GregoireAUS

My wife and I are spending 6 nights in Paris starting from the 14th May. We don't have any transfers organised and I'm thinking about buying the weekly ticket at the airport. Our hotel is the Adagio Access Vanves Porte de Versailles, Vanves. I've had a look at the Paris metro map and I think we're fortunate enough to be pretty close to a metro stop. My question is, is it simple enough to buy the weekly ticket from CDG and should i go for outer zone one that costs more. I am of the opinion that I should, as our hotel is a little way out of Central Paris, about 8km max i think, Eiffel Tower is 4km in a straight line from what I can tell. Slightly anxious in case you can't tell, first time to Paris.

StCirq

I wouldn't even bother with a weekly ticket -I'd just get a carnet of tickets.

GregoireAUS

well, at the moment we'll probably use the metro to get around and see the sights and come back to our hotel day to day, so i thought one weekly ticket would be more convenient.

Sarastro

You could purchase a Navigo Decouverte giving you unlimited travel from May14th up to and including the 20th which will cost 19.15 euros giving access to central Paris only or pay 33.90 euros for access to Versailles, Disney, and CDG.

You can purchase the Navigo Decouverte at CDG, there is a one time charge of 5 euros for the ND card and you will need to supply a passport sized photo.

greg

I hope you have looked at various hotel reviews before booking your hotel. Some of the recent posts complain about lack of housekeeping and the room being a smoking room.

I presume at this stage it is too late, but there are hotels like Hôtel Le Clément and others located in the center that shave off about 15min from your trip to the center with housekeeping. It does come with higher prices than Adagio, about €50 more in case of Le Clement.

Here are several ongoing list of Paris hotels. Here are some I could find readily:
http://www.fodors.com/community/euro...ank-thread.cfm
http://www.fodors.com/community/euro...and-france.cfm (your hotel is not this far...)

apersuader65

Assuming you went into Paris and back each day, with two of you traveling, you'd need a minimum of three carnet's of tickets just getting from your hotel and back, with 3 trips apiece left over for the rest of your travel. I'd go with the Navigo for zones 1-2. If you decide to go outside 2, then buy a supplement ticket, for example for Versailles.

PalenQ

and the room being a smoking room.>

which if so would that be a violation of French law - my son, French, said he was told on Dec 31 of some year a few years back that by his CDG desk that that was the last night by law hotels could offer smoking rooms. Or was that inaccurate and the law does provide for some smokers rooms in hotels? Thanks for any clarification!

Bianca_P

I would get the weekly ticket - just remember to bring passport photos with you as you will need them.

If your metro station is Porte de Versailles then you shouldn't need anything outside zone 1 unless you are planning some day trips: this location is in the 15th arrondissement and so still within what is classed as central Paris/zone 1 for metro ticket purposes (zone 2 includes places like Neuilly, Levallois...).

Sarastro

Zones mean nothing if travelling on the métro. A métro ticket (ticket t+) is good and valid wherever the métro goes, even into zone 3. Same with the bus with a few exceptions such as 299,350, and 351.

However, if using a ticket t+ for RER travel, the t+ is valid only among RER stations within zone 1.

CarolA

Well, Marriott still seems to offer a smoking option. Now do the really have smoking rooms? Not a clue.

Plus I have stayed in lots of non smoking rooms that reeked