Mercure Eiffel

... tower is 889 feet tall. As we arrived at the tower we were swarmed by people selling all kinds of Eiffel Tower trinkets.  We made our way past them, although with less money than we came with, and boarded ...

... tower is 889 feet tall. As we arrived at the tower we were swarmed by people selling all kinds of Eiffel Tower trinkets.  We made our way past them, although with less money than we came with, and boarded ...

... , checked into our hotel, which can I just say, I had the BEST shower in over a year - no need to wear your thongs in the mercure!!! Eiffel Tower the first night, so nice to go up the top at night as I had done it in the day last time. The next day ...

We had a great day of exploring Paris!  We had time in the city to check stuff out, then, later, we went to dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe Paris.  When it was sundown, we went up to view the city from the Eiffle Tower.  We had a lovely ...

... entering the city we drive past the iconic images of the Louvre Museum, the Arc de Triomphe, Notre Dame Cathedral, and the Eiffel Tower. We disembark near the Champs Elysees and take photos near the Arc de Triomphe, a monument erected under the order of ...

... on the bus with Patrick, our local dishevelled Parisian guide who couldn't really tell me how long it took to build the Eiffel tower (it's 2 years, 2 months and 5 days according to the info boards)..but he was amusing enough and knowlegable enough about ...

... figurines of the tower for 5 euros. I bought 2 and have one sitting in my room at home. There was also little gold and silver Eiffel Tower keyrings for 1 euro. I bought 6 of them to give my friends back at home. Our lift got stuck going up the tower (LOL) ...

... hand was brutal (for us fragile Americans) and most of us wished we had a scarf, hat. Coat, etc.             After the Eiffel Tower, we took a boat ride down the river to see some of the sights of Paris more up close.  We floated by ...

... who wanted to go in at that moment.  Very complicating!         When we reached the Eiffel Tower, we understood why there were so few people along the other parts of the Seine.  Most of them had ...

... a few minutes. Went for dinner in the Latin Quarter and then got lost on the way back to the hotel! Hung out under the Eiffel Tower for a little while on our second morning. Caught the "bato-bus" to the Notre Dame. Visited Saint-Chapelle (beautiful!!). ...

... didn't buy tickets to walk around in them (it was rainy and cold).  When we left the Palace, we saw a few men with Eiffel Tower souvenirs.  There were about 10 of them, and we knew that they were gypsys.  To our delight the police showed ...

... a run down on France/Paris for like an hour, so before we knew it..it was 3.45pm and we were at the Mercure hotel in Defense 5 business district. Our allocated hotel room sucked. On a smoking floor so stale cigarette smell was permiated everywhere and ...

... to our hotel just a short walk down the road near Opera Garnier.   I have to give special mention to our hotel, the Mercure Hotel Ronchery, as despite being the most expensive hotel of the trip, it was also by far the worst one we had stayed in. ...

... The visit in June was perfect timed to create a break in my work schedule, and that worked perfectly. I stayed at one of the Mercure hotels, which was quite adequate though a trifle small. The major point in the visit was to reaffirm my faith in one of ...

... found the Paris Shuttle. This shuttle service was booked ahead of time on the Internet and it was quite good. We arrived at the Hotel Mercure on Rue de la Sorbonne at about 12:30 pm where we met the hotel desk clerk who we called "Collette" for the ...

... a little Italian place near the hotel, we headed into town to do the one big thing we hadn't done on our visit to Paris. The Eiffel Tower. We have both been up the Eiffel Tower before, although the last time I was so hungover I came straight back down and ...