Paris Small Hotels

... , email or fax. That's from airline tickets to hotels to tickets for a German musical! We stayed in small family-run hotels (1 - 3 stars) and leased a Renault. Our itinerary included: France, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, Germany, Switzerland, ...

... being in a metro. And need I mention that now almost everyone speaks English. I’m not just talking about at hotels and main tourist attractions I’m talking about everyone in the service industry – café’s, creperies and fast food ...

... Vendome. We saw the entrance to the Ritz hotel but were disappointed by it. I don't know what I was expecting but other hotels have a much prettier and grander frontage than this famous one. Next we took the metro to somewhere between St Louis and Cite. ...

... 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 favorite museums, the Musee ...

... well done museum. The D-Day movie was good (we skipped the last movie) and there were some interesting photos. Two were from Paris - they showed two monuments - The Obelisk at Place de Concorde and a statue on Pont Neuf - covered in sandbags to try to ...

... re-immersed ourselves into the Parisian atmosphere and began to plan out the next week. The next morning, we successfully switched hotels and headed straight for the Notre Dame Cathedral to try and catch the choir for the All Saints Day service. We ...

... complaints with the Disney system, the strategy worked on me.  Our family has chosen to stay at the resort hotels both in Anaheim and in Paris.    However, now that we live in Paris, it seemed ridiculous to avoid at least making an attempt ...

... -Élysées. The first stretch of the avenue was that broad, tree-lined section you see in old newsreels. The remainder was lined with hotels, shops and restaurants. Not since Rome had we seen so many tourists in the one place at the same time. The Arc de ...

... to be activated again.  Why, Oh Why did Tom change to Telstra.  So to get new confirmations for train, hotels etc I had to create a hotmail email and hope that Telstra come good within 48hrs for all our future reservations.  Three ...

... eyes on the Eiffel Tower, so we went there, walking along the rue de Rivoli and in front of many of the more expensive hotels in Paris. One of them has rooms that start at over 350E a night and they actually charge 19E a day for internet service.  ...

... expect by now, this proved a lot more difficult than we'd expected, with the area apparently being flush with expensive hotels, but completely devoid of hostels or shitty cheap establishments. The cheaper end of the expensive hotels all seemed to be ...

... expect if the hotel promised that there's a wifi connection available in the room. However, that's not the case for most of the hotels that I go to in France. To be fair, they aren't expensive, but a promise broken is a promise broken. This hotel didn't ...

... to go to the bus area (next to the station) and get the pink bus No54, which goes to MyTravel, Movenpick, Kyriad and Holiday Inn hotels. The day we arrived, after check-in, we took the bus back to Disney Village and walked around. We had lunch at New York ...

... and English for a half hour before heading to a Scottish bar called Highlander´s. We left soon after and headed back to our hotels. The following morning I took a 5:30 metro to the Gare du Nord to catch the RER to the airport. I made my 8:00 AM ...

... twice and showed him the address just to make sure that we were on the right bus. We were and the two Premiere Class Roissy hotels were just less than 5 minutes away from each other ( why does two hotels belonging to the same company is so near each other ...

... as Le Bon Marche and Galeries Lafayette . Or, if that is too intimidating, there are just as many small specialty shops pretty much all over Paris.   You should also know a little about the experience of shopping for lingerie in ...

... are traveling with a partner or friend, small apartments are a great value compared to a private hostel rooms or even 2 star hotels and the quality is much better. Plus you can go to the markets and cook yourself fresh french feasts instead of ...

... , site seeing and photos, so we decided to retire to our humble abode and watch a little French TV on our small black box...Bon Soir! Day 2 in Paris: We woke up around 9 am, myself having a wonderful night's sleep after many sleepless nights in his humid ...

... our stay.  The tourist information booth was not at all helpful, so the pressure to speak French was on Chad to call hotels and find us a place.  After we figured out how exactly to use a payphone (who uses those dirty payphones anymore?), he ...