2 days in Paris
 

What highlights do you suggest for just two days in Paris?

is this two full days or is this really just one full day?

How many nights?

It is two full days - staying 3 nights

It is hard to say without knowing your interests.....if you dislike Picasso, no point in sending you to the Picasso Museum.

I'd choose 2 museums, one per day. My choice would be Musee d'Orsay and Rodin Museum but yours may be very different. I'd choose one or two parks depending on the time of year and plan on taking a Seine cruise after dark. I'd spend what time I had left just wandering, sitting in cafes or enjoying some excellent meals.

Thanks for the information

"if you dislike Picasso, no point in sending you to the Picasso Museum."

Especially since it's closed at the moment! LOL

If this is your first visit to Paris, I'd suggest the Louvre Museum for just a couple of hours.

The Musee d'Orsay would be a totally different experience for the second day.

The rest of the time - just walk.

There are all kinds of ways to walk Paris and enjoy the numerous sights. Every guide book seems to have a "one-day", "two-day", etc walking section. You can check on those or design one of your own.

For example, you could start out at the Trocadero, walk beneath the Eiffel Tower, through the Champs de Mars to the Ecole Militaire, up past Les Invalides to the Alexander III Bridge, cross that, go to the Place de la Concorde and the Tuileries, then up the Champs Elysses to the Arc de Triomphe.

IMHO

Louvre highlights
Musee d'Orsay
Notre Dame
St Chapelle
Eiffel Tower
A lot of walking interspersed with some cafe sitting

The above is doable in 2 days if you start early and don;t dawdle (except for the cafe sitting)

Be sure to include a walk along the banks of the Seine and cross a couple of the better bridges - esp the Pont Neuf

I think nytraveler has an excellent list to which I would add only an evening Seine Cruise. If you let us know some of your reasons for going to Paris, we might be able to help you out a bit better.

Have you looked up Paris under "destinations"?

I'll be different and start with my suggestions of what you should skip.

Walk through the Louvre Plaza--gorgeous--but skip the inside. IMO, way to overwhelming for such a short visit(we didn't go inside until our 3rd visit to Paris.)

The Champs E.--the Arch de Triomphe was interesting, but the Champs was one of our biggest disappointments in Paris. Way too commercial, full of car dealerships,etc.

Invalides--huge, gray, and boring--unless you are into that sort of thing.

After 8 trips to Paris, we still have things on our list to see. During our initial trips, the most charming and interesting to us were the following:

Eiffel Tower--beautiful at night and shorter lines.

Seine river cruise--great to get oriented to the city We also loved the cruise at night. This is the one we like.
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Luxemborg Gardens--remains one of our favorite places in Paris.

Place Vosges in the Marais for lunch followed by The Carnavalet Museum. It's close by, small, charming, and easy to navigate.

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The other museum I would look at would be D'Orsay.

Notre Dame and Ile St. Louis are another must. Don't count on going to the top of Notre Dame, the lines are horrendous. St. Chapelle is stunning, but only on a sunny day, and sometimes the lines are very long wasting a lot of time.

Wandering the Left Bank in the St. Germain area is also on my must list. We particularly like the streets around St. Severin---so many cute cafes and shops.

This, of course, is just our view on Paris. If you tell us your interests, we can direct you in a better manner.