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Am travelling to Paris end of Oct and would welcome suggestions on places to visit, hotels, food and transport?

I’m planning a vacation to Paris end of October for 4D3N. I have myself a list of attractions that I plan to see in Paris … Eiffel Tower, Louvre, Champs Elysees, Notre Dame, Arc de Triomphe, Seine River, is there anything else that I can fit into my short trip?

Wow! So many questions! I’ll try to answer them:
To visit – You need to visit the city. Paris has very special atmospheres which are different in every district and I consider that the best way to really know the city is to walk it through, turn corners, enter little shops etc. In 4 days you don’t have much time. I lived there for some years and came back several times and I feel still don’t know everything about it.
Louvre will take you more than one day. Possibly you could spend all the four days in it. So I would suggest you to decide first which section of it you want to visit and stick to it. Musée d’Orsay is another beautiful Museum where the most important impressionists works are. The museum in itself is worth the visit. It is a former trein station and is really amazing.
I prefer to rent apartments instead of taking an hotel room when I go to Paris. I found out that the price is more or less the same but the quality is often better and you have the feeling to be really part of the city. I use always the same company to rent apartments in Paris and they always gave me a very good service. Here is the link to their site: http://www.paris-apartment-rent.com/index.html.
Food is great everywhere you go in Paris. I suggest you to avoid take away chinese restaurants and stick to french cuisine. Since you are in Paris you should really experience this. I suggest you a brasserrie at Place des Vosges in the 4th district of Paris which is called Victor Hugo. It is very small and very parisian. The food is good and not too expensive. The environment also is very special.
Have a very good time in Paris!

Hotel Moliere, Paris

Anyone recommend EXCLUSIVE LUXURY hotels in PARIS for 3 nights?

will go up to 500 euros / £300 / $600 per night

You’re coming in a bit too low for a genuinely “exclusive luxury” hotel on Paris (especially when you say it in capitals).

The rack rate for the cheapest room at Le Bristol, for example, is 710 euros .

http://www.hotel-bristol.com/default.htm

Other such high end hotels are:

The Meurice Paris Plaza

The Crillion (http://www.crillon.com/crillon.html)

The Ritz – also 710 euros a night (http://www.ritz.com/home_ritz/home_ritz.asp?show_all=1)

The Plaza Athenee

The Hotel Four Seasons George V rack rate is 730 euros (http://www.fourseasons.com/paris/)

Paris Luxury Hotels – Palaces

Hotel Du Louvre Banquet Photo Mugs At the Hotel du Louvre, a banquet is offered to the commissioners of the Paris Exposition ….

Public Transportation in Paris? Also Cheap Hotel?

I am taking a cruise from Barcelona and before that I will like to fly to Paris(CDG) for a day and see
1) The Eiffel Tower
2) The Louvre
3) The Champs Elysees
4) Notre Dame
and stay at cheap place and either fly next day or take midnight train to Barcelona. I have found a reasonable priced hotel near airport(CDG)in town of VILLEPINTE. I will like the advice with public transportation and reasonable priced hotel.
any advice is much appreciated.

No wonder the hotel in Villepinte is cheap, it’s one of the most dangerous cities in France! Don’t stay there, it could be pretty dangerous to head back to your hotel at night after visiting Paris.

I don’t really know what your schedule is and if it is important for you to sleep near the airport, but the airport is located very far from Paris in the middle of nowhere and the area between the airport and the city is bad.

If you know of a midnight train to Barcelona, don’t get a hotel room. If you prefer to fly the next day, stay in Paris anyway, with public transportation you are only 30 minutes from the airport. You will need to take RER B, it is direct to/from the city center (Notre Dame), easy and cheap.
http://www.ratp.fr/ You can display the page in English and view a map of the métro and RER network.

As for hotels, it depends what time of the year you are going but you can find cheap hotels in Paris. Since it’s just for a night and you’re just looking for a place to sleep, I suppose you’re not looking for anything fancy. You may want to check these sites:

- for cheap hotels: http://www.eurocheapo.com/paris-hotels-by-cost.html
Choose a central district near a convenient métro or RER line, preferably one that takes you to the airport or the train station for Barcelona (most likely Austerlitz station, so anywhere near line 10 in the Latin Quarter/St-Germain districts would be good: 5th and 6th arrondissements).
- for bed & breakfast (very cheap alternative to hotels):

http://www.homelidays.com/EN-Holidays-Rental/110_Search/SearchListCH.asp?MODEAFFICHAGE=NONE&TYPE_LGT=&NBPERSONNES=1&ADR_PAYS=FR&ADR_LOCALISATION=FR+ILEDEFRANCE+75-PARIS&IDX_LOCALISATION=47&noregion=Not+available&DESTINATION=&JOURDEBUT=&MOISANNEEDEBUT=&NBJOUR=&PK=&x=13&y=9

Hôtel des Mines is conveniently located whether you want to take the RER to CDG airport of the train to Barcelona and it gets good reviews, but although affordable it’s not one of the cheapest: http://www.hoteldesminesparis.com/index-2.html
I don’t know what your notion of “reasonably priced” is but you can also sleep in Paris for under 50 € a night.

Avoid north east districts which are not the safest and far from the sites you want to see. Enjoy your cruise and your day in Paris!

EDIT: if you are taking the evening train and don’t need to spend a night in Paris, you can leave your luggage for the day at one of these places: http://en.parisinfo.com/guide-paris/useful-info/tourism/guide/tourism_luggage

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