Can I Store My Luggage At CDG Airport?

Can I Store My Luggage At CDG Airport?

Yes, you can store luggage at CDG, but only at one place: the official left-luggage desk in Terminal 2, operated by Bagages du Monde, open every day from 07:00 to 21:00. There is no Radical Storage point at Charles de Gaulle, so if you want a bookable, flat-rate bag drop you need to take your bag into Paris and store it at a station storage point instead.

That two-part answer is the whole article in one breath, and it matters because the two halves are often confused online. Search for CDG luggage storage and you will find pages implying you can drop a bag anywhere airside, or that a storage network has counters in every terminal. Neither is true. Paris Aeroport, the airport operator, names exactly one provider, Bagages du Monde, and the operator's own page describes exactly one desk per airport: at CDG that is in Terminal 2, at the TGV station. If you are landing at Terminal 1 or Terminal 3, you should budget for a ride on the free CDGVAL shuttle to reach it.

The second half of the answer surprises people more. Radical Storage, the network this site works with, publishes a Charles de Gaulle page, but it carries zero storage points: it is a landing page with no inventory behind it. The honest routing advice, which the network's own copy agrees with, is to pick a storage point near one of the main Paris stations and access the airports from there. For a full walkthrough of the airport options, see the companion guide to CDG airport luggage storage options.

So the real decision is not "CDG or nothing". It is the official airport desk versus a city storage point near the station you will use anyway, and that depends on your connection, your budget and how many hours you have. The rest of this article gives you the numbers for both sides.

Where Exactly Is The Left-Luggage Desk At CDG?

The desk is in Terminal 2, at the TGV station, and the two official sources disagree on the level: Paris Aeroport says level 0 in the exchange hall, while the operator says level 4, opposite the Sheraton hotel at the CDGVAL arrival point. Hours are 07:00 to 21:00, seven days a week, and the operator's terms claim a wider 06:00 to 22:00 depending on terminals.

That level contradiction is not a typo on our part; it is live on both pages and worth knowing before you circle a car park looking for the right floor. The airport operator's own page places the service in Terminal 2, level 0, in the exchange hall at the CDG 2 TGV station, while the operator's own left-luggage page says Terminal 2, TGV Station, Level 4, opposite the Sheraton at the CDGVAL arrival point. Both descriptions point to the same part of the airport, the TGV station complex at the heart of Terminal 2, so follow signs for the Gare TGV and the Sheraton and you will land within a walk of it either way.

One practical warning that almost nobody publishes: the desk accepts a national ID card or a passport only. The operator states plainly that luggage is checked in after an identity check taking those two documents, then X-rayed, then scanned and stored. A driving licence will not get your bag accepted, which is a detail that has caught out more than one traveller used to locker rooms that ask for nothing at all.

On hours, publish the conservative figure. Two of the three sources, the operator's own desk page and the airport operator's page, say 07:00 to 21:00. The same company's terms page claims 06:00 to 22:00 depending on terminals. If your flight leaves at 06:55 or lands at 21:40, do not build a plan around the wider window; check before relying on an early or late slot.

What Does CDG Airport Luggage Storage Cost?

The operator publishes an indicative price list: carry-on bags from EUR 3 per hour or EUR 10 per day, medium bags from EUR 4 per hour or EUR 15 per day, and large bags from EUR 5 per hour or EUR 20 per day, with a minimum storage duration of 2 hours and a maximum of 30 days. These are the operator's own indicative rates, not an observed checkout total.

That price list, published on the operator's terms page, is the single most useful document for anyone budgeting a CDG stopover, and it is worth reading carefully because the structure is nothing like a city storage point. City storage through Radical Storage is a flat EUR 3.90 per bag per day plus a EUR 1.99 per-bag checkout fee, one bag for one day totalling EUR 5.89. The airport desk instead prices by size and by hour, which makes short stops expensive and long stops very expensive: a large suitcase stored for a full day at the indicative EUR 20 rate costs more than three times the city equivalent.

The word indicative is the operator's own, and the page adds that detailed and updated rates are available on its website, so treat these as planning figures rather than a quote. The terms also mention "deductible prices starting from 3 days" without a worked example, so if you are storing for longer than a weekend, ask at the desk what the three-day-plus rate actually is before committing.

Optional extras are priced separately and can add up quickly. Supplemental cover for value up to EUR 3,000 costs EUR 5 per EUR 500 of declared value, reinforced packaging is EUR 10 per bag, and priority service is EUR 15. There is also a delivery option: your bag transported between Paris intra-muros and the airports from EUR 25 per bag, or between CDG and Orly from EUR 35 per bag, with a 50 percent surcharge for delivery in under three hours. Payment at the desk takes Visa, Mastercard, American Express, CB, PayPal, Apple Pay and Google Pay, which contrasts with several SNCF station lockers that still take coins only.

Can I Store A Bag At CDG With Radical Storage Instead?

No. Radical Storage has no storage point at Charles de Gaulle; its airport page exists but carries zero inventory, and its own copy routes airport readers toward storage near the main Paris stations. If you want a Radical Storage bag drop, the nearest practical options are in the city, above all around Gare du Nord on the RER B line from CDG.

This is worth stating plainly rather than burying it, because a reader handing a suitcase to a stranger deserves to know exactly whose service covers it. Every storage point this site recommends is a real Radical Storage partner location, a shop, hotel or cafe holding bags behind a counter, and this site neither owns nor operates any of them. Radical Storage itself publishes no hourly tariff anywhere in Paris, so its product and the airport desk's hourly product are simply different things. Other pages covering the same trip are gathered on Luggage Storage in Paris.

The routing logic is straightforward. The RER B runs from both CDG terminals into central Paris, and Gare du Nord is the first major station it reaches. Around Gare du Nord this site publishes 10 storage points, rated 4.75 across 2,937 reviews, at EUR 3.90 per bag per day plus the EUR 1.99 checkout fee, with the earliest opening at 07:30 and the latest closing at 23:59 across the cluster. A traveller landing at CDG with a six-hour gap before a night train can ride into Gare du Nord, drop the bag, spend the afternoon unencumbered and collect it on the way back through.

For a deeper look at how the booking, the guarantee and the drop-off actually work, read how Radical Storage works in Paris. The short version: book online, show the confirmation at the partner business, and the bag goes behind their counter rather than into a locker, since the partners are shops and hotels rather than locker banks.

Which Paris Stations Work Best For A CDG Connection?

Gare du Nord is the natural CDG gateway, with 10 Radical Storage points and a direct RER B link to the airport. Porte Maillot suits the west of the city and Orly connections, and Gare de Bercy is the budget outlier where the network's rare EUR 1.90 rate actually appears, making it the cheapest bag drop in the Radical Storage Paris lineup.

Choosing a station storage point is mostly about which line your day already runs along. If you are flying in or out of CDG, the RER B is almost certainly part of your journey, and Gare du Nord, Chatelet-Les-Halles and Gare du Lyon all sit on or near it. Porte Maillot, on RER A and line 1, is a better fit if your day points west toward the Arc de Triomphe or La Defense, though it is a small cluster: four storage points on this site's Porte Maillot pages, rated 4.68 from 518 reviews, open 08:30 to 21:00, at the standard EUR 3.90 per bag per day plus the EUR 1.99 fee.

Bercy deserves a special note because it is the one place in Paris where the advertised "from EUR 1.90" price is real. Across 329 Paris location cards counted in research, only 10 showed EUR 1.90 and all of them sit in the Bercy cluster, with three more cards at EUR 5. Everywhere else in the city the rate is EUR 3.90. Bercy also has no in-station SNCF consigne at all, per SNCF's own 13-station list, so the Radical Storage points there, four of them rated 4.76 across 466 reviews, are genuinely the only realistic option in that corner of the 12th arrondissement.

Hours matter more than price for a CDG day-tripper, and this is where the per-point rule bites. Opening hours vary by storage point and are often ordinary shop hours; the Gare du Nord Grandes Lignes point runs 08:30 to 20:00, while others in the same cluster open earlier or close later. Never assume a storage point is open around the clock, and always check the specific point's own hours before booking a late collection. For more on the timing question, see late-night and Sunday bag storage in Paris.

What Can't You Leave At The CDG Left-Luggage Desk?

The operator refuses luggage containing hazardous, flammable, explosive or toxic products, weapons and ammunition, perishable goods or fresh produce, live animals, narcotics, counterfeit goods, and radioactive or chemical items. Discovery of a prohibited item means refusal of service with no refund, and the company may inform the authorities.

That list is the only fully published prohibited-items list for any Paris storage operator, and it comes straight from the operator's terms, so it is worth reading before you queue. It is broader than most people expect. The perishables line catches travellers who were planning to leave a bag of market produce or a cheese haul while they sightsee, and the counterfeit line is enforced more often than visitors assume at a Paris airport.

The security procedure itself is more thorough than anything a city storage point offers. After the identity check, each bag is X-rayed, then scanned and stored for as long as necessary. That is a genuine point in the airport desk's favour if your worry is who has access to your bag, and it is a concrete, published procedure rather than a marketing promise. The trade-off is friction: the identity check, the X-ray and the hourly pricing all take time, which is exactly what a short stopover does not have.

City storage points work differently, and the honest comparison cuts both ways. A Radical Storage booking carries the network's guarantee, advertised at EUR 10,000 per bag but capped at EUR 3,000 per claim in the binding terms, which also state plainly that it is not a contract of insurance. Claims must be notified within seven days, and a signed itemised list of the bag's contents with estimated values is a condition of any claim, so photograph your packed bag and its contents before you hand it over. If a bag is stolen, the police report is on a 48-hour clock. None of that is a reason to avoid the network; it is simply what the terms actually say, and knowing it makes you a better-protected customer.

Is It Cheaper To Store At CDG Or In The City?

For anything longer than a few hours, the city is cheaper: one bag for one day at a Radical Storage point costs EUR 5.89 in total (EUR 3.90 plus the EUR 1.99 fee), against the airport desk's indicative EUR 10 to EUR 20 per day by bag size. The airport desk only wins when the alternative is hauling a bag into Paris and back for a two-hour gap.

Run the arithmetic on published figures and the gap widens fast. A medium suitcase at CDG for one day is indicatively EUR 15; the same bag at Gare du Nord is EUR 3.90 plus EUR 1.99, or EUR 5.89. For three days the airport figure is not published as a simple multiple, but even at the daily rate it would sit near EUR 45, while the city cost is EUR 3.90 times three plus the one-time EUR 1.99, which is EUR 13.69, because the checkout fee is charged once per bag and does not scale with nights. The official SNCF station lockers sit in between: EUR 5.50 to EUR 9.50 for a fixed 24 hours depending on locker size, then EUR 5 per further day, cheaper than the airport and sometimes cheaper than the network for long stays.

The counter-argument is real, though. If you have a five-hour layover and no plans to enter Paris at all, the RER B round trip plus a station bag drop is more effort and more money than walking to the Terminal 2 desk, paying the two-hour minimum and walking back. The airport desk also does not require you to plan ahead, whereas the cheapest city strategy usually means booking a specific storage point before you land. For a longer stopover, the cost of luggage storage in Paris breaks down every option including the station lockers.

One more timing fact worth knowing: the CDG Express rail link, promised for years, is not running yet. Trade press reports put its opening at 28 March 2027, running non-stop between Gare de l'Est and CDG in 20 minutes, more than three years behind its original pre-Olympics target. When it opens, Gare de l'Est becomes an airport-link station, which will change where CDG travellers want their bag drop. Until then, the RER B and Gare du Nord remain the workhorses, and that is exactly where the deepest storage coverage already sits.

Common Questions About Storing Luggage At CDG Airport

Can I Store My Luggage At CDG Airport?

Yes, at the official Bagages du Monde desk in Terminal 2, at the TGV station, open 07:00 to 21:00 every day. Indicative rates run from EUR 3 per hour or EUR 10 per day for a carry-on up to EUR 5 per hour or EUR 20 per day for a large bag. There is no Radical Storage point at CDG itself; the nearest bookable bag drops are at Paris stations such as Gare du Nord.

Is there a Radical Storage point inside Charles de Gaulle airport?

No. Radical Storage's CDG page exists but lists zero storage points. The network's own copy routes airport readers to storage near the main Paris stations. If you need a bag drop tied to a CDG journey, Gare du Nord, on the RER B line from the airport, has 10 storage points at EUR 3.90 per bag per day plus the EUR 1.99 checkout fee.

What ID do I need to leave a bag at the CDG left-luggage desk?

A national identity card or a passport, and nothing else. The operator states that luggage is checked in after an identity check accepting those two documents only, then X-rayed and stored. A driving licence will not be accepted, so check your documents before you queue.

Can I store a bag at CDG for just one hour?

No. The airport operator's terms set a minimum storage duration of 2 hours and a maximum of 30 days. Pricing is by duration and bag size, from an indicative EUR 3 per hour for a carry-on. Radical Storage publishes no hourly tariff at all in Paris; its rate is a flat EUR 3.90 per bag per day plus a EUR 1.99 per-bag checkout fee.

Is the CDG left-luggage desk open at night?

No. The working published hours are 07:00 to 21:00, seven days a week, agreed by the operator's own page and the airport operator's page. The same company's terms claim a wider 06:00 to 22:00 depending on terminals, but do not rely on that for an early or late slot without checking first. For night arrivals, storing at a city station point with late hours is usually the better plan.

What can I not leave in CDG luggage storage?

The operator refuses hazardous, flammable, explosive or toxic products, weapons and ammunition, perishable goods or fresh produce, live animals, narcotics, counterfeit goods, and radioactive or chemical items. If a prohibited item is found, service is refused with no refund and the authorities may be informed.