Paris Hotel Rooms

We share with you a simple Paris Travel info, for you can find out about the different ways to get to Paris and, when there, how to get around the city’s most happening neighborhoods by bus, Métro, taxi, bike, and on foot. Don’t worry about where you’ll sleep or what you’ll eat — that’s all taken care of here with descriptions of some of the best centrally located and reasonably priced hotels and restaurants in Paris. Discover where to eat when you’re in a hurry or just don’t have room for a big meal. And finally, we tell you about our top picks for cafes, where you can sit back, read the paper, write your postcards, or best of all, watch people — while lingering over a coffee or a glass of wine.

It’s easy to get to Paris. As France’s capital, the major auto routes converge here, trains arrive here from all parts of France and Europe, and the city is served by two airports, Aéroport Charles-de-Gaulle and Aéroport d’Orly. This section covers getting to Paris by plane.

Most visitors to Paris land at Aéroport Charles-de-Gaulle, the larger, busier, and more modern airport — commonly known
as CDG and sometimes called Roissy–Charles-de-Gaulle — which is 23km (15 miles) northeast of downtown Paris. Nearly all direct flights from
North America arrive at CDG, which is laid out in an orderly fashion. The airport is well signposted and is a fairly easy adjustment as your entrance
into France.

Bilevel Terminal 1 (Aérogare 1) is the older and smaller of CDG’s two terminals and is used by foreign airlines; narrow escalators and moving
sidewalks connect its podlike glass terminals. The bright and spacious Terminal 2 (Aérogare 2) is used by Air France, domestic and intra-
European airlines, and some foreign airlines, including Air Canada. It’s divided into halls A through F. You cand find the shuttle bus (navette) connects the
two terminals.

Find ATMs in the arrival areas of the airports along with bureaux de change, where you can exchange dollars for euros, but you’re better off
buying and bringing 200€ from your bank at home. Airport ATMs are notorious for being broken when you need them most, and the airport
bureaux de change are just as notorious for their bad rates of exchange.