Destination - City of love and romance - Paris

Here is just the highlights and photos.pls refer to :
http://summerandsomething.blogspot.com/2013/04/detailed-itinerary-paris-from-rome.html and http://summerandsomething.blogspot.com/2013/04/detailed-budget-15-days-europe-paris.html
for itinerary and budget.

The city of love and romance ~ Paris.

ok, there is one place that you cannot miss if you going Paris which is Effiel Tower!
If you plan to go up to Effiel Tower, please PLEASE buy your ticket online :http://www.tour-eiffel.fr/ . Book your time and be there earlier. If not you will have to queue for few hours. We went there to see sunset, so after sunset , we went for the Seine River cruise. Remember to take some nice photos of Effiel Tower at night. You can also have a romantic picnic at night at the fields near Effiel Tower.

Cathedral Notre Dame

Arc de Triomphe

Louvre Museum

We get the 2 days Paris Museum Pass for Louvre Museum,Musee d'Orsay,Cathedral Notre Dame ,Arc de Triomphe @ 35 euro last time. But I just checked the website: http://en.parismuseumpass.com/rub-the-pass-price-36.htm.  Now it costs 39 euro.You have to calculate the costs vs benefits before you buy this pass, ie plan how many museum you plan to visit. With this museum pass, you can go to the museum using the fast lane.

We went to the Paris Disneyland. The Paris Disneyland is much smaller compared to the HK. So if you have been the HK Disney or any other Disneyland, you can skip this.

One of the French Restaurant we went twice during our 6 days Paris trip is this Bouillion Chartier Restaurant:

The food taste great and the price is reasonable, ard 20 euro/pax with wine.

For shopping, we went to  Champs-Elysées for the branded bags! If you want to buy Longchamp, go to the upper floor in Champs-Elysées mall, you will get more variety there and you can avoid the long queue as compared in the Ground floor.



Detailed Itinerary - Paris (from Rome)

Date/ Time		Details
Sun 17/4 Paris	1100 1215 1515-1715 1900	Take bus Reach airport (40min) Flight 428: Rome Ciampino to Paris Orly (Terminal Sud): Check in opens: 13:15-14.35 The RER B (suburban train) connects to Orly airport via the Orlyval airport train. Follow the signs from Orly Ouest or Orly Sud to "Orlyval", then from the Antony train station, connect to the RER B, direction Paris. If need be, you can then connect to the Paris metro at stations Denfert Rochereau, Saint-Michel, Chatelet-les-Halles, or Gare du Nord. Departs: every 7-10 minutes, from 6:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. Price: 9.60 Euros (note that you must buy a special ticket from an RATP ticketer at the airport). The RER C (suburban train) connects to Orly Airport via shuttles that leave from the Porte de Rungis station. From the airport, take a shuttle to Porte de Rungis, then the RER C to Paris. Departs: Shuttles for Porte de Rungis leave every 15 minutes, 5:45 a.m.- 11:15 p.m., from gate G- quai 1 at Orly Sud and from the arrival level at Orly Ouest. Price: 5.65 Euros each way (approx. $7.50) Rome Ciampino to Paris Orly Montmartre Village, a mere 5 minute walk from Sacre Coeur, and just 2 minutes from metro station Pigalle/Abbesse. the adress is 76, rue des martyres and it a dead end witch is Rue André Gill. Reach hotel
Mon 18/4 Paris		Eiffel Tower -7th arrondissement (Metro: Bir Hakeim or Trocadero (Line 6), Ecole Militaire (Line 8), RER: Champs de Mars-Tour Eiffel (Line C) ) Seine River Cruise
Tue 19/4 Paris		Louvre Museum-1st arrondissement (Palais Royal-Musée du Louvre (Line 1)) Musee d'Orsay- 7th arrondissement (Metro: Solferino (Line 12) RER: Musee d'Orsay (Line C)) Designer Shopping in the Rue Saint-Honoré district
Wed 20/4 Paris		Cathedral Notre Dame - Notre Dame Cathedral-4th arrondissement (Metro: Cité or Saint-Michel (Line 4)RER: Saint-Michel (Line C) Arc de Triomphe-8th arrondissement (Metro: Charles de Gaulle Etoile (Line 1, 2 or 6)RER: Charles de Gaulle Etoile (Line A))
Thu 21/4 Paris		Disneyland
Fri 22/4 Paris		Free &easy shopping Montmartre Depart from Paris to Barcelona