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Paris Light City
By CruiseDirector | November 25, 2009
Paris is a much loved European destination for many Americans. ParisApartamento barato Paris being the main destination in France, is the gateway for most travellers coming by airplane. As a gateway city, Paris ends up with tons of visitors who spend time within that city unaccompanied. Not only is it a great tourist destination, it serves the purpose of being one of the major cities in France and Europe for business. Many French companies have major offices in Paris. It is this mix of business and free time that help make Paris a multi-ethnic city.
Paris can be reached without difficulty from numerous cities around the USA. Most of the US carriers who serve Europe as well as Air France offer several non-stop flights to the Paris area airports. From Houston, you have a choice of two flights, four if you count the code shared flights between Air France and Continental. (Continental and Air France each operate a single flight with flight numbers from both airlines.) LAX on the west coast as well as numerous east coast cities serve as US gateway cities. If you are in London, it is promising to hop on the “Chunnel” and take a high velocity train between the two cities.
My Experiences
To my shock, on my last visit I found the folks in Paris far friendlier than I bear in mind them from my visit 16 years ago. English seems to be spoken more now than when I was there last. It could have been the holiday time bringing joy around the world, or just a revolutionize in way of thinking towards those pesky American tourists who pour money into their economy.
During our stay, I was incredibly happy to be treated so well by the desk agents in our hotel, and the wait staff at the restaurants we decided to visit. Our hotel was a petite boutique hotel selected by my wife’s co-worker who was with her on the trip to Istanbul. She and her now spouse visit Paris frequently, in fact she even has kin there, so she chose the hotel for its old-fashioned setting and the nearby park. Unneeded to stay the staff treated us very well, and spoke perfect English. The desk agent even made sure that when we headed back to the airport that she came out and spoke in French Apartamentos Paristo the driver of our taxi to make sure he knew exactly where we were going.
We stayed and dined primarily in the Latin quarter. In this area, we found several small cafes that served up great French food. One sunset we went down a street full of relatives run restaurants where menus were displayed in the windows. As we looked at menus we were approached by the servers and owners all contribution to serve us a great food, either from the menu or they will make up a meal of our choosing. My wife was expecting so we did not drink any of the French wine while there. We did like some great food from the menu. (Unhappily I ended up coming down with the flu by the end of the weekend, which made for a long flight home.)
During one of our full days spent in the city was filled up with a city tour. We found one of the open top, double decker buses used by tour companies. I believe we ended up on the red bus as it seems like there were yellow busses, from another tour company doing the same tour. The entire circuit takes about two hours if you do not hop off and back on. We decided that hopping off at a couple of the sites was worth it. In fact, we chose our stops previous to the tour got going. That permitted us to plan out our day. (Weather was very cold and sad so on foot was not too much fun.)
We stopped at the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower, and in close proximity to a trade centre where toilet water shops were all over. If you have allergies those shops can be tough on your body. The tour guide on the Red bus was great. She explained the significance of what we saw as we drove all-around the city. We cruised down several main streets. We cruised along the side of the watercourse which has many attractive sites along its banks. The tour guide pointed out the numerous architectural styles we encountered on our tour OH-Holidays. All around the Red Bus was a great way to spend a day.
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