Bonjour,
We will be arriving from London at Gare du Nord. The apartment we are renting is on Rue Victor Cousin, it seems the nearest metro is Luxemburg in the Latin Quarter. Can anyone tell me the best way to get to our apartment from Gare du Nord? There will be five of us with luggage.
Thanks for any input
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Have you considered purchasing a Paris street map? They are usually pretty detailed. And many of them are now waterproof and can fold up to be pretty small. I did that in Rome last year and found our place with no problem.
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Your best bet is probably going to be to walk to the end of your EUROSTAR arrival platform at Gare du Nord turn RIGHT and wak=lk straigt ahead until you come to the regular TAXI rank there and take a mini-nav type taxi directly to your apartment. The regular taxi fare would ordinarily be approx 12 €...but you will have to add official surcharges to the metered fare of 2,70 € ea. for the 4th %26amp; 5th passengers, plus 1 € per bag after the (1st).
The public transportation alternative is to turn LEFT at the end of the Eurostar arrival platform and walk straight ahead until you come to the entrances for the RER %26amp; Metro portion of the Gare du Nord station compex on the lower levels and take the RER %26#39;B%26#39; ligne, three stations to LUXEMBOURG (ride the last cars of the train so that you are closest to the station exits at Blvd. Saint Michel / rue Gay Lussac--near Place Edmond Rostand--to avoid unnecessary back-tracking) From here your apartment will be a anywhere from 1 1/2-to-3 blocks away on foot.
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We just did this... but the other way around. We took a taxi from our apartment in the latin quarter to Gard du Nord. It was easy and pretty inexpensive... and worth every penny. Door to door and no stairs.
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Thanks for all the replies. Will print up information and take with me. We%26#39;ll decide when we get there whether to catch a taxi or hop on a metro. Merci
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While you%26#39;re at it, enter the address of your apartment into the PagesJaunes mapping site and print out a detailed local street map of the immediate area (including the LUXEMBOURG RER station location) and carry it with you. You can either show it to a taxi driver to indicate the exact address and location of your apartment....or use is as an aide memoire to find your way from RER station exits to your front door.
If you also use the %26#39;..PLAN de QUARTIER..%26#39; feature of the main RATP web site and enter LUXEMBOURG as your %26#39;.Station..%26#39; you can also generate a detailed local street map with the exact locations of the station Entrances / Exits. If you take some time to %26#39;..tinker..%26#39; with and poke around within these sites, you%26#39;ll also find other practical resourece within them that you may find useful.
PAGES JAUNES--
http://www.pagesjaunes.fr/pj.cgi?lang=en
RATP--
http://www.ratp.fr/
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Hi, we just got back from Paris and did the same thing on Eurostar. My suggestion would be take a taxi (probably 2 for 5 people, they are small) , there will be a taxi line outside the station, Taxis in Paris are failry cheap but a little hard to get, but they will be available at the station. When we arrived the line was quite long, so there were limos offerring transportation for 95 euro, what a ripoff, we took a taxi and it ended up more like 12 euro.
The metro is very good for getting around but takes a day to get use to and typically does not have lifts so you would be in a postion of hauling luggage up and down stairs. We took a taxi from eurostar and to cdg but use the metro the remainder of the time for sight seeing.
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