Hi 111

if you go to "Profile" you can change your email address (attractive for those who don't want to get 'caught' and just sign up for new accounts at yahoo), you can change your password, and, at the bottom, you can delete your entire listing.

Thanks elaine. Now I know.

Actually it's pretty interesting how people can have so much time on their hands to use multiple accounts -- but then I guess I waste my time some other way. :-)

I'm sorry Elaine. As I get older, people confound me more and more.
Seems to me, you've been kind, witty and helpful on this forum. I don't get the animosity.
Stay on board, please? You're the most organized person! How I admire that!!
And, **** 'em

it's because 'those people' don't really travel.
:)

thanks, SuzieC
Organized on some things perhaps, but definitely not on others
You should see the envelope with my bits and pieces for my taxes!
:)

I don't know who MrsPNelson is, but it seems to me that a new participant who is attacked the way she was would have good reason to desubscribe and disappear.

What was it about MrsPNelson's initial question about the $1000 budget for two for a week in Paris that set everybody off?

Ckenb:

It was not MrsPNelson's question about Paris restaurants that set us off but her posts in a thread called, I think, "Breakfast in Italy."

There, she attacks Elaine violently, in a fashion that regular users are very accustomed to seeing under her roughly 10 to 20 previous "incarnations."

I am kinda of new to this BB thing but I know I like it. its almost like reading a bunch of travel books everyday
for free. I just don't get why someone
would use more then one screen name to try to fool other posters? LOL, I guess it takes all kinds of people to make up this crazy would we live in.

In reading this thread, it does seem to have come off the rails rather quickly. I was going to suggest a few places for $135 for two .... I realize that exceeds the number posted .... and like Elaine, I find $1000 for a week a bit low. I would suggest the poster consult the Cheap Eats book ... our experiece, as recently as a trip to Paris in January this year, confirms this is one very reliable source for moderately priced restaurants. I do wish the poster good luck, but she ought to forget the $100 idea. Unless you wish to shop and then dine in your hotel room. We've actually done that for lunch once or twice, with a nice red, and it was a pleasant break.

I think it would be easy to spend $100 a day for meals for two people in Paris. But if I wanted to spend less, I could. I just wouldn't go to famous restaurants.

I don't really think that $1000 is too low. If that's what there is to spend, it's just right! :)

For someone who actually IS going to Paris and was thinking that they could get decent dinners for two for under $100 I ask this question: If we aren't wine drinkers, does this make it more feasible? We are going for five days and I am allotting about $800 for lunch and dinner. I'm also pretty picky so I won't be eating anything very fancy. ;) I would love to get the advice of well traveled fodorites since I am such a newbie. Thanks.

At five days and $800, can you handle it on $100 per dinner and $60 per lunch? In the final analysis, you're really the only person who can address your question. If $800 is what you have to spend for five days, then that's that.

I am new to this bb, so I don't get all on the inside stuff with trolls, elaine, etc.... but it does seem that there are some people who genuinely want to know what to budget for Paris.
You don't have to go to nice restaurants every day. There are plenty of other options, for example, lunch in a cafe, crepes from a stand, falafel in the Marais, Vietnamese sandwiches in the 13th, a sandwich/quiche from a bakery or a picnic from a market.
For more affordable restaurants, check out the Latin Qtr, or around the Bastille area.

Hi 88
Yes, it's feasible. It's not that prices in French restaurants have skyrocketed per se, it's just because of the unfavorable euro-dollar exchange rate that a
30 euro dinner becomes a $40+ dinner.

I'd suggest for lunches keeping things simple, salad, omelette, crepes. Plenty of places offer that. Stay away from American soft drinks like Coke, that will add up, as will bottled water.
Ask for un carafe d'eau, a pitcher of tap water.

Let me suggest that for dinner you rely on the many suggestions available here (search on Paris restaurant)
One place last month that we thought were good deals were Perraudin, in the 5th, and for a bit more of a 'splurge', Chez Maitre Paul. Both can be searched on here by name.

We had one dinner at La Fontaine de Mars, which is very often praised here.
We didn't care for it much, we were surrounded by smokers for one thing, but it turned out to be our most expensive dinner by far and not a good value for what it was, we thought. I just got my credit card bill, for two people it came to $149 and we ordered from the regular menu and shared a half-bottle of house wine which was only, I think, about 14 euro.

phread, I see you registered about a half hour ago and you used exactly the same sentence as jeffwill4you about being new to this "BB"
Did you get tired of being Mrs PN and decide to take another shot?

Thanks, that was pretty much what I was looking for. You read some posts and see things like "$1000 for a week - are you out of your mind?!" and then panic because you've never left the country and suddenly feel very naive and ill prepared. How much does a Coke actually run over there? I've seen this warning before and since that is my main vice, I'm not so sure I can make it five days without one!

88
in addition to searching here and elsewhere on restaurants, I have a long file on Paris; if you'd like to see it and your email can accept large attachments, email me at
[email protected]

No reason to panic over money, you'll be able to enjoy yourself, eat, and not go broke. :)

I have only $1,200.00 in our budget for food total for 2 people and we will be in Paris for 11 nights! (940 Euros) I think we can eat pretty good for that?