We plan to travel to Paris in late June with my husband, two children (9 and 11) and my mother. We are looking for a reasonable hotel. We will be renting a car in Germany and plan on driving to Paris for just a few days. Would it be more sensible to book a hotel in the suburbs of Paris and have a place to park the rental car and then take the public transportation into Paris, or are there hotels in Paris that accomodate with reasonable parking rates? Suggestions for hotels would be appreciated!!
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I would not recommend driving in Paris proper: road signs / names are difficult to see, and parking is very expensive.
You will not need the car while in Paris, so I%26#39;d consider parking outside the city and travelling in by train to a central hotel. It%26#39;s much better to stay in the city than in the suburbs. If you%26#39;re coming in from Germany then look in the area around Chessy /Marne la Vallee, for parking.
www.vincipark.com is a great site. Click onthe blue %26#39;P%26#39; at the bottom right, then %26#39;En Ile de France%26#39; then the area %26#39;77%26#39; and then Chessy. This is a huge parking area near Disneyland from where it%26#39;s an easy direct 45 minute train journey into central Paris. Parking will cost EUR10 per 24hours.
There are hundreds of hotels within Paris proper, if you post details of your chosen area, and budget, it will help in making suggestions for you.
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I dont think you will be happy staying in the burbs. You just dont get to experience Paris that way and the commute is a hassle. Some of the larger chain hotels will have parking. Some smaller ones may also although I dont know of a specific one. Maybe someone else will jump in on that. You can also park the car in one of the many many underground secure parking lots about the city. You will invariably be able to find one within a few blocks of your hotel. To give you a price example, the parking at St Suplice is 25 euros for day and has a 3 day price of 52 euros and 14 euros for each additional day. I dont know if that allows in / out or if you have to just park the car and leave it.
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Try searching the forum with %26quot;parking%26quot; using the text field in the upper right part of the screen, I had the same problem, made some research and you will find my answer somewhere in the past along with others...
Good luck!
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Could you return the rental car?
Like the other posters, I do not recommend staying in the suburbs unless they are Neuilly, Saint Mande, Levallois etc. And you will have to pay for parking there too.
Driving into Paris is not that difficult if you are used to driving in big cities.You have to do a mapquest search, find your %26quot;porte de Paris%26quot; and follow the signs that are pretty good at giving general directions.
If you come from Germany you will be entering near Bercy and you have to follow the Seine and rue de Rivoli.
I use the parking under the Madeleine church when needed. It is also there that I rent a car at Avis.
Some hotels I know in that area are:
Hotel de l%26#39;Arcade on rue de l%26#39;Arcade, Hotel Folkestone on rue Castellane, Hotel Queen Mary on rue Greffuhle. This is the right bank and posters tend to prefer the left bank with Saint Germain and Quartier latin. I find my area to be very practical for public transportation and easy as a starting point to walk to Louvre, Champs Elysees, Opera, Department stores etc. It also has many restaurants and cafes even though it is definitely quieter at night than the left bank (that you can reach easily by using bus 21, 27, 95 or metro line 12, exit rue du Bac, Sevre Babylone, Rennes, Notre Dame des Champs etc.
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Thanks for the link to Vinci Park, Kebabs! This is a great resource for those of us planning to drive to Paris:
http://www.vincipark.com/appli/wvncprk/wvncprkimp.nsf/(wv3villeframe)/Chessy?OpenDocument%26amp;i
To find the train into Paris, go to:
http://ratp.fr/
then click on %26quot;Plan Interactiv%26quot; on the upper left of the page (turn off your popup blocker), then click the %26quot;RER%26quot; box to see the lines, take the red %26quot;A%26quot; line into Paris.
ratp.fr also has the bus/metro plans as well.
Cheers,
Colin
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