How do you get to the Arc De Triomphe from Charles de Gaulle Airport?
Q: How do you get to the Arc De Triomphe from Charles de Gaulle Airport?If you have luggage, drop it at your hotel first. You can use either the RER B or Roissybus (roughly the same fare) to get into Paris. The bus will leave you next to the Opéra Garnier (northwest), while the train will leave you at the station of your choice. You may also book a Uber or a taxi, but that’s a much more expensive option.Then, I’d recommend either a bus (full map here) or metro line 2 or 6 (depending on where you stay; full metro map here), which is elevated on most of its path: that way you’ll be able to enjoy the urban landscape. Although Parisian transportation may not be easy to understand at first (I’ve seen more than one tourist struggle with it, but if you ask politely, we’ll be happy to help you), it is one of the most comprehensive and efficient transportation systems in the world, and again, of course, much less expensive than taxis or Uber. You’ll also taste bits of everyday Parisian life.
How can I get to Trianon Palace Versaille in France from Charles du Gualle Airport?
1. Take the Reseau Express Regional train RER B towards Massy Palaiseau Ratp / Remy les Chevreuse to Paris Chatelet/Les Halles (travel time 36 min.) 2. Take the RER A towards Cergy le Haut / St-Germain-en-Laye to La Defense (Grande Arche) (travel time 10 min.) 3. Take the SNCF regional train to Versailles Rive Droite (19 mins.) 4. Take bus service 17 towards Guittel Lecoq to Berthier (3 mins.) To check the connection based on your arrival time chose category "Station" and enter "Aeroport Charles de Gaulle 1 - RER" as departure and chose "Address" and enter "1 Boulevard de la Reine VERSAILLES" as destination. http://www.ratp.info/touristes/index.php... ..
How to get to Champs Elysees from disneyland paris station?
From Disneyland, take the RER (suburban train) line A at Marne La Vallee-Chessy and go all the way to Charles de Gaulle-Etoile. As you exit the station you should see Arc de Triomphe and Champs Elysees. To return, just go to RER stations that serves line A and look for RER in the direction of Marne La Vallee-Chessy. You will need a zone 5 ticket, which is 6.45euro one way. However, if you're travelling into Paris from Disneyland on a day trip, you should take a 1-day Mobilis ticket which is 12.90euro, and it'll allow you unlimited travel for the day on RER/metro/bus/tram within zones 1-5. That means you can get into Paris to Champs Elysees, and then take the metro elsewhere etc before going back again to Disneyland later in the day. Some other stops that are worth taking (all directions based on coming from Disneyland): St Michel-Notre Dame : take RER line A to Chatelet-Les Halles, then change to RER line B direction of Robinson or St Remy, get off at St Michel-Notre Dame - you'll get to visit Notre Dame Cathedral and the Latin Quarter at this stop. Bir Hakeim or Trocadero : take RER line A to Charles de Gaulle-Etoile, change to metro line 6 and get off at either Bir Hakeim or Trocadero to visit the Eiffel Tower. Please note that Trocadero station is currently closed for works until 13 March 2009. Palais Royal-Musee du Louvre : take RER line A to Chatelet-Les Halles, change to metro line 1 at Chatelet in the direction of La Defense, get off at Palais Royal-Musee du Louvre. Louvre, as a museum goes, is one of its kind with amazing collection of work of arts and antiquities.
How far is the Eiffel Tower from Charles de Gaulle airport?
The absolute earliest you will be able to get into Paris is around 10pm and it might be tough to get tickets to go to the top. As Nars said, Sacre Coeur in Montmartre is a great place to visit at night. The Basilica may be closed by the time you get there, but the view of the city at night is well worth the trip to the top. BTW - the metro doesn't go to CdG. You can take the RER B line and then hop onto the metro.....
How does the distance of TGV stations from the cities they ostensibly serve affect the popularity of the railway?
I will only answer from my personal situation in regards of railway. My overall opinion about TGV is that it is very efficient, very fast (well, d’uh!) and incomfortable if you are in second class. Also, insanely expensive, but compared to airways it is faster, specially considering the road traffic around and in the main cities. Still remains expensive anyway.The impact of TGV railways and station is the following : I just can’t go to Paris by train anymore without changing somewhere. I used to walk or drive to the local station, hop in a train and -voilà! Next stop Big City of Lights Paris.Nowadays, either I take my usual secondary train (Inter-cité) to the next city (20 mn but still…) and there wait for the Paris train to show (4 or 5 per day). Or, and this is what is always and solely proposed by the SNCF website and any on-line booking site, I have to take the Inter-cité in the other direction for 45 mn and there wait an average of 1 hour to get to seat down in my goddamned booked small TGV seat where I can’t have my luggage with me but that I paid a fortune for. Eventually I’ll be in Paris another hour later or so.This just because they need to make a minimum of profit with their overexpensive trains. I remember the very first TGVs back in 1990’s, and the experience was completely different. You’d pay a little more (as in Booking was mandatory, which it was not in other trains) but basically had the same comfort than in regular trains PLUS the higher speed.Now you pay two to three times more and have less space than in an EasyJet airplane just because some insane politicians decided it would be good for their popularity to artificially maintain a production by over-paying the goods with tax money, and then having us over-pay for the use of it. As we don’t like to pay twice for the same things, they eventually decided that we would be conned into using TGV whatever we prefer.tl;dr : Before, I hopped in a regular train, was in Paris in two hours. Plenty of space for my legs, luggage with me. Now, I hop in a regular train to the next TGV station, 45min, wait 1h for the TGV, 1h later or so I’m in Paris. No luggage with me, no place for my legs.
Important metro stations in Paris?
im off to Paris on Tuesday for the day. getting the Eurostar to the Gare du Nord early in the morning. i'll be using the metro (underground train service) to get around the city. i know prices etc, all i need to know is the metro stations that are closest to Places of Interest (eiffel tower, la defense, champs d'elysee, etc.). im not bothered about which POI's and their closest metro stations you give me, but obviously the answer with the most metro stations and POI's will get best answer and 5*. thanks!
What are the French taught about WWII's "Battle for France"?
Battle for France? That's unclear to me.If you mean the post-Normandy landings German army rollback of 1944, then pretty much what everyone in the Western world knows.If you mean the Battle of France in may-june 1940 (most likely), then similarly to you we learn the mixed bag of incompetence, pettiness, cowardice and blindness among politicians that led to the collapse of an army of a million men. In their defence they had all experienced 1914, and the idea of it starting again terrified them to the core.However, what we REMEMBER beyond school boils down to 3 items : the useless Ligne Maginot, Charles de Gaulle's call from London, and Marshall Pétain's paternalistic-albeit-authoritarian takeover.Ask a 100 French people in the street, not one will know the name of the last president of the 3rd Republic (Albert Lebrun), or anything else about 1940 either. If they're over 50, they'll most likely say they never even heard about the ligne Maginot until the 80s. Only history buffs and Alsacians were really aware of it before then.EDIT : You remind me correctly of Mers-el-Kébir in July 1940, where the RAF pre-emptively bombed 1,200 French navy soldiers posted in French Algeria lest they rally the German fleet. That event has stayed in collective memory as proof of the go-it-alone attitude and general untrustworthiness of Britain in times of war. For the French, the scuttling of the fleet at Toulon when the German did attempt to capture la Marine in 1942 was definitive testimony to the integrity of the French high command.If you have the chance to talk with a soldier from 1940 (an increasingly rare thing), don't mention Mers-el-Kébir or you're sure to make him seethe. Nowadays it's seldom mentioned in the media.It's often reported that Charles de Gaulle never forgave Churchill for this decision, although he doesn't write so himself in his memoires.