PARIS EMERGENCY!!! Help me!!! 17 year-old London girl 1st visit to Paris with group of friends.We need help!?

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Ok,here`s the problem... I`m 17, from London, and, my friends& I r going to Paris this Easter... we have already found a place to stay... and, it`s an apartment... The problem is, we have never been to Paris... and, don`t have any clue what Paris has... we only know Eiffel Tower( and, the whole world knows about this!!) and Disneyland..(again, another world-known fact)....so, I would really appreciate it, if you could give me any tips/suggestions/ideas/pointers or tell us where we should go.... My group of friends consisits of 3 girls( I`m one of the girls...) and 5 boys...please tell us where we should go.. or, the places we MUST go if we reach Paris... one more thing, eventhough we have already found a place to stay, if anyone knows a very, very, cheap place to stay in Paris, like some B&B inn, please tell me all about it.. coz, please bear in mind.... we r juz some teenagers with a very tight budget.... So, I hope whatever you tell me r free or really cheap.. Thanks a lot!!

and, if you wanna give me any websites, could you please make sure it`s not in French?? coz, I don`t learn French.. I took German in my GCSE`S...I researched for cheap places to stay, and, all, well, nearly all of them are in French.... it`s certainly not helping me!!!Thanks a lot again....

thanks a lot mel.. so, Louvre, Hard Rock Cafe and Palace of Versailles..any other places??? and, how do we take a bus to the Palace of Versailles??? Around how much Euro`s??? Thanks a lot again.. < hugs>

Answer 1

For places to stay, have you checked out hostel prices?

Here's a website (in english) with a group of Hostels that I am assured are very nice (I say "assured" because I'm an old geezer and don't stay in hostels myself). http://www.cheaphostel.com/

As to what to see:

1) Eiffel tower
2) Arc de Triomphe
3) Notre Dame
4) Sacre Coeur
5) Conciergerie
6) Champs elysee
7) Luxembourg Gardens
8) Tuilleries Gardens
9) Invalides
10) Sainte Chapelle

And then the major museums:
1) Louvre
2) Musee D'Orsay
3) Cluny Museum
4) Centre Pompidu

As for some things you could do aside from standard sightseeing.

You might find a restaurant called Nos Ancêtres les Gaulois (Our Celtic ancestors) at 39 rue St Louis en l'Ile on the l'Ile St Louis in the 4th arr. amusing. The gimmick here is that the staff are dressed up like Gauls, the ancient people of France. Troubadours walk around singing French folk songs. Moreover, its an all you can eat and all you can drink establishment. Check out their website here: http://www.nosancetreslesgaulois.com/uk/...

The Catacombs, a series of tunnels which, starting in 1785, have been used to house skeletons from various defunct cemeteries. The collection of bones is now into the millions. A sign reading "Arrête, c’est ici l’Empire de la Mort" (Stop, here is the empire of death) is over the entrance at 1 place Denfert-Rochereau in the 14th. Admission is €5 It is open: Tues - Sun 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Get there by Métro line 4 or 6, or RER B to the Denfert-Rochereau station.

There's also Les Égouts, the sewers of Paris. They were laid out in their present form in the 1850s during the reign of Napoléon III, at the same time that Haussmann was designing the grands boulevards. But Paris has had some form of waste disposal system since its days as a Roman city. There are tours which include a little movie about the system and its history and entrance to a museum dedicated to the sewers. The entrance is a stairway on the Seine side of the Quai d’Orsay, facing no. 93. Its open May - Sept: Sat - Wed 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Oct - April 11 a.m. and 4 p.m.

On Friday night inline skaters take to the streets of Paris in what is now called "Le Friday Night Fever." It has grown from a few dozen skaters when it started to about 5,000.

These skate meetings are only cancelled when it's raining. An escort of around two dozen police, some on skates, accompany the route to stop and divert traffic, and also around 50 officials who organise the skate and wear yellow T-shirts, carry and administer first aid and assist the police with traffic control.

No reservations are required. You just show up with your skates at the Place d'Italie at 10 and off you go.

Paris is a GREAT city. Have a wonderful time!

P.S. To get to Versailles take the Metro to the Pont De Sevres stop. Exit the station and you will see a long covered bus stop. There is a bus that is clearly marked with a destination of Versailles. Ride it to the last stop and you will be at the gates of the Chateau. The bus ride will require three metro tickets in each direction (a total of 6). When you get on the bus take the three tickets and insert them in the slot of the ticket machine nect to the driver. The machine punchs them and then you remove and save them (to prove you paid).

P.P.S. If you're interested in the Hard Rock Cafe I have a buddy who produces shows there and at at several other well known nightclubs in Paris. If you're interested I might be able to get you a special deal there if he's doing something during the time you're in Paris.

Answer 2

There's the Louvre, a famous museum, that is worth seeing. It has everything from ancient Eygpt to the Mona Lisa, something for all. There's also a hard rock cafe in Paris, where you can get those cool Hard Rock Cafe t-shirts! Excellent food.

I recommend going to the Eiffel Tower at night, the lights are spectacular! Very beautiful!

If you're able to catch a bus just slightly out of town, there's the Palace of Versailles. It's a major attraction with beautiful gardens, and the palace is set up with grand chandliers just like it was when it was in use.

My other recommendation would be to pick up brochures at the hotel. Ask the hotel clerk what sites to see. Also, this is crucial, keep a business card of the hotel, with the number and address on it. Ask the hotel clerk if there is not one in the room. This is in case you get lost, you can just hand the card to a cabbie, and tell them to take you there.

Have fun!!! I also visited Paris around Easter, about a decade ago.

Answer 3

Well go hand around the Quartier Latin, visit the Louvres if you're into museums, walk the Champs-Elysees, check the Lafayette Galeries.

Answer 4

> Is it tax-deductible. I don't know

> because I've never been out

> of town, much less to Paris.



> www.travel.com

> they have forums too. Site is 8 or more
> years old.


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