<i>pictures with all the owner's personal stuff around. I find this off putting, and won't consider those apartments.</i>

Apartments such as these are more likely to be owner/occupied, primary residences and are much more likely to be rented legally. I would give high preference to apartments of this type.

Tibor, if you are from the states as the OP apparently is, you can stay just 90 days. You would need a special visa to stay longer.

,,,,, You would need a special visa to stay longer.,,,



What kind special visa, where you get it, how you get it, please !?

<i>What kind special visa, where you get it, how you get it, please?</i>

Tibor08 - you are citizen of what country?

Generally, to obtain a visa for a period in excess of 90 days, you will need to show:

1. financial capability
2. an address in France where you will be staying
3. you are covered by health insurance
4. you have repatriation insurance

There are other requirements but an interview will be conducted at the consulate/embassy near your current place of residence.

<<The tracking of passenger manifests. If you fly, they know when you arrived and when you left, therefore, how long you stayed. >>

My point was - when you're standing at Immigration in Rome FCO getting your passport stamped to leave the Schengen zone, no one is busy checking manifests - they're not checking your passport - they're checking nothing at all. You could have overstayed six months and the immigration officials would be none the wiser.

It may be the digital age but the whole of the European schengen zone is not digitised. It can't be as all passports are not microchipped and they simply don't have the time to stand in a booth and look at arrival and departure dates of every single person.

<<the whole of the European schengen zone is not digitised.>>

If you fly, they indeed are all digitized. Don't confuse what might or might not have been stamped in a passport with any Schengen's country's ability to accurately determined if you have stayed longer than you should have

<if you fly>

Yes - some people arrive via train and depart via ferries, say into Croatia. It's not a foolproof system, people can - and do - overstay without being tracked or penalised.

sarastro..


If i going and stay, Paris 2 months and 2 months in Nice and come back to usa, what gonna happen ?

Tibor08 - are you a US citizen and do you hold a US passport? If so you are part of the visa waiver program. If you live in the USA but have the passport/citizenship of another country it is a whole other issue.

What will happen is you will either be fined, deported or banned from entering a Schengen country for a number of years.

<i>If i going and stay, Paris 2 months and 2 months in Nice and come back to usa, what gonna happen ?</i>


I don´t know. What can happen is as Blueeyedcod points out; deportation. If you are stopped for any reason, such as perhaps a traffic citation, your length-of-stay status can be checked. And while passenger manifests will not show your leaving Italy by ferry to Croatia, you will need to show your passport for such a trip. Croatia is not a Schengen country and passports are checked and stamped even on the ferries.

I understand that as recently as of this year, passenger manifest crosschecks are now being made for those traveling on the Eurostar to the UK.

Staying 4 months on a 90 day visa is a risk. This may be risk with which you are comfortable assuming; but I certainly would not.

If you can stay that long, I'd go with Cherche-Midi. Love the area, close to Le Bon Marche and a great spot for breakfast or lunch owned by Poilane bakery (next door) called Bar de Cuisine.

Many properties listed with ParisAttitude are listed with other web resources and are easy to find with key words from the PA listing. A property of interest I found was also listed on Homelidays and the owner's independent website without the fees and at a significantly lower rate.

Before autumn arrives, I think there may be some huge changes in the vacation rental market in Paris. Watch for news reports.