How to get to Renaissance Paris Hotel Le Parc Trocadero from CDG airport?
I need to go to the Renaissance Paris Hotel Le Parc Trocadero – 55-57 Avenue Raymond Poincare from the CDG airport. I don’t want to take a cab, so I need to take the Metro or the RER. If I buy a ticket, will it work for both the Metro and the RER? I will be arriving early in the day and will want to go other places on the Metro. Should I buy an all-day ticket? Thanks for the help.
The 10.40 euros cost. Is this for just the trip from the airport to the hotel? Or is it an all-day ticket? Should I purchase an all-day ticket? I won’t be going back to the airport that day, just traveling around Paris. Thanks!
Take the RER from CDG. Take any train and go to the Chatelet-Les Halles stop.
Transfer to the RER A going in the direction of Poissy and take it to the Charles de Gaulle-Etoile stop.
Transfer to metro line 2 (Direction : Porte Dauphine (Marechal de Lattre de Tassigny) and take it to the Victor Hugo stop. Your hotel is a 7 minute walk.
This entire trip can be taken with just the ticket you buy at CDG to get on the RER. The cost will be 10.40 euros.
Taking the Metro from CDG to Renaissance Paris Hotel Le Parc Trocadero?
Can someone please help me out with getting from the airport to the Renaissance Paris Hotel Le Parc Trocadero 55-57 Avenue Raymond Poincare? There are four adults, two of us will have roll-ons and the other two will have backpacks and we arrive on a Saturday morning. The hotel is by the Victor Hugo stop. I know we’ll have to use the RER also, but I don’t understand how all of this works. Will someone please explain in lots of details? We can take roll-on on the metro, right? Thanks in advance for the help!
I see you’ve asked a few questions about this, so it seems to be causing you a bit of anxiety. Not to worry, once you get the hang of it, it is quite easy. I don’t think you’ll have much hassle with carry-on sized luggage, especially on a Saturday. If it were a weekday rush hour, that would be another thing! In my opinion the RATP site is not the most user friendly and basically only gives info on the Paris Visite pass on the English version of the site. However, I do highly recommend the pocket size Metro Map.
Now to explain how the system works: The RER is the rail system that connects Paris and the suburbs. The RER lines are lettered and the Metro lines are numbered. There are points within Paris where the RER stops at the same station as the Metro, allowing you to make a transfer. With both the Metro and the RER, each line has two end points (“terminal” in French). The term for a transfer point is “connection”. To know how to get where you are going, first you need find the Metro station where you are starting on the Metro map and determine which direction you need to go to get to your destination station (or transfer station). Find the “terminal” of that line and when you go down into the Metro station, follow the signs that say Direction X to get going in the right direction. As you get into each Metro station there are signs on the wall of the station that tell you which stop you are at and also in the car there is a map of that line up on the wall so you can keep track of how many stops before yours. Once you get to your station and get off look for the sign “Sortie” for the exit. Sometimes there is more than one exit and it will say the name of the street you will exit onto if you take that exit. If you are making a transfer, look for the number of the line you need to take and again look for the direction you need to go from that station to reach your destination. When within Paris it is rare that you would need to make more than 2 transfers to get where you are going.
If I were in your shoes, and depending on how many days you are going to be in Paris, you may want to consider getting the Paris Visite card. It gives you access to the RER, Metro, and bus system (which is good if you are out really late). If you do decide to get it, you may as well get it right away when you arrive at the RER station at the airport. Charles de Gaulle airport is in zone 5 and if you want to go to Versailles, it is in zone 4, so you may as well splurge on the pass for zones 1-6 if you go this route. I messed around on the RATP site and figured out a route that would be good for you. http://www33.ratp.info/Pivi/piviweb.php?exec=piviweb&cmd=FeuilleDeRoute&Profil=RATP_UK
It involves only one transfer and at a station that is not quite so large as Gare du Nord. You will take the RER from the airport (also don’t worry about going the wrong direction as the airport is the end point for that line) until you get to the station Denfert-Rochereau. Get off there and switch to the Metro line 6, direction Charles de Gaulle Etoile. From there it will be the tenth stop, Trocadero. Once you get off and exit, go north on Avenue Raymond Poincaré. Your hotel will be on the left side of the street and it is less than half a mile walk. It is just slightly further to walk than if you got off at the Victor Hugo Metro station, but that is on a different line and involves more transfers at a bigger station. I looked your hotel up on google maps to be sure the walk wasn’t too bad and it seems to be in a very nice area. http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=48.865971,2.285779&spn=0.007086,0.016136&t=h&z=16&key=ABQIAAAAjSrQepBjwfM1ZZOO7bAnEhSbM9x37gW4fQxrn03cz7M35nrP7RT7MQRF-MjBj7KP1Hrl4hRWVdH-RQ&client=gme-nyt&mapclient=jsapi&oi=map_misc&ct=api_logo
Once you get to your hotel, don’t hesitate to ask them for any help or advice. I hope you have a great trip.
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We will be staying at the Renaissance Paris Hotel Le Parc Trocadero 55-57 Avenue Raymond Poincare. Does anyone have any recommendations for where we should eat? We don’t want anything fancy, we want something like sandwiches, salads, etc. where jeans would be acceptable dress. Thanks very much for the advice.
Thank you very much. Do they also wear shorts in Paris? THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you recall the news reports of Princess Diana’s last day which was spent in Paris, she wore jeans to the hotel restaurant and jeans should be no problem. Most French ppl do not wear shorts except when camping or canoeing and churchs won’t let you in if you wear them. You will look out of place. Try to avoid restaurants near major tourist attractions– the quality of food tends to be poor bc they figure that tourists will come no matter what. There is a chain of Belgian owned hamburger places called Quick which you might like.
This will be my first time in Europe. I am spending 6 days, with my mother, in Paris. I am an 18 year old girl, from the U.S.
One of my interests is unique architecture. Where can i find beautiful building, in Paris? I really want to see ferdinand cheval’s palace, but it’s too far.
Arc de triomphe
louvre hotel
Eiffel tower
jardin du luxembourg
hotel de crillon
le potager du marais
6th and 5th district stores, galeries lafayette
notre dame de paris
those are the places I plan on visiting. Also, i’m a vegetarian, any good restaurants?
im not into seeing historical sites.
Just been to Paris for a few days, and i would recommend taking a cruise down the Seine, it’s about 13 euros, you will get to see some of the sights on that! La Grande Arche in La Defense is pretty unique, also La Samaritine is a good example of art nouveau (its a very large department store). Palais De Challiot is just beautiful, its across the street from Eiffel Tower and was built around the same time i think. Please don’t write off the historical sites: you don’t have to be interested in the history to appreciate the beauty and grandeur of these places! Enjoy x
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