Okay, the trains don't run as often as the metro ones, but the RER isn't actually a metro line,…read moreit's a regional rail line, or something like that. Anyway, this station is pretty much underneath the d'Orsay Museum, so getting off here will drop you right out the front of the museum, which is pretty cool. Yeah, I did rather like this station, it was convenient.

Not sure why the other reviews and pictures are of a concert hall but I'm pretty sure that this…read morereview is for the metro station itself. Situated right below the Musee D'Orsay, this is the RER line that you take along the Seine but also to the Palace of Versailles. Before you think you can sneak on with a zone 1-3 pass, realize that you have to present your ticket at the other end as well. If you have an incorrect ticket, then you won't be able to exit. They start moving at about 5AM but the palace is really open at 9. Take that into account. If you're going to the Palace from this station it will be about 30-45 min before you get to the other end. There is a train attendant here to help you with tickets. Not all stations have one! Easy to access and allows you to get to all the main Paris attractions.

I used the heck out of this Metro station while in Paris last week. We stayed in La Defense and…read moreit's a LONG way from everything you want to see in Paris by foot or taxi (expensive). So I quickly learned that metro is the way to go - this station was like a 5 minute walk outside the hotel and I was easily able to purchase one-way tickets for anywhere I wanted to go. I found staff helpful when asked questions (only once) or if we needed to purchase from them (again once) and they have clean and on-time trains. Two or three exits make it easier to come out where you need to be.

A major Metro interchange on the southern bank of the River Seine in Paris, the Metro la…read moreMotte-Picquet-Grenelle provides a busy interconnection of lines 6, 8, and 10 of the Paris Metro system. My nephew and I used it as a connection point to go from near the Eiffel Tower to the National Library. It was also the only stop during my Paris subway travels where security was scanning tickets/cards to catch fare evaders. As far as I saw, everybody was compliant.

Taking a metro in Paris is just like taking a metro in other parts of the world. Know where you…read moreare, know where to go and pick the best line to take. Ask the worker if you don't know which line/lines to take. Most of the times the workers will help you. La Motte-Picquet-Grenelle Metro is Paris metro train station for lines 6, 8 and 10.

I do not recommend this hotel. It looks nothing like the photos online!!! The first room we were…read moreput in reeked of smoke to the point where I was having a massive headache and felt like vomiting. The shower was literally right next to the toilet with absolutely no separation. I kid you not, not even a curtain. I guess you could multitask by washing your hair while you took care of business. The TV did not work and creepily enough, an employee came to the door as soon as we noticed the issue... She never came back either. We also had a stellar view of the street and could hear from every single person yelling on the street. I was fed up with this and took it up to the desk. When I recited this list, the employee was not apologetic and begrudgingly changed us to another room. It was decent. The pictures are from this upgraded room which was on the 4th floor so we could open our windows. They claim to have AC but it is locked at certain temperature and INCREDIBLY weak. I'm talking like the little fans that you wear around your neck. There was no fridge (even though the room from hell did), no shower curtain, BLACK MOLD, and a crack toilet seat that'd pinch you everytime you sat on it. The only good thing about this place is how close it is to the Gare du Nord but otherwise, terrible accommodations, unreliable staff and pricey!

1 star review. deserved for this hotel. i recently stayed here for 3 nights. the room itself was…read morefine, everything around it was horrible! the service gets a 0/10. first of all, when we arrived we were told our room would be ready in an hour. so we left and came back after an hour and a half, only to be told our room wasn't ready for another hour. fine, so we went outside again. we came back and got "our" key at 15:00. when we went up to "our" room i opened the door to 2 people having sex in the room, i wish i was kidding. i went back to the reception where acinu "helped" me. he told me our real room was not ready and we again had to wait. he offered nothing for the traumatizing experience of me walking in on two people. we had to wait for our room until 16:00, but at least we got one day of free breakfast for the inconvenience of waiting, but nothing offered for the incident. after asking for the manager we got offered a 17 euro boat tour to compensate as we would not be able to get our money back or a discount. the whole situation was handled horribly. acinu was no help at all and didn't seem to care about the situation. it was his manager who apologized and offered anything at all. the breakfast we got for free was of bad quality, very minimal. the wifi also sucks btw. the rooms are not soundproof at all, you can hear anything going on in the other rooms as well as in the hall. the personell does not take this into account as they are giggling and talking very loudly in the halls in the early morning. the staff also does not speak english well and look at you like you are crazy for speaking it to them. completely disregard you and speak in french to each other. even though i knew some french, they pretended to not understand anything and would just walk away without helping me further. overall, the room itself was good, especially for the price. but the service was so so so SO horrible. i cannot justify anything above 1 star.

What's the best way to see paris for $2? On a bike!…read more One of my Paris highlights were this bikes! Though they may look clunky and hideous, they are great way to get you anywhere. After a couple days of walking everywhere my legs were dying. As much as I wanted to see everything paris had to offer my legs were telling me NO! Good thing we decided to try these bikes out because they saved our legs and took us to places faster than our two feet ever would. The website makes renting these bikes simple enough. You register online and pay with card and create a PIN. An email is sent to you with user numbers, that you'll need to enter in the kiosk to get a bike and don't forget your pin. As long as you return the bike to a station within 30 minutes you're guaranteed a $2 paris excursion all on two wheels. Most of the station are available on most popular areas and around the corners in big intersections. You can always rent the bike from the kiosk if you don't have time to register online. When you return your bike make sure to see a green light appear on your stand. If not, you can go to the main kiosk and troubleshoot from there. My light went orange in one instance because I shoved it in the wrong angle and the kiosk released it, so I could retry sliding it in. It was fun biking around like a local because even the locals use them. It was super scary biking on crowded roads with cars, but compared to America, french drivers are totally aware of their surroundings. The insurance you have with these bikes are they are heavy and big enough to keep you stable and withstand a lot of beatings. The fenders on the bike also come in handy for those spontaneous mother nature drizzles.

Velib was super easy to use. I bought a 1-day use ONLINE for $1.70 euro or $2.12 USD. (The first 30…read moreminutes of each bike use is free and then you get billed 1 euro for every 30 additional minutes.) After buying online, it was super easy. All I had to do was enter in my account number, which was sent to me in my confirmation email, enter the PIN number I created online and then select the bike number I was going to use. Done! Most of the bikes are in good shape with quick release seat, bike light, bike lock etc but a few needed a quick tune-up. If you find yourself returning your bike to a full station, you can enter your PIN number into the machine and you get 15 minutes to find another nearby station. What is amazing is that there are over 20,000 "community" Velib bikes across 1,500 different stations that are located all over Paris! There is even a smartphone app that you can use to find out where the closest Velib station is at so you can return the bike and which station has available bikes to use. It was a great way for us to see Paris from a different perspective. Most of my friends that saw our Paris pictures said, "Wow, that's so cool that you rode bikes in Paris."

Well, I guess this is another one of those random stations that I came to, probably because I was…read morelooking to get myself down to the Louvre, not that I was going to be able to get in. Anyway, like a lot of these stations, this one was pretty convenient, but then again in central Paris you aren't actually all that far from a metro station, like this one, which is pretty cool. Also, like a lot of them, you can use this one to transfer as well.

Where to start with the TGV train…read more First, logistically on the surface it appears to be an amazing option. You fly in, go through customs, get on the train, have a short trip, and you're at Disneyland Paris. But the reality is it's hard to find the train because there's no signage that lists TGV, just signs with a picture of a train, so we walked toward it hoping it was the correct area. The trains themselves also lack signage. So we got on a TGV train at the correct time, in the correct place, thinking it was our train. But we had tickets for a car that wasn't there, so in the end our first class tickets were useless and we sat next to the bathroom. There was no announcement in English so we used Google Maps to confirm we were in fact, in the correct spot, but for a bit we were worried we'd gotten on a random train and had no idea where we were going because there are 0 attendants in the cars to ask. In the train cars the aisles are small and tend to be cramped because a lot of people have luggage that blocks the walkways, so generally the navigating experience simply wasn't pleasant when compared to a bullet train like in Japan. All in all, we don't plan to go back to Disneyland Paris because the transit to the park was so difficult - I generally find Ubers easier (and in this case cheaper) to use - so overall I recommend hiring a private car to take you to and from Disneyland Paris and foregoing the TGV train.

This is a really big airport. As far as International European airports go, I really like this…read moreone. There are signs easily pointing you in the right direction to where you need to go and there is a train station really close to the airport, which is a huge thing for me. There are plenty of food and drink options in the airport as well so you should be able to find something to grab while waiting for a flight. All in all, I've been to this airport a few times and its always a smooth transit.

This airport is not very big, but they were very tight on security compared to any other airport I…read morehad ever been too. Our boarding passes were scanned and checked twice on our way to security, once before emigration, again at security, at the gate and then again just before entering the plane... a total of 6 checks while normally it's only 2 or three times at other airports like Heathrow and Tokyo. The queues for everything were very long, especially the emigration queue that we barely made it to our flight. Everything is very slow and inefficient. In terms of shopping and food, there is not much and prices for food are expensive. €1.20 for an apply is a bit much. They have a coffee chain called Paul's which is similar to something like Starbucks, but otherwise there is not much in terms of actual restaurants. There is a PS4 gaming area, Arcade and a media room with a bunch of tablets near the gates to kill time, which I haven't seen at any other airport, which was probably the only good thing I found about Orly. Wifi is free, but you need to sign up with an email address. There are plenty of taxi scammers outside right beside the taxi rank, so be careful or better yet, use Uber. It costs about €45-50 to get to Paris, but the public transport from Orly is very limited otherwise.

This is by far the most confusing airport I have ever been to !…read more They have check in counters in the underground and good luck finding where to go to get down there if you need to , because not much staff speak English or don't want to ! Anyways this is by far the worst airport I've been in yet ! Eat before you go And go early to find your ticket counter !