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Food and Drink in Paris
Paris has a wide selection of fine dining areas. When visiting Paris you have a choice of restaurants, food circuits and so on. You can also find guides that take tours to some of the best dining areas in Paris.
To consider foods, you want to learn your passions. If you enjoy pizza, then you want to find the best pizza joints in Paris. Paris also has a nice selection of chocolate outlets. If you enjoy chocolate perhaps, you would like the dishes served at Jean-Paul Hévin where some of the best chocolate packed with cheese is served. If your passions are croissants then you may want to visit the café Paris. Inside the café, you will enjoy window views of the lovely Notre-Dame. You can take your laptop to this café, since you have access to the Worldwide Net. The Champs-Elysees is near the café as well. Inside the Le Meriden hotel is the fabulous Shambala Restaurant. The establishment serves fine meals at various hours. Neighboring the restaurant is the bar.
The big deals:
Paris recently is installing WI-FI in most hotels around Paris, as well as in many public establishments. The visitors coming to Paris in time will enjoy free access to the Internet in hundreds of areas around Paris over a WI-FI connection. In the near future, you can take your laptop and enjoy accessibility to the Internet nearly anywhere on the streets of Paris. In fact, you can enjoy resting in comfortable furniture around the streets as you chat with friends and family back home on your computer. Paris is in the making of adding comfortable furniture on their streets.
Paris is on a mission. The mission is to encourage itinerants from around the world to enjoy public areas around Paris. In many areas around Paris, you will have the convenience of using WI-FI connections, yet the city has not made the top goal at this time.
How to choose pubs:
In Paris you have a wide selection of bars and pubs. If you enjoy cocktails and hippest hop areas in town then check out the Shambala. The bar is inside the beautiful Le Meriden. In the bar, you will enjoy DJ, fashionable seating, relaxing couches, and a wide array of drinks. The establishment will impress you as you enjoy the panel that glows, shedding colors of neon lights across a hot flaming environment.
If you are searching for ballroom boogie, you may want to visit the le Divan Du Monde. This sizzling spot in Paris is one of the popular concert halls around where you will enjoy music by Arabs. You have the La Fourmi Café across the street when you feel worn out from dancing.
The Best Museums in Paris
Choosing museums to visit in Paris is not an easy task. Perhaps you want to go online to find day passes, which these passes will take you to and from many of Paris’s museums. Paris has scores of museums. At the museums, you have science, arts, learning centers, military, and so on. To choose museums we can consider a few details. Do you intend to take the children to Paris with you?
How to choose children museums in Paris:
Musée de la Poupee is a children’s museum you may like. Even if you do not have children, you may enjoy the cluster of beautiful dolls on the displays. The dolls will take you back to the day when life was filled with men and women dressed in traditional attire. During certain months at this museum, Paris gives a Quel Spectacle show. The staff uses the dolls to deliver themed arts show. Inside the museum, you will enjoy fashions, dolls, textile, arts, decorative exhibits and more. Check the Internet for details on dates, times, location and more.
Opéra Bastille is not your average museum, yet you may enjoy visiting this remarkable opera house. If you enjoy ballet, you must visit the Opéra Bastille. Opéra Bastille is seated at Paris’s Place de la Bastille.
Musée du Louvre is another of Paris’s nice museums where you will enjoy Antiquities from Egypt, Roman, Etruscan, Greek, Eastern Antiques, Islamic Fine arts, décor arts, sculptures, drawings, prints, paintings, and more.
Notre-Dame de Paris ET Son Tresor is Paris’s clone towers. The building was sculpted to fit cathedral and gothic nineteenth century history of Paris. The building alone is something to see.
When visiting museums in Paris, it is wise to go online and purchase passes. The passes will take you to more than 70 popular museums in Paris. You have free passes. Some passes will take you to Centre Pompidou, Musée du Louvre, Musée de Rodin, Arc de Triomphe, Musée national Picasso, Musée d ‘Orsay, and so on.
When you purchase passes, it gives you many benefits. You have over 50 or more museums to visit. In addition, you get discounts and coupons to eat at Paris’s restaurants, shop at the department stores, or visit the beautiful Lafayette Galleries.
If you purchase passes, also you will not have to wait in long lines to purchase tickets in Paris. The notion behind tickets is to make life easier on you.
How do I find passes?
You can go online to purchase passes. Online you will find a wide array of travel sites that offer you the opportunity to purchase your tickets.
The tickets are sent to your doorstep. Once you receive your tickets, carrying them on the plane to Paris and use them to visit the many museums in Paris.
The passes are nice, since you also get free transportation with the tickets. Some areas offer to travel you on Paris’s metro buses, which are open at hours that give you the choice of visiting the museums as you choose.
How much are the tickets?
It depends on where you purchase the passes. You can find passes for as low as 69 French dollars per couple. Children passes are 19 French dollars per two. When you purchase passes you, also receive discounts at Paris Cinemas, Hard Rock Cafés, Galleries, and so forth. Some passes offer you a buy one and get the next one free at certain locations.
Ten Most Wonderful Paris Attractions
This museum mainly features things about science and technology. Most of the exhibits talk about hands-on nature. Designed by Adrien Fainsilber, it features the 5 themes – the universe, water and earth, man, communication and industry. Around 2.5 million people visit this museum every year.
5. Musee D’Orsay
This museum is not as big as the Louvre but is most loved by those who adore impressionist paintings. Around 2 million people visit it every year. It is located in a former railway station and holds a number of collection.
6. Arc De Triomphe
This is another historic landmark in Paris. It was build by Napolean in 1806 to commemorate his victories. The arc was not completed until 1836 when Louise Philippe was the ruler. People can also climb its top although the view is not as spectacular as that on top of the Eiffel Tower.
7. Notre Dame
It is one of the most must-see, spectacular and beautiful cathedrals all over the world. It is one of the city’s treasures that visitors can climb. On its north tower was where Quasimodo stood.
8. The Sorbonne and Latin Quarter
The Sorbonne University was founded in 1257. Its products include great thinkers like Simone de Beauvoir, Jean Paul Satre and Rene Descartes.
9. The Seine
A boat trip can complete the whole experience in Paris. The Seine offers a dramatic and historical scene for each bank. It is a romantic boat ride in the evening features the breathtaking water. An hour of trip will make you appreciate the city from another viewpoint.
10. Disneyland Resort Paris
The Disneyland Resort offers 2 theme parks, seven hotels and an entertainment district. It was first opened in 1992 and is 32 km from the heart of the city. It has more than 15 million visitors every year and is one of the best attractions of the city despite past controversy about earning its first profit in 1995.
There are other things that you can appreciate in Paris such as the numerous side café’s from where you can hold many wonderful memories of this famous city.