make sure you http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/english/alertswarnings.html
Travel to Paris information:
Want to find a good place to eat and not be out a lot of money: Les Petites Tables
For Active Duty military ... you can also look at the military hotels:
Cercle National des Armées: Saint-Augustin or Hotel Sainte-Genevieve or Hotel LaCordaire
web: www.cnaparis.com
Instead of creating an account you can send them an email with your information:
- Your officer rank and your family name:- Your state: active
- The number of rooms and the number of guests per room:
- Date of arrival and date of departure:
- Your home address and your phone number:
Baggage Storage:
On the Metro level is a baggage locker/left luggage
room tucked into a corner behind some escalators. Baggage storage at
Paris train stations ranges from 5€ for small lockers to 9,50€ for large ones
fitting about 2 large roller suitcases. Maximum duration of storage is 48
hours. You’ll need to pass through a quick security checkpoint in order
to store your bags, not unlike the security done for boarding a plane.
A single ticket will take you
anywhere within the city of Paris on the Métro and RER networks, and you can
transfer between lines--or between the Métro and the RER (but not buses)--on
the same ticket. Keep hold of
your ticket until you have completed your journey, as you may be asked to show
it if tickets are being inspected. If you cannot produce proof of payment for
the ticket inspectors, you may risk paying a fine. This ticket, valid for zones
1 and 2, allows you to travel anywhere in Paris, and even beyond, since it will
take you to the end of each metro line, even if it is located in zone 3 (as for
example La Défense on line 1).
Sortie: Exit
Billets: Tickets to buy
a single ticket or hold up the number of fingers for how many tickets you want:
"un billet, s'il vous plait" each ticket is €1,70
Un carnet: Pack of ten metro tickets
A pack of metro tickets,
please: Un carnet, s'il
vous plaît. (Uhn kar-nay, seel
voo pleh) it will be €12,70
The ticket machines will not
take your credit card, it is best to use cash with them or just go to a window.
Eiffel Tower, Elevator
hours: 0930-2345; Stair hours 0930 – 1800.
In Jan and Feb they only sell the tickets to the top from the 2nd
floor because of weather. Prices: €8,50 using elevator to 2nd floor; stairs
are €5,00; to the top is €14.00
You can visit the Eiffel Tower at night, when the crowds are likely to be smaller and you can
enjoy the magic of the hourly light show from the viewing platforms. At Christmas there was a booth that let us
pre-buy a reservation/ticket for the restaurant Le 58 Tour and move to the
front of the elevator line. If they are
finished with renovating the restaurant (12.22.2012 per website) this is a
great place to eat lunch.
Can possibly buy tickets for
museums in advance:
Espace du Tourisme Ile de France
At the Carrousel du Louvre shopping centre
99, Rue de Rivoli, 1st arrondissement
Metro: Louvre-Rivoli or Palais Royal/Musee du Louvre
At the Carrousel du Louvre shopping centre
99, Rue de Rivoli, 1st arrondissement
Metro: Louvre-Rivoli or Palais Royal/Musee du Louvre
Louvre – is
open on Friday evenings from 6
p.m. to 9:45 p.m., admission to the permanent collections is free for under-26s
regardless of nationality (upon presentation of ID). Otherwise it is €11.00, but you don’t have to
stand in 2 lines on Friday night, just the one outside to both buy a ticket and
enter.
Musée d'Orsay /Musée de
l'Orangerie Passport
This
entrance ticket is valid, on the date purchased, for the permanent collections
and exhibitions of the museum where it was bought, and for a visit to the
permanent collections and exhibitions of the other museum within four
days. €14
The d’Orsay is free on first Sundays
Hours are: 9.30am to
6pm closed on Monday
Entrance A: individual visitors without ticket
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