What is the most efficient way to travel around Paris?
 

What would be the most reliable/ efficient way to travel around the city? I'm trying to weigh in cost, time it take sto get from one location to another and anything else that I'm forgeting :)!!!!

adpiLdy

On foot and by métro and bus. It's not a big city.

Hi adp,

Metro and bus maps and directions between any two points in the city are at www.ratp.fr.

www.mappy.com and www.viamichelin.com have good city maps that show the metro stops.

Paris is a very good city for walking.

((I))

walking for sure, if you're talking about Paris proper.

It would take about two hours to walk from one side of "Paris proper" (the central zone) to the other. If you don't have the time and energy to walk all day, you probably could make good use of a transport pass. Here are some choices:

http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...p;tid=34630342

We buy a Carte Orange & take the busses everywhere - they're above gound and you can see things while you go from A to B - can't do that when you use the metro (except the short haul that passes the Eiffel tower. Get map#2 at the metro station to determine the bus pick-up & drop off locations.

Stu Dudley

Short distances - foot. Longer - Metro.

As you might deduce from above posts, "it depends". Plan on a combination of several modes.

It depends on where you are, where you want to go, the time of day and the weather.

Can somebody do a quick power point chart?

On foot. But then I stick to the central parts of the city.

PowerPoint, hell - it's an exercise in linear programming ;)

Robes, is there a small hand-held device that would sense where you are and give you the quickest and easiest travel options, to include directions, based on destination, temperature, cloud conditions, humidity, winds, time of day, traffic and the physical condition of the traveler?

Perhaps we can partner in a little business venture?

In a rickshaw pulled by degas and Robespierre????

degas, that's not totally far-fetched. Google already offers a cell phone service that will locate nearby services, and if the <b>nanika.net/metro</b> program were made GPS-aware, it could easily compute the optimum route from whereever you are to point B (barometric pressure and phase of the moon notwithstanding).

If I had wings, I would fly. But we usually walk for miles and miles in Paris with the occasional metro and finally, this last trip, the bus!

IN A HURRY, NO TIME TO WASTE:
The Metro - Don't forget to calculate walking time to and from.

RELAXED AND PREPARED TO SEE MORE OF PARIS EN-ROUTE:
The bus service.

TIRED AND FOOTSORE:
A taxi.

Robes, I think the concept has promise.

When time is of the essence, and you just don't want to waste time, a taxi can sometimes be a godsend. 2 weeks ago when we arrived there was a Metro strike, so we took taxis all day, got used to it, and for the first time in 30 years, did not set foot in the Metro, all day by foot, until we couldn't walk anymore, then taxi. You would be amazed how inexpensive overall it really is.