Love this beautiful metro station. Built in 1849, you can just imagine all of this history that has…read moretravelled on these tracks. For the Paris Olympics, it was so easy to use this station to get to the venues. Follow the pink directional signs or the app to navigate your journey.

The Gare de l'Est (East Station) is two train stations: one being part of the Paris Metro line,…read moreconnecting Lines 4, 5, and 7 and the other being the one of seven Paris mainline stations supporting TGV (Train à Grande Vitesse) going to various cities in Europe. My nephew and I had planned a weekend trip to Luxembourg, and this station was the origination of the 2.5 hour high-speed trip, beginning early on a Saturday morning. We came from different places in Paris using Metro, and met up here. The walk from the Metro part of the station to the main central holding area takes a bit of time, with need to closely follow signs pointing to Gare de l'Est. About 24 minutes before the scheduled departure of our train, the platform number came up on the big board. At that point, we used the QR code from our purchased ticket to pass through the security gate of the platform. Then it was a long outdoor walk parallel to the train until one finds the correct car. We left right on-time. We came back to the same station from Luxembourg, and it was a simple matter of reversing direction back to the Metro side of the station to get back to our dorm/hotel.

My boys love any unique mode of transit, and they were pretty into the Funiculaire de Montmartre…read more The Funiculaire opened in 1900 and was, at the time, a functioning funicular, with two connected, counterbalancing cars moving in opposite directions. I guess it's been reconfigured in the years since and is now more of an inclined elevator, but "Inclined Elevator de Montmartre" doesn't have the same ring to it. My older son was feeling sick the day we went to Montmartre, and the Funicular provided both entertainment and an easy way up the steep hill to Sacre Couer. It was a short, pleasant walk from the train station and was easy to get on, as it's operated by the same state-owned system as the Metro. The motion was not particularly exciting, but it was cool going up a hill in a big diagonal elevator. The ride was short, and it deposited us at the top of Montmartre, where we could use our energy to see the sights. Highly recommend if you want to skip the uphill walk, or if you or your kids might enjoy a faux funicular.

Wow this is a "don't miss" for me in Paris. The funicular takes you up or down the very steep…read morehillside to Sacre Couer at the top of Montmartre. We had gone running to get to the top, then gone to mass at Sacre Couer, and just happened across the funicular walking downhill from the church. We took it down the hillside, but could see that it was far more popular going up from the crowd at the station at the bottom of the hill. It's clean, well run and your Paris Metro card works at the gate. It's also great for people watching and views

Love all the tile work in this station. It's big with lots of space to move around. We were able to…read morenavigate easily with clear route signs.

This is the closest metro station to my apartment in Paris, and I have taken it every morning to go…read moreto work in La Défense. Usually on weekday mornings the trains are already pretty full by the time they get to Argentine, but a lot of people get off between Argentine and La Défense (especially at Porte Maillot) and there's reasonable standing room. Line 1 is also a mostly automated line, so the trains come very often and service is uninterrupted during transport strikes (although the trains get much more crowded). This metro station is also a very short walk from the Arc de Triomphe, so convenient if you want to visit that. There are 2 exits, each of which spits you out on either side of the multi-lane traffic of the Avenue de la Grande-Armée, so I'd pay attention to the best exit, although it's not hard to cross if you pick the wrong one. The exit "rue des Acacias" is best if you want to go in the direction of the place Saint-Ferdinand/Ternes/17th arrondissement. The station is reasonably clean, although there have been a few times where I've gotten off at the far corner of the platform and caught a whiff of urine. One time I had an issue with my Navigo and the woman working at the guichet was helpful and polite. Overall, a good station from which to access the 16th and 17th arrondissements, and the Arc de Triomphe.

During my most recent trip to Paris for the Olympic summer games, this was a very convenient…read moretransit station for me to use in getting around Paris for the different event venues. From here you can access the Métro 1, 2, and 6 lines as well as the RER A train. The station exits right at L'Arc de Triomphe and Av. des Champs-Élysées! There were plenty of signage all throughout the station so it was impossible to get lost.

A great way to travel around Europe, the Metro offer is quick and fairly easy access to many points…read moreof interest

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 !