Paris Things to Do Tips by GUYON

With these cards you can visit without queueing 70 museums in Paris and nearby including :
Arc de Triomphe, Army Museum, Centre G. Pompidou, M. Canavalet, Cité des Sciences, Institut du Monde Arabe, Louvre, M. de la Marine, Thermes de Cluny, Notre Dame Crypt, Orsay, M. Rodin, Sainte Chapelle, Vincennes Castle

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Directions: To buy: in museums, major subway stations, Tourism Offices Paris, FNAC, Batobus.

All you want to know about science.
Most interesting activities : planetarium (I think, the first in the world, but fortunately the machine has been renewed), experiments by scientists, if you understand French. In this matter, I recommend : the genetic (they have a machine which shows the mix of genes), the electrostatic (your hair stands on by a high intensity electricity), the rats school (is the rat able to go over the labyrinth ?), the liquid air (be aware to not catch a cold).
For further information, see www.palais-decouverte.fr
- Entrance : 5.60 Euros with the planetarium,
- 18/+60 : 3.70 E, family (4 persons including children +5) : 12.20 E (+A child = +2.30 E).
Every day excepted Monday : 9.30AM - 6PM (Sunday : 10AM-7PM)

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Address: Avenue Franklin Roosevelt
Directions: Near the Champs Elysees
(Metro : Franklin-Roosevelt)
Other Contact: French knowledge is necessary

See the boulevards Montmartre and Poissonnière
Walk from the corner Rue de Richelieu-Bd Montmartre to Strasbourg St Denis. A sidewalk in a direction, and the other sidewalk in the opposite direction.
Look at the shops, the restaurants, the coffee shops, the theaters, the cinemas (especially the REX : one of the best cinemas of Paris), the Musée Grévin (Wax Museum) .
Do the same walk Bvd des Italiens between Richelieu-Drouot and Opera.

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Address: Bd Montmartre (métro : Richelieu-Drouot)

Your personal drawing in Place du Tertre (Montmartre)
The Place du Tertre was the main place of the Village of Montmartre. The year round it is invaded by painters and artists. You can have for few Francs your drawing or your caricature or your silhouette cut in a black sheet of paper.

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Directions: Metro : Abbesse then take the funicular to reach the top of the hill

A large range of master pieces of the Middle Age (14 & 15ecenturies mainly) especially : the tapestries of the Dame with the Unicorn, the statues of the Juda Kings which were on the frontage of Notre Dame and partly destroyed during the Revolution.

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Phone: 331 53 73 78 00 or 78 16
Address: 6 place Paul Painlevé - 5° arrondissement
Directions: Metro : Cluny , St Michel
Bus : 63 . 86 . 87 . 21 . 85 . 38
Website: www.musee-moyenage.fr
Other Contact: Fax : 331 43 25 85 27

Visit the Louvre Museum (Art & History)
One of the largest museums in the world. When you walk in the different rooms it is like to turn over the pages of an art book.
If you like to queue and if you want to pay the entrance do not go on the Travelogue Louvre Museum.

Open daily (except Tuesday) - 9AM to 5:45PM (9:45PM on Wednesday)

Ticket : 7.50 Euros, 5 Euros after 3PM and Sunday, free the 1st Sunday of the month.

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Phone: 331.40.20.51.51
Address: Louvre
Directions: (Métro : Louvre Rivoli or Palais Royal)
Parking : Carrousel du Louvre with direct access to the Museum.
Website: www.louvre.fr
Other Contact: See the Louvre travelogue

Art of the 19? and 20? centuries : painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, furniture.
Do not forget to get a free map of the museum at the entrance.
The building was initially a railway station and not a museum. So it is easy to be lost.
I went a Sunday morning at 9:30AM, no line, no payment. When I left the museum at the end of the morning, there was a line but it was still free because it was the first Sunday of the month of February.
Open daily : 10AM to 6PM except Thursday 9:45. Close on Monday.
Price : 7? except on Sunday : 5?
(first Sunday of the Month = free).

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Phone: 01.40.49.48.14/01.53.63.04.50
Address: 1 rue de la Legion d'Honneur
Directions: Metro : Solferino or Orsay (RER C)
Entrances : individual : Quai Anatole France.
Group : rue de Lille

The Wax Museum is reopen since June 2002.
The presentation is now better than the prior one and the museum is now at the level of Madame Tussaud's in London.
There is a tour within the museum allowing to see the stars of sport, spectacle and cinema and also a lot of histirical characters.

2 criticisms : the pupets are messed up and one goes rapidly from Marylin Monroe to the Napoleon's family.
The "Palais des mirages" was out of order when we visited the museum. They would have to repare it during the remodling.

Price : 15 Euros. Reduction for senior (+60) and young (till 14).

On the picture : good likeness for the pope (Bush's pupet is failed. They must have worked with photographes)

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Phone: 331.47.70.85.05
Address: 10 blvd Montmartre 9e rrondissement
Directions: Metro : Grands Boulevards.
Between the Passage des Panoramas and the Restaurant TGI'S FRIDAY.
Other Contact: Daily:10AM-5:30PM(6PM Sun/Sat)

Asterix and his Friend, Obelix are two Gallics who lived in Britany and who refused to surrender at Cesar after the defeat of Vercingetorix.
They are drawing heros and an amusement park is dedicated to them.
Price : 31 Euros (adult) 23 Euros (3 to 12)
An example of success for a French style amusement park.

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Directions: At near 30 Km from Paris by the Highway A1.
By RER (metro) Roissy Charles de Gaulle then a shuttle.

Several companies propose cruises on Seine (1H to 1H30) for a price between 7 and 9 €.
The lunch and dinner are more expensive and on my opinion, too expensive (50 to 125€)
Generally, the boats go as far as the Quai Henri IV (East) and the Tour Eiffel (West).
To find a boat go :
- to Square du Vert Galant (Ile de la Cite)
- to Quai de Montebello (Left Bank)
- to Pont de l'Alma (Left bank)
An idea : take the Batobus. With a 1 day ticket (10 €) you can go along the Seine and stop at the 8 stations for visiting (10AM to 7PM).

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