Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Good Market (which also means 'bargain' in French) is the Left Bank's chic one-
stop shop.
Information
Paris Convention & Visitors Bureau
(
www.parisinfo.com
; 25-27 rue des Pyramides, 1er;
Pyramides; 9am-7pm Jun-Oct, 10am-7pm Mon-Sat & 11am-7pm Sun Nov-May)
Main tourist
office with a clutch of smaller centres elsewhere in the city.
Getting There & Away
Air
and smaller of Paris' two major airports, 18km south of the city.
Aéroport Roissy Charles de Gaulle
(CDG; 39 50, 01 70 36 39 50;
www.aeroportsdeparis.fr
)
Three terminal complexes - Aérogare 1, 2 and 3 - 30km
northeast of Paris in the suburb of Roissy.
charter companies and budget airlines, 80km north of Paris.
Train
Spain and Portugal; Loire Valley and non-TGV trains to southwestern France (eg Bordeaux
and Basque Country).
Switzerland (Basel, Lucerne, Zurich), southern Germany (Frankfurt, Munich) and points fur-
ther east; regular and TGV Est trains to areas of France east of Paris (Champagne, Alsace
and Lorraine).
Bern, Geneva, Lausanne), Italy and points beyond; regular and TGV Sud-Est and TGV Midi-
Méditerranée trains to areas southeast of Paris, including Dijon, Lyon, Provence, the Côte
d'Azur and the Alps.
envenüe)
Brittany and places en route from Paris (eg Chartres, Angers, Nantes); TGV At-
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