We will be in paris for 7 days and wondering if we will need a metro pass or can we walk everywhere. We will be almost across the street from the sevres-lecourbe metro station. From our living room we could see Les Invalides? Help us make a decision, we are 4 in the family (with 2 teens). We will probably taxi from the airport.
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You need a metro pass IMHO. To walk from one side of paris to the other would take 4 or 5 hours. Alternately you could just buy a carnet of 10 tickets and use them as needed. I am sure with the location that you will not need to take the metro everywhere but it will come in handy often. Dont forget the excellent bus network as well. Taking a bus allows you to see the city while you are moving about.
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It depends if you like to walk in cities. As you are with teenagers (and if they are the sport kind of teens), the metro pass will may be not be necessary, just buy metro tickets (you may buy the %26quot;carnet%26quot; : 10 tickets).
Last time we were in Paris with our teens (it was for easter this year) we paid for passes and it was really not worth paying this as we walked a lot and took the metro only twice a day.
Paris is a city that you will enjoy by foot.
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Sèvres-Lecourbe is not really in the heart of things and, apart from the Eiffel Tower, the Invalides and the Quai Branly museum, you%26#39;ll have to take the métro. Paris might be %26quot;compact%26quot;, but to go to Montmartre from the 15th is 12 km, to go to Le Marais from the 15th is 5 or 7 km. Look at a map with a scale, and you%26#39;ll see that a carte orange is a small price to pay to avoid big blisters!
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You can pretty much guestimate the relative distance between places, sights and attraction in Paris from your Paris streetmap (you%26#39;ve already got one right?...if not, go out and get one...it%26#39;s not as if you%26#39;re not gonna%26#39; need it once you arrive).You know how much walking you can do and what comfortable distance are for you...and you can figure it out from this.
No one %26quot;..needs..%26quot; a transportation pass. You can always purchase individual tickets (1,45 €)...or CARNETs (booklets of 10 reduced-price tickets--11 €)...as necessary. But many times one of the various public transportation pass products represents the best value and the greatest %26#39;..hop-on / hop-off..%26#39; public transportation convenience. Which transportation pass product MIGHT %26#39;..work..%26#39; best for you and your family would depend on more specific detail of your intended Paris itinerary..especialyy day-of-the-week arrival and departure...prefered airport transfer method and any day-trip out of Paris you may be planning. DETAILS MATTER....otherwise you can do the research on transportation ticket and pass options and work out the math for yourself
RATP Ticket %26amp; Pass Prices--
ratp.info/informer/titres_de_transport.php
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I would buy either the tickets ( 10) or depending on the day you arrive buy the pass! IMO it is well worth it!
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Of course you will need to take the Métro to go to Montmartre ! But Largo, Paris is not so big as in your dreams : from Sèvres-Lecourbe to Anvers, it is a 6.5 km drive, not 12 km! And once in Montmartre, you may walk to an other place to visit (for example the Grands Boulevards/ Opéra district ot the canal Saint Martin), and then take the Métro again to come back to your place (that%26#39;s why I said 2 tickets a day).
Sèvres Lecourbe is also not far from Saint Germain des Prés.
I don%26#39;t like to take so much the underground in cities, as you get a weird representation of the city : only monuments and high spots, nothing in between, no real understanding of the geography and neighborhoods feelings.
I walked all along Broadway in New York City and part of the fun was to discover how different neighborhoods succeed. Same for Paris.
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There is many varying opinions. From what I gather, I think we will opt for a carnet of 10 tickets. Seeing as we probably will be walking to get to sights (unless of course it%26#39;s montmartre) and taking metro to get home. We will be arriving on a Thursday and leaving on a wednesday a week later. We will be taking a taxi from the airport at around 11:00 a.m. Does the carte orange start on a specific day of the week? , We also plan on going to versailles.
Can someone also help me by advising us on what to do when we arrive at cdg a week later at 11:00 a.m. inorder to take an early international flight the next day. We probably don%26#39;t want to go back to paris, because we will have seen it for a week. What is convenient once we are at cdg?
I know this is combining two issues but I%26#39;m stuck on the 2nd one, with any advice.
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Frankly, meesa, can you imagine yourself and your family being stuck at depressing CDG for a whole day and night, when Paris is tantalizingly so nearby? I see two solutions:
1. You take an airport hotel, but as soon as your bags are there you hop on the RER to spend a day and an evening in Paris, back with a latish RER (23h00 / midnight, preferably choosing a direct one that doesn%26#39;t stop in all the banlieue nord stations)
2. You go back to Paris and check into a cheap hotel there to take advantage of your last night there without having to look at your watch.
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you%26#39;re right Adele-blanc-sec. However I think I prefer your 1st option, because the night before we leave I like to sleep early and not stress about getting to the airport on time. I will book an airport hotel. I was hoping to do something a little different than go back to Paris since I%26#39;ve spent 7 nights there already. Something that is easy to commute to from cdg, but is a little more out of town.
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