Hotel Lyon Bastille

... to stay in Contiki's Chateau de Cruix in the vineyards, but due to rennovations we stayed in a hotel in Lyon. It wasn't all bad though, because it was Bastille Day (French Day) like our Australia Day. So there was plenty of celebrations going on in ...

... of Paris, to the Marais neighborhood and the Bastille. It is a wonderful old-world neighborhood that kept me dazzled. Arriving at Hotel Lyon Mulhouse, I discarded my bags and set out on foot, phrase book and map in hand, for a whirlwind first day. ...

... was even in Paris, but tucked the idea away in my noggin for future reference. Once I checked-in at Hotel Lyon Mulhouse, in the Bastille neighborhood, I decided to get my bearings by following Rick Steves' walking tour of the Marais, which starts ...

... to Gare de Lyon station where our train to Nice was leaving from. We had to catch one train from just near our hotel to a station called Bastille, then change lines and head one more station down to Gare de Lyon. All good in principle. We made it Bastille ...

... didn't walk through the door till 7:20. Still, at least I got here and it didn't cost a fortune. The hotel is the Pavillon Saint Louis Bastille (www.pavillonsaintlouisbastille.com), and it's nice enough. My room is very small, but I won't be spending much ...

... But we're here.  My niece Stephanie met us at the airport and accompanied us into Paris to the hotel, and then we had some lunch in Bastille.  Later we went for a walk around the Marais - wandered through a few galleries at Place ...

Wednesday, July 14 – Bastille Day Six o’clock in the morning is really early! We got as ready as possible, packing everything but our toothbrushes, and were the first people down for breakfast this morning. Surprisingly, there was a ...

... absolutely gorgeous, sunny, blue sky weather. It was freezing, but I can tolerate cold as long as there's sunshine. Our hotel was in the Bastille area, which turned out to be a perfect location. There was a narrow street right by our hotel filled with ...

Last night Fletcher and I had our own La Chaines dinner. We went to a great restaurant, Bofinger, close by our hotel at La Place de Bastille. This was first class, with great service and comfortable ambience. We had a three course meal with wine at less ...

... niece Stephanie and her friend, Emma.  Since we've been out of town Stephanie has moved into her apartment in Bastille in preparation for finishing her au pair job and starting at photography college.  The apartment is amazing - small but ...

... touristy day which was spent on and off the double-decker tour bus. We saw Notre-Dame, Saint-Michel, Champs-Élysées,Eiffel Tour, Bastille Opera, National Library of France, and many more.  While we did not make it to all 50 stops in one day, ...

... down to Interlaken, then from there to Basel. We changed trains there to ride the final 3 hours into Paris. Our hotel is next to La Place De Bastille and not far from the Rue De Rivoli and Le Marais. We had a nice dinner in a small restaurant in La Place ...

... personnes annonyme...COUGH, Chris, sam Sarah, COUGH... désolé j'ai toussé, pour que je lâche l'ordi. On s'en va visiter la bastille de Grenoble. aller voir sa sur Internet c'est super beau. A bientot Frank, le Barman! P.S. Chuis sur que c'est grace a ...

... lady that we saw from before. She pushes around her cart full of items and makes sure to yell at anyone in Place de Bastille. She's also pretty good about buying some wine and sharing it with the other homeless folks. We nicknamed her Mme. Thenardier for ...

... on Thursday morning to catch our flight. We arrived and took a bus to the hotel, with no complications. The hotel was located about a one-minute walk from the Bastille. Most of the group went on the planned bus tour of the city, but I wasn't in the ...