Day 6 – Back to KL
7:00am – Depart from apartment to Airport
Ben the taxi driver who we booked on the 1st day arrived on time. Parisian start work early, it is a bit jammed on our way to Orly Airport. We directly check-in after an hour of drive. After the immigration, we stop at a chocolate shop to buy some chocolates though it is not duty free zone yet. We proceed to pass the custom. To our surprise, there are very long queue. We started to get worry after 30 minutes as the queue didn’t seem moving at all and we doesn’t have much time left to the gate. Elder sis was getting anxious and worried as she suddenly remembered that she had kept a small knife as the gift to my nephew in her hand luggage. We just asked her to be calm and pretend nothing.
We never thought that the custom is that extremely strict. Each of the visitors must take off the jacket and shoes as well before entering the security gate. All liquid containers must take out and put into the zip transparent plastic bag in front of the officer.
We already been queuing for an hour plus for this custom check and we just left 30 minutes to run to our boarding gate. Sis got lucky as the small knife is being wrapped with paper and the officer thought is the French famous “bom bom” candy that giving the alarm.
We ran as fast possible to the gate. That’s make us have no time to walk around the duty free shop. What a regrettable. (Our flight actually is 10:30am).
The moral of the incident: Spend at least 4 hours to Airport. If there is plenty of time, you can always enjoy shopping at the duty free shops or even enjoy a cup of coffee.
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