Paris Tourist Trap Tips by nygaston

You must know there are generally 2 or 3 prices in a café or a bar:
1/ bar, comptoir (the cheapest price, but often w/o any chair)
2/ salle (you have a table and a chair, and can stay for hours)
3/ terrace (you can seat outside), very expensive in the touristic areas, but it's so nice in summer

ATTENTION
and sometimes, there is a fee after 9pm...

Examples of prices for one expresso café (in 2003-2006):
1/ 1 to 2 Euros
2/ 2 to 4 Euros
3/ 4 to 7 Euros, it's sometimes the price for a small lunch in Paris !!!!!

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At Least Do This: IMPORTANT
You must always watch your values (cell, money, ipod, iphone, etc...) and your bags when you are at the terrasse or in the metro
Mostly if you sit near the door !!!

Some "french" boys are very very fast to catch your purse then run away ....
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Alternative: Bring few cash with you, just enough for each day.

You can buy some drink, ice cream, cakes then go to the Luxembourg Garden.

FREE SEATS
Many chairs are available, it's like at Bryant Park - NYC, and there are music concerts in summer (week-end) at 10am and 2pm.
or walk along the Seine river or on the Island (Ile de la cite).

You do not know where to leave your luggages ?

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At Least Do This: Ask to you hotel if they can keep your luggages.

Sometimes you can leave them at the Airport, the hotel or some big stores in Paris in a big SAFE, called "Consignes Automatiques".
Alternative: AUTOMATIC LUGGAGE BOX (in 2003):

check at www.sncf.fr (Consignes a Bagages)

* SNCF Station:
Angers, Avignon-centre, Bordeaux, Cannes, Lyon-Perrache, Marne ?la Vall?e Chessy, Marseilles, Nantes, Nice, Toulouse.

* Stations of Paris:
Austerlitz/Est/Lyon/Montparnasse/Nord.

The rate is depending of the size:
3,40 Euros (1), 5 Euros (1) ou 7,5 Euros (1) for 72 hours.

MANUAL LUGGAGE BOX:
* Dijon, Lille-Flandres, Lyon-Part Dieu, Metz, Mulhouse, Rennes, Strasbourg. Ouverture p?riodique en gares de Saint-Raphael, Bourg-Saint-Maurice, Moutiers et Saint-Gervais-les-Bains.

Rates: 4,50 ? (1) per lugage (valise, colis), for 24 hours.
Rates: 5,30 ? (1) bike, fauteuil roulant for 24 hours.

(1) Rates on 01/08/2002.

* ATTENTION: for security reasons, it may be closed.