I'm going to Paris for Easter and a few days, can anyone please suggest which district to stay in, I get very confused...
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1. find St Michel metro station on a map: that is about the centre of most places that a normal tourist will want to go to on a visit.Originally posted by Lucy View Post
2. beside that is the Left Bank alias Latin Quarter alias Quartier Latin, say South/up the hill to the Pantheon, West/downstream to the Pont des Arts (bridge across Sein to Louvre), East/upstream to Mauber/Mutualite metro or thereabouts. The core area of this around St Michel is very touristy but Parisians go there too. Plenty of hotels here.
3. the Marais is more trendy, or at least it was 10 years ago.
4. Arrondissements 1-9 should all be OK. 17 is OK but not interesting. 14 is a continuation of the Quartier Latin but is a bit off-centre. 11 is the Marais.Comment
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Which are the areas best avoided ?Originally posted by expat View PostHow fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't thinkComment
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We stayed in a best western hotel which was right by the Louvre and the metro. Really central and quite reasonable. Would go there again."Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. "
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All the othersOriginally posted by Troll View Post
OK, 10 & 18-20 are immigrant areas, more fun if you are a resident but less on beaten track for a tourist (it's where I went for Patak's). 12 is old dockland: some rough areas, some done-up e.g. Bercy stadium.
13 is Chinatown but also lots of social housing, and railway yards for E/SE.
15 is normal inexpensive (relatively!) housing, OK but of no interest to a tourist. A couple of repertory cinemas, and the Metro lost property office.
16 is Belgravia. 17 see 15.
Espere que ceci t'aide....Comment
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Be warned there are two metro stations called "Charles de Gaulle"... one is the airport and the other isn't.
In fact it couldn’t be much further from the airport…
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I often drive by CdG on the way up from the Med... shame Paris doesn't have a proper M25esque ring roadOriginally posted by gingerjedi View PostBe warned there are two metro stations called "Charles de Gaulle"... one is the airport and the other isn't.
In fact it couldn’t be much further from the airport…How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't thinkComment
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"Aeroport Charles de Gaulle" on the RER; "Charles de Gaulle Etoile" on the Metro, at the Arc de Triomphe.Originally posted by gingerjedi View PostBe warned there are two metro stations called "Charles de Gaulle"... one is the airport and the other isn't.
In fact it couldn’t be much further from the airport…Comment
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