HOTELS Haussmann’s Paris

Grand Hôtel Lévêque Pont Neuf

29 Rue Cler, 75007 Paris, France
Place de la Concorde

View of the Champs-Elysées

View of the Arc de Triomphe

La Conciergerie: A Fairytale Palace
The Louvre
Along the way I stopped at La Conciergerie,
a former royal palace on an island in the Palais Royal
middle of the River Seine. With its grand
Musée d’Orsay
façade and imposing turrets it looks like
something from a fairytale. Ile-de-la-Cité

The palace was used as a VIP prison in the View of Les Invalidesruise
18th and 19th centuries and is most famous
for holding Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Tour Montparnasse
III.
http://www.newparistours.com/
La Saint-Chapelle: The most beautiful
PARIS ITINERARY
stained glass window in the world (fact!)

Notre Dame:

Musee Galliera (Fashion Museum) ONE-DAY

ALTERNATIVE ONE…..Via Sightseeing Bus
Jardin des Tuileries
– Take a sightseeing bus (Les Cars Rouge,
Montmartre, Open Tours, Foxity Tours, etc) that will
take you to the most important sights of
Moulin Rouge
Paris in TWO hours.
Seine River CNotre Dame de Paris Bus Stops: Eiffel Tower…..Champs de Mars
…Louvre Museum…Notre Dame
View of the Eiffel Tower
Cathedral…Musee d’Orsay…Opera…Arc du
Académie Française Triomphe/Champs Elysee…Grand
Palais….Trocadero (for a good view of the
Tuileries Gardens
Eiffel Tower.
Assemblée National Hop On and Off from any of the
stops. After the bus trip, go to Sacre-Coeur
View of the Grand & Petit Palais
(Metro: Abbesses/Anvers), climb up the
Basilica, or take the funicular, and enjoy
the view of Paris from there. Walk to
nearby Place du Tertre, a lively square of
painters, restaurants/cafes and have your
portrait sketched or drawn in caricature.
In the evening, take the boat trip along the
river Seine and enjoy the view of the city of
lights at night. Take note, it should be in
the dark so you can appreciate the Eiffel
Tower in all its lit up glory!
(Vedette du Pont-Neuf….ferry cruise on the
river Seine..1 hour…….Metro: Pont-Neuf
http://www.vedettesdupontneuf.com/acce
s.htm)
ALTERNATIVE TWO……Do-it-yourself
Purchase a 1-day Mobilis card
– for Zone 1-2 ………..travel just at the
center of Paris.
– for Zone 1 – 3……….includes La Defense
and Stade de France (French Stadium)
– for Zone 1 – 4……….includes Versailles and
Orly Airport
– for Zone 1 – 5……….includes CDG airport
and Disneyland
This will allow you unlimited travel
according to the zones you have chosen.
Hop in hop out and explore Paris in your
own pace.
Visit the sites mentioned in ALTERNATIVE
ONE.
Eiffel Tower………….Metro stop: Trocadero
Louvre Museum……Metro” Palais-
Royal/Musee du Louvre
Notre Dame Cathedral..Metro: St
Michel/Notre Dame
Musee d’Orsay…….Metro Musee d’Orsay
Opera………………….Metro Opera…..Go to
Galeries Lafayette for window-shopping,
marvel at the Glass Dome and go to the
rooftop for a view of Paris
Arc du Triomphe/Champs Elysee…Metro
Charles de Gaulle-Etoile
Grand Palais……….Metro Champs Elysees-
Clemenceau
Trocadero ………….Metro Trocadero
Plus:
Basilique du Sacre-Coeur…Metro
Anvers/Abbesses
TWO-DAY ITINERARY
Purchase a 1-day Mobilis card for each day
Day 1
Take the Metro to Trocadero , the spot
where you can enjoy the best view of the
Eiffel Tower.
Take the Metro to Palais-Royal/Musee du
Louvre for a visit to the Louvre Museum
grounds. If you want to get inside, then put
this first in your itinerary and be on the
queue for the 9am opening. Since the
museum is so big and one day is not enough
to see it all, keep browsing but give priority
to the most famous works of art – Venus de
Milo, the Nike of Samothrake, the Dying
Slave by Michelangelo and Leonardo da
Vinci’s Mona Lisa.
Metro to St Michel/Notre Dame for a visit
to the 850-year old Notre Dame Cathedral..
If you are into courtyard gardens, go inside
the Hotel-Dieu (the oldest hospital of Paris)
which is the building at your left if you are
facing the Notre Dame Cathedral. After the
garden tour, cross the Petit Pont
(bridge) to go to Fontaine Saint Michel but
on your way, make a stopover at rue de la
Boucherie for a photo op of Shakespeare
and Company bookstore. When you
reach the monumental Fontaine Saint
Michel -(if you are facing it), go find the rue
de la Hutchette to your left. It is a very lively
district and forms part of the Latin Quarter.
Just let yourself get lost in the streets and
little alleys. Have dinner there and try to
catch the evening ferry cruise – Vedette du
Pont Neuf (Metro Pont Neuf) – which starts
at 9pm.. An unforgettable experience seeing
the city of lights at night.
Day 2
If you wish to climb the Eiffel Tower, go
early to be at the head of the queue
Highly recommended is a visit to the Opera
Garnier, an architectural masterpiece!
visiting hours: from 10am to 5pm, everyday,
but try to get there in the morning as when
there are matinee performances, visiting
hours are limited till 1pm. ..
Metro Opera..
After the Opera visit, look for the most
famous shopping centre – Galeries
Lafayette – for window shopping and
photographing of its glass dome. You can
also go up the rooftop for a good view of
Paris.
**Metro Charles de Gaulle-Etoile….Arc du
Triomphe and Tomb of the Unknown
Soldier (you can get there via the
underpass).
Proceed to the Avenue des Champs Elysées,
the most beautiful avenue in the world, for
that long ambling walk towards Place
Concorde.
(Note: If you don’t want to walk the 2 km
distance, take the metro and exit at Metro:
Concorde.
Place de la Concorde…..used to be a royal
square but became the site of the guillotine
where the king and queen were executed.
Here you can see the old Egyptian obelisk,
two beautiful fountains, the fine mansion
houses, Assemblee Nationale
Next, go to Place Vendome, the most
expensive square in Paris (Ritz hotel, jewelry
shops, Chanel, Chaumet, Boucheron.)
**Metro Champs Elysées-Clemenceau…take
Avenue Winston Churchhill and walk
between the Petit Palais to your left and
Grand Palais to your right. Entrance to the
museum of Petit Palais if free so you can get
in just to look at the grandiose interior and
the
works of arts. Continue your walk along Ave
Churchill until you reach Pont Alexandre III,
the most beautiful bridge of Paris…go
towards Invalides, the hotel of invalid
soldiers during the reign of Louis IV.
***Metro Anvers.. to go to the Basilique du
Sacre-Coeur, take the funicular (fare is
covered by your Mobilis card.)… from Sacre-
Coeur, enjoy the view of Paris. Go to Place
du Tertre, a lively square filled with
restaurants and artists selling their works as
well
as services to draw your profile or
caricature. This is the best place to spend
your last evening.
For an extra Day:
– Visit the Chateau de Versailles and its
gardens…Here, you buy Mobilis Zone 1-5….
Other Places to visit when you are
spending more than THREE DAYS
*Musee d’Orsay
*La Defense, the financial district of Paris
The most beautiful bridges
– Pont Alexandre III…..Metro Invalides
– Pont de Bir Hakeim…Metro Bir Hakeim
– Pont Neuf (the oldest bridge)….Metro
Pont Neuf
– Pont des Arts…Metro Louvre-Rivoli
The most beautiful churches:
– St Eustache……Metro Chatelet-Les Halles
– St Gervais et St Protais….Metro Pont
Marie
– Sainte Chapelle…..Metro Cité
The most beautiful squares
– Place des Vosgues…..Metro St Paul
– Place du Tertre…….Metro Anvers
The most beautiful gardens
– Jardin du Tuileries….Metro Tuileries
– Jardin du Luxembourg …RER Luxembourg
– Jardin du Palais Royal…Metro Palais
Royal-Musee du Louvre
– Promenade Plantée ..start from .Metro
Bastille to Metro Dausmenil
An elevated garden above the Viaduct des
Arts..;giving a good view of Paris residential
buildings
The most beautiful Metro Entrances:
– Metro Palais Royal/Musee du Louvre
(Comedie Francaise exit)
– Metro Abbesses
– Metro Anvers
For the Architecture-buff
– cite de l’Architecture et du
Patrimoine….Metro Trocadero
Displays of architectural moulds: from
medieval and Renaissance wall paintings
and an architectural panorama from 1850
to the present day.
– Pompidou Centre…;Metro George
Pompidou
– Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-
Arts, 14 rue Bonaparte …Metro St German
de Pres
– Opera Garnier
Free Museums that are worth visiting:
– Musee Carnavalet-History of Paris…23 rue
Savigny..;Metro St Paul
– Petit Palais…Metro Champs Elysées-
Clemenceau
Must-try:
– the cakes of Fauchon…..Place
Madeleine…Metro Madeleine
– the patisseries of Pierre Hermé….4 Rue At Terminal 1: Ride the airport shuttle to
Cambon….Metro Concorde Terminal 3, it’s free. Look for the SNCF
– a visit to the Art Nouveau Maxim’s ticket counter and buy a train ticket to Paris
Centre (Ile de France), it’s worth €10. Don’t
Museum and Restaurant…12 rooms
forget to ask for a Paris metro map at the
luxuriously decorated with Belle Epoque
counter. It will be your guide throughout
furniture
your Paris trip. But to plan in advance, print
Opens everyday except Mon/Tues….
metro map here.
Guided visit 2pm – 3:15pm- 4:30pm
– watch a show at the Moulin
Rouge…metro Blanche
To Porte de Montreuil (station near our
– or the Lido…Metro George V hotel in the Paris centre): From Terminal 3,
-a visit to the Marches aux Puces de St we took line 4 to Gare du Nord; transferred
Ouen or Paris Flea Market…Metro Porte de to M2 to Nation; then M9 to Porte de
Clignancourt Montreuil. Our hotel is a 2-minute walk
Please check for opening times from the station.
The most expensive shopping streets
– Avenue Montaigne ….Metro Franklin d
Roosevelt / Alma-Marceau Hotel name and address: Ibis Hotel; 2
– Place Vendome Avenue du Professeur Andre Lemierre,
Others: Paris, France
– Catacombs of Paris……Métro Denfert-
Rochereau
– Le Musée des Égouts de Paris or the Paris Surely, most of you will have a different
Sewer Museum….Metro Alma-Marceau hotel from ours. Know the nearest station
– Montmartre Cemetery….Metro to your hotel and plan in advance using the
Blanche….find the bust of Rodin, the tombs metro map on the link above.
of Alexandre Dumas, Emile Zola, Degas
– Pere Lachaise cemetery…Metro Pere
PARIS, France
Lachaise…the tombs of Chopin, Jim
Morrison, Oscar Wilde…
– Place de la Bastille……Metro Bastille
paris day 1

Arrival: Terminal 1, Paris Charles de Gaulle DAY 1 as follows: Petit Palais, Alexander
Airport Bridge, Rodin Museum, Eiffel Tower, Arc de
Triomphe
You can go around Paris by metro. Every
ticket costs €1.80. But you can buy a carnet
of 10 tickets for €14. That’s good for three
days in Paris.
Petit Palais
Admission: Entrance to the permanent
collection is free.
Opening hours: 10:00 – 18:00; close on
Mondays
Metro station: Champs-Elysees-Clemenceau
Alexander Bridge
Metro station: Champs-Elysees-Clemenceau
The bridge is just a 5-minute walk from
Petit Palais so there’s no need to use the
metro.
Rodin Museum
Admission: €4, if gardens only €1; Free
entrance on the first Sunday of the month
Opening hours: 10:00 – 17:45; close on
Mondays
Metro Station: Varenne
Eiffel Tower
Admission: (through elevator) 1st and 2nd
levels €8.20, top-most €13.40; (through
stairs) 1st and 2nd levels only €4.50
Opening hours: Opens daily Jun – Aug, 9:00
– 00:45; Sep – Jun, 9:30 – 23:00; Stairs are
closed by 18:00 in winter
Metro Station: Champ de Mars Tour Eiffel
But hey, Eiffel Tower is beautiful even when
just viewed from the outside, and it’s for
free!
Arc de Triomphe
Admission: €9.5, free if under 18
Opening hours: Apr – Sep, 10:00 – 23:00;
Oct – Mar, 10:00 – 22:30
Metro station: Etoile
Same thing goes for Arc de Triomphe! It’s
beautiful from the outside, especially at
night.
**Paris metro is very easy to learn. You can
master it on your first day in Paris. As long
as you have your Paris metro map, you’ll
find your way through the city.
paris day 2
DAY 2 in Versailles
Versailles

Admission: €18; full passport €25, Marie- Pont Neuf

Antoinette’s Domain €10; Petit Trianon
The bridge is just a short walk from the
€7.50; Free entrance to the park; weekend
Louvre Museum. There’s no need to ride
fountain show €9 only in Apr – Oct. All tours
the metro to get here.
free on first Sunday of Nov.

Opening hours: Nov – Mar 9:00 – 17:30;

Trianon Palaces and Marie-Antoinette’s
Estate 2:00 – 17:30; Apr – Oct, Palace 9:00 –
18:30; Trianon Palaces and Marie-
Antoinette’s Estate 12:00 – 18:30; Garden
8:00 – 20:30; Garden and Park 8:00 – 18:00;
All open daily except Mondays
Metro station: Take RER C to Versailles
Chateau
**Versailles is composed of many other
palaces. It will take you whole day to get to
almost everything.
Notre Dame
Admission: Cathedral free; €8 towers; €4
crypt, €3 treasury
Opening hours: Cathedral (7:45-18:45);
Towers (Apr-Jun and Sept. 10:00-18:30; Jul
and Aug weekdays 10:00-18:30, weekends
10:00-23:00; Oct – Mar 10:00-17:30);
Treasury (weekdays 9:30-18:00, Saturday
9:30-18:30, Sunday 13:30-18:30); Crypt
(Tue-Sun 10:00-18:00).
Metro station: Cite

Pantheon
paris day 3
Admission: €8
DAY 3 as follows: Louvre, Pont Neuf, Notre
Dame, Pantheon, Luxembourg Gardens Opening hours: Apr – Sept 10:00-18:30; Oct
– Mar 10:00-18:00
Louvre
Metro station: Luxembourg
Admission: €10; Free on the first Sunday of
every month

Opening hours: Mon, Thurs and weekends Luxembourg

9:00 – 18:00; Wed and Fri 9:00 – 21:30;
Admission: Free
close on Tuesdays
Metro station: Luxembourg
Metro station: Palais-Royal, Musee du
Louvre AMSTERDAM, Netherlands
Upon arrival, buy a ticket from available
machines, they’re self-service. Get a 48-hour DAY 5 as follows: Rijkmuseum, Leidseplein,
transport ticket for a two-day stay in Anne Frank House, Dam Square, Oude Kerk,
Amsterdam, worth €12. Take the train to Sightseeing Cruise
Amsterdam Central Station; then take tram
Rijkmuseum
no. 2 to West Side Inn. Always check in and
Admission: €13 for adults; free 18 years old
out your OV chipcard (ticket) when getting
and under
in and out of the train or tram.
Opening hours: 9:00 – 18:00; close Jan 1
**The hotel was the cheapest one we found
Anne Frank House
online. It has the ideal location because it is
Admission: €8.5 adults; €4 children 10 to
just a few minutes walk to the nearest
17; free for children 9 and under
station for tram no. 2, which takes you to all
Opening hours: Mid-Mar to June; First 2
the best attractions in Amsterdam.
weeks Sep (9:00-21:00, close on Sunday);
Jul-Aug 9:00-22:00; mid-Sept to mid-Mar
DAY 4 as follows: Zaanse Schans, Volendam,
9:00am-19:00
Marken, Vondelpark
Tram: nos. 13, 14, or 17 to Westermarkt
Zaanse Schans Sightseeing Cruise
Bus station: Go to Amsterdam Central There are many types of cruises near the
station and take bus 391 to Zaanse Schans; Amsterdam Central Station; €16 per person
fare is €10 roundtrip. for one hour cruise.
Volendam All attractions for day 5 can be reached by
Bus station: From Amsterdam Central tram no. 2, except Anne Frank House.
station, take bus 316 to Volendam, fare Leidseplein, Dam Square and Oude Kerk are
is €10 valid all day free.
Marken
Bus station: From Volendam, you can take
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bus 316 back to Broek in Waterland then
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take bus 315 to Marken; same ticket can be
used. http://iamaileen.com/free-things-to-do-in-
Vondelpark paris-france/
Tram station: From Amsterdam Central
station, take tram 2 and stop at Leidseplein BELGIUM
All attractions for day 4 are free. Zaanse
Schans, Volendam and Marken are old
neighborhoods in Holland so you can go
around anytime. **Optional Red Light
District at night: take tram 2 and stop at
Dam.

Grand Place
Mannekin Pis
Jardin du Mont des Arts and
Place Royal
The Atomium and Bruparck
Place du Luxembourg and
European Parliament
Parc du Cinquantenaire
Hotels/Hostels
2GO4 Grand Place Hostel
http://www.2go4.be/qualityhostel/
Hôtel The Moon (256aed+)
Address: Rue de la Montagne 4/B, 1000
Bruxelles, Belgium
Phone:+32 2 508 15 80
Maxhotel
AMSTERDAM
Rijksmuseum is home to The Night Watch
by Rembrandt, The Milkmaid by Johannes
Vermeer and the Portrait of a Young Couple
by Frans Hals. It also has a small Asian art
collection which is on display in the Asian
Pavilion.
Van Gogh Museum has the largest Van
Gogh collection in the world. Van Gogh’s
Self-Portrait, Sunflower and Almond
Blossoms paintings are just some of the 200
paintings you will see in the museum.
Anne Frank House located on Prinsengracht,
one of the main three canals of Amsterdam,
is a museum dedicated to a young Jewish
diarist lady who hid from Nazi persecution
with her family and four others in one of the
hidden rooms in the building. The museum
highlights forms of persecution and
discrimination.
Heineken Museum is a former brewery and
currently a visitor center for the world
famous Amsterdam grown Heineken beer.
Visitors will learn the science of beer
making and the art of beer tasting as all
visitors will receive three complimentary
glasses of beers – one during tasting and
two more while socialising.
Amsterdam Museum formerly known as
the Amsterdam Historic Museum is
Godwin’s favourite among all.
It’s important to know that in Amsterdam, a
café and coffee house (koffiehuis) are both
different from a coffee shop (coffeeshop). A
café is usually a casual restaurant or bar, a
coffee house or koffiehuis sells coffee,
pastries, or light meals; whereas, a
coffeeshop is where you can legally smoke
weed or hash and eat space cakes etc.
(a.k.a. where you can do soft drugs).
 Amsterdam Museum: shows the
history of Amsterdam (website)
 Anne Frank House: of course,  Leiden Square (Leidseplein):
the famous Anne Frank; in here, center of nightlife in Amsterdam,
you can tour her hiding place full of bars and restaurants
during WWII (website)  Central Library (Openbare
Tip: If you want to watch the life Bibliotheek): largest public
of Anne Frank, there’s an library with very good architecture
awesome theater named ‘Theater and design
Amsterdam’ where you can do
so. Check their website here for
their show time schedules.
 Rijksmuseum: Netherlands’ Flights
national museum dedicated to
Dubai to Paris –Turkish airways
arts and history in Amsterdam
(website) 2355.36 (geanea)
 Stedelijk Museum
Amsterdam: museum for Amsterdam to Praque (Easy Jet)
modern and contemporary
art/design – which is the one 518.83 (geane)
shown in the photo
above (website) Budapest to Dubai
 Van Gogh Museum: has 1389.20 (tin)
the world’s largest collection from
the Dutch painter Vincent van Tickets
Gogh (website)
 Centraal Station: for its Disney
magnificent architecture
 Dam Square: the heart of 399.05 (geane)
Amsterdam! In here, you can
Hotel
already see other famous
landmarks such as the Royal Paris- 1274 (tin)
Palace, Nieuwe Kerk (15th-
century church) and the War
Memorial.
 Haarlemmerstraat | The Nine
Streets (De Negen Straatjes)
| The Kalverstraat and
Leidsestraat: shopping districts
 Heineken Experience: if you are
an aficionado of the famous
Dutch pilsner, you can tour their
brewery (website)