Arc de Triomphe Elevator

Old Apr 24th, 2015, 02:16 PM
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Arc de Triomphe Elevator

We will be traveling to Paris with a friend who has a hip replacement and cannot do the stairs. I know there is an elevator. Will he be able to use it or should he bring something that says he has a hip replacement? I also read on tripadvisor that you can ride up but have to walk down which doesn't make very much sense to me. Also, do you think they will allow his wife with knee problems to accompany him in elevator? Thnx
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Old Apr 24th, 2015, 02:27 PM
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Anyone can use the elevator but yes, you do have to walk down - I guess it's about traffic control in the small area where the elevator lands you. There are also more stairs to negotiate to the outdoor viewing platform.
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Old Apr 24th, 2015, 03:14 PM
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Well, what do people in wheelchairs and with strollers do? Seems very very odd. If the elevator goes up full, why should it go down empty?
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Old Apr 24th, 2015, 03:22 PM
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I wondered about that, too. A few years ago we rode the elevator up. It lets you off in as sort of gift shop area short of the top of the Arc. You still have some 20 stairs to climb (don't remember exactly). After your time at the top you must walk down those stairs to the gift shop. We thought we could push the button on the elevator to get it to come for us, but there is no button! We waited around for awhile, hoping someone would come up the elevator and get off, so we could jump on when the door was open. No luck, so we walked down approximately a zillion helical stairs to the bottom.
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Old Apr 24th, 2015, 04:16 PM
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The above is a cut and past from the official website

http://en.parisinfo.com/paris-museum...nts-Nationaux#
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Old Apr 25th, 2015, 07:25 AM
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2 weeks ago we rode the elevator up and down. I asked the person sitting in the little office across from the elevator if it was working. She said yes so I asked if we could take it up. She said yes and took us up. As described above it lets you out at a gift shop and there are some stairs to get to the terrace.

When we were ready to go down there was no one to ask to take us down in the elevator so we decided to walk. My group headed toward the stairs when all of a sudden the elevator door open and people got off. The elevator operator was the same person that brought us up and when I asked if she could take us down, she said yes so I quickly gathered up my group and we rode it down.

Everyone in my group is physically able to do the stairs so I did not try to find anyone to ask about taking us down. It was just pure luck the door opened when it did. There must be a way to find someone to take you down. Maybe work it out with the person who takes you up and agree on a time to come down or they can tell you who to ask at the top when you are ready to go down. At any rate, we rode it up and down and were very happy to save our legs for other Parisian walking and climbing.
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Old Apr 25th, 2015, 01:08 PM
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Oh thank you John! Great idea! I was even thinking my husband and I could walk down, ask the operator to go up and pick up our friends.
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I had the same experience as John. In 2012 I had sprained my ankle right before our trip. I used the elevator going up and down. Since it was summer, the elevator was getting a lot of traffic, so I didn't have to wait long at all for the elevator to arrive.

The hardest part, I guess, is remembering where it is!
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I was there last week. Took the elevator uo to the gift shop, museum level, then 56 more steps to the top. We took the elevator back down as well. There are also stairs to go through the underground passage to the Arch. There's no other way to get there. But there are hand rails on all the staircases and you can take it slow if you need to.
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