped for 90 minutes or so.

Now with a 2nd wind, time to head for the bar and try the Grey Goose Ducasse Martini.

Pre-dinner apéritif with nuts.

And Showtime, Round 3.

I started with the incredible pâté en croûte, chicken and duck foie gras, with Sauternes.

DFW-CK went with the John Dory while I chose the Filet de bouef aux poivres with pomme purée.

This was outstanding.  Perfectly prepared and so delicious.

Both of our desserts were fabulous... the Cookpot de fraises with pistachio and diplomate cream.

And my Palet "La Première" au chocolate with bleu, blanc and rouge garnish.  Simply marvelous.

By this time, it was just after 8pm and 45 minutes from our CDG-ATH departure.  Sadly, our nearly 9 hours of La Première decadence was coming to an end.  We enjoyed every moment of it and quite frankly could have spent a few more hours here.

April 2021

La Première Lounge (temporary) at CDG

As door 1L opened, I bid adieu to the wonderful Anne and was met by my PA for the next 90 minutes.  We walked down the stairs from the jetbridge to our waltiing BMW 7 series....

And pulled into the lower level of Terminal 2E some five minutes later.

Sadly, there is no private La Première security during Covid and although my PA cut to the front on the line, we got the line seemingly staffed with incompetent blood relatives of Inspector Clouseau.  It took 10 minutes for my backback and laptop to finally make it thru the conveyor as these clowns disappeared, then returned, removed bags, rescanned them ahead of mine, disappeared the returned, all the while having trouble getting the conveyor moving again.   After this, it was a short walk to current temporary La Première Lounge, located on the mezzanine level of the Business Class Lounge.  The mezzanine has its own secret door which and the La Première Lounge agent was waiting for us at the door as we arrived.  Not nearly as nice as the regular La Première Lounge, but it worked today for my all too short visit. 

Ahh.  That's more like it.

Today's Alain Ducasse menu, somewhat abbreviated from the main menu.  But still will all the classics.

Oh yeah.

I started with the decadent Pate en croute dde volaille et foie gras de canard.  OMG, this was wonderful.

And naturally, my all time fave, Coquillettes jambon/truffe noir aka Mac and cheese Alain Ducasse style.  Fabulous as always.  With another glass of Champagne.

My PA had given me a 2:45pm departure time which seemed a little rushed considering there were only 44 passengers on the entire flight.  Much to her chagrin, I wanted a shower and did convince her that I would be very fast. So we headed downstairs to the Business Class part of the lounge where I rushed and was in and out and dressed in 7 minutes.  And off to the races.

December 2019

Monday morning and sadly, it's time to head home.  Not much traffic this morning and we were at Terminal 2E by 10:30am, just 40 minutes after we left the apartment.   La Première passengers have a separate drop off area at Porte 14...

... where a porter greeted us...

... and escorted us with our bags to the La Première check in lounge.

We gave our passports to our Personal Assistant, who went off to check us in.

A few minutes later, she escorted us to passport control and security using private La Première lanes each step of the way. 

And tthe to the La Première Lounge.

Beautifully decorated for Christmas.

We were the only passengers in the lounge since we arrived after the wave of morning flights had departed.

 

We headed to the dining area at around 11:30am for our date with Alain Ducasse.

We both ordered our favorite coquillettes jambon-comté-truffes, aka mac n cheese.

Which looked and tasted a little different from before... with a lot more veal stock.  Still excellent but we prefer the non veal stock version at Champeaux.

For dessert, one more rum baba for the road.  :)

 

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