TO / FROM THE AIRPORT
Charles de Gaulle or Orly
Line B stops at Gare du Nord, Châtelet les Halles and Saint-Michel. It takes a little more than half and hour and costs around 9 Euros. The best way to get to the center.
GETTING AROUND IN PARIS
The Metro is fantastic! The trains are fast and frequent and there are stops at every other street corner, it seems. The only problem is that it closes between around 1 A.M. – 6 A.M. The RER trains that go the suburbs and the airports also cross Paris and stop at some of the bigger metro stops. If you are going from one place to another within Paris where the RER stops, choose that option, since it is even faster than the metro.
Only take the bus if you have plenty of time and you find it charming to wait forever or be stuck in traffic without the running meter of a taxicab.
Taxies can be very hard to get. They are not supposed to stop in the street within a certain distance from a taxi stop. But they will do it, if they get a chance to and are not too busy – which is rare. On weekends and late at night, it can become a real nightmare to find a taxi, and the lines at the taxi stops can be frighteningly long.
By Katrine Salomon