Paris! French capital, city of love, namesake of Paris Hilton, cradle of the baguette, Revolution and condoms, right?
Well partly! ;)
To find out what is happening and what has happened in Paris for real and to break down stereotypes and prejudices, 2 friends and myself will endeavour in a massive 1200km road trip to provide our readers with previously undisclosed insider information!
As we are meeting up and spending our weekend with ca. 10 french friends we'll probably spent some time partying as well.
But don't be dishearted we'll return with juicy advice on where to find the party in Paris!
How to get there:
Regarding our choice to get to Paris all the way by car, I have to say that we jointly wanted to go for the cheapest available option, well aware that this road trip will take us around 13 hours.
Since I only started looking out for cheap flights around a month before this trip should take place and the fact that we've been restricted to a certain date, we couldn't find a cheaper return ticket than 170 Euros. but if you start looking a bit earlier and are free to choose a date I estimate you"ll find a return ticket for around 100 Euro (+-).
One option to search for cheap flights: www.skyscanner.net
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Accomodation:
One piece of information in advance, finding budget accomodation in Paris is not easy!
You'll find plenty of places regarding themselves as being budget options, but many of them are still very pricy.
After a long search we eventually decided to settle for the BVJ Louvre.
It offers dormitory accomodation for 29 Euros pp and if you're a group of at least 10 ppl you'll get a discount and end up paying 25 Euros pp.
Additionally the Hostel is located in the heart of Paris, the Louvre and the Champs Elysee are literally just around the corner, as depicted in the following map:
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So that's all there is to say for now.
An exclusive review will go online in the course of next week.
In this spirit, salut et a bientot!
Patrik
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I was thinking if you need some time to relax after a night of partying you could go to the area around the Hôtel de Ville, there are some nice shops but it's not as crowded as the Champs Elysées, you'll also find some great places to eat - rather cheap, at least for Paris standards - there is for example this whole street full of sushi shops, although you'd probably prefer a decent meal... ;)
ReplyDeleteSome other information on the side: Starting from December that's where they open the famous ice skating rink and well, it's also known as the gay area of Paris, which is interesting to know when you go there...
For directions: the brown and yellow subway lines have stops there.
Enjoy your weekend and have fun!