A trip to Paris: the cost, the route. Trip to Paris at Disneyland. Self-trip to Paris

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T. Vorontsova

Indeed, reading and talking about Paris is an ungrateful occupation! Well, how can you tell the words about the city, praised Poets and writers, ancient and modern, romantic and pragmatic? You can read all the books about it, but only a trip to Paris will help you understand what kind of city it is, and fall in love with you for it for the rest of your life.

Independently or "under supervision"?

You can go on a trip to Paris, first of all, by buying a tour in a travel agency. This option is suitable for novice travelers, as well as for those who are very busy and can not organize a trip to Paris on their own. Those who already have the experience of wandering and are not afraid to make decisions, make such an independent tour will not be difficult, and there are much more advantages for such a trip compared to a tour package tour from a tour operator.

What are the advantages? We list the following points:

1. You decide when, on what type of transport you will go or fly.

2. Nothing restricts, except for the date of the visa, you on the terms of stay in France.

3. You are free to choose where you will live: in a hostel, hotel or rent an apartment.

4. With the open Schengen multiview, you can go for a few days, for example, to Italy or Spain.

5. By self-registration of all documents, booking tickets and housing, you can several times reduce the cost of travel. For example, a travel agency proposes to spend a romantic weekend together in Paris for 77,000 rubles. This amount includes accommodation in a 4-star hotel and flight. Additional costs for the visa, medical insurance and aviation fuel charge will be about 10 000 rubles. Thus, a romantic weekend in the French capital will cost 87,000 rubles for one person. Experienced travelers have calculated that if you independently issue a visa, choose cheaper tickets (flights with a transfer or in the early morning) and a lesser star hotel, you can save from 9 000 to 20 000 rubles per person. Is it impressive?

On the positive things that will bring an independent trip to Paris , talked about, now about what actions It is necessary to undertake that everything goes as planned, and the journey left only beautiful memories and emotions.

When is it better to go?

At any time of year, the French capital will be able to surprise you, enchant and fall in love with you. However, if the trip to Paris is organized by you yourself, and you want to save money, then it's better to go on your way after the New Year and until the middle of March or at the end of September and be in time for Christmas. At this time in the French capital, "low" season, which involves a fall in prices for air travel and hotel rooms.

Collecting documents

Before you book tickets and book a hotel, you need to find out which official papers you need to collect to obtain a visa, check the validity of your foreign passport. Detailed information on which documents are needed, where and how to apply for a French visa, can be found on the website of the Embassy. The requirements for the documents are the same as for issuing a Schengen visa to any country: air tickets or a reservation, a valid foreign passport with a 3-month validity period and three mandatory blank pages, documents confirming financial possibilities (a certificate from a job or an extract from a bank account) . Mandatory medical insurance and hotel booking confirmation are required. Now let's talk about everything in order.

Booking accommodation

Before proceeding to this stage, it does not matter whether you plan a trip to the weekend in Paris or for a whole month, decide in which district of this big city you would like to live. Prices for accommodation in the French capital are very different: from 15 euros per bed in a hostel in a suburban area to very large sums in elite hotels.

If you plan to walk a lot, and also to visit the suburbs of Paris, then you should consider the options for hotels located near the East or Lyons train stations. For example, hotels Helvetia or Hôtel de l'Aveyron, located in the area of the Gare de Lyon, will cost around 80 euros per night.

Despite the rather low prices, it is not necessary to book hotels located in the rather criminal Parisian district of Gare du Nord, near the North and West stations.

In the event that a trip to Paris to Disneyland is planned, then better to focus on the hotels near this huge entertainment park. The cost of rooms in such hotels, located within walking distance, starts from 100-110 euros.

Where and how is the insurance issued?

In the list of documents required to obtain a visa to France, a medical insurance policy for foreign trips must be indicated. Such a policy is quite easy to buy, and in the French Embassy there is a list of insurance companies that have consular accreditation.

If you plan a trip to Paris for two, you can buy it either in the representation of the insurance operator, or use the web resources of known or accredited French Consulate insurance companies and apply for an online policy.

The received insurance policy should be kept at all times. In addition, before the trip, it should be scanned and stored in your e-mail box, so that in case of force majeure it is easy to access it.

How to get to Paris?

Today, the capital of France can be reached by bus or train, which is rather long and tedious, or to fly to Paris by plane. Regardless of which mode of travel will be chosen, this is the most expensive stage of the forthcoming journey. For most tourists, a trip to Paris begins with air travel.

We will not dwell on how to buy a bus tour across Europe with a visit to France and get to Paris by train. By air, although more expensive, but much faster. In advance, choose the departure date and book a ticket for one of the regular flights. Direct and connecting (with one change) flights to Paris are from many Russian cities, primarily from Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as from Rostov-on-Don, Tyumen and many others.

To save some money on excursions and other pleasant entertainment, when an independent trip to Paris is organized, it is better to buy tickets both there and back. The final cost of travel documents will be lower.

When booking and booking tickets, pay attention to the airport of arrival. It is important that he was in the city, since public transport in Paris is not cheap. The Charles de Gaulle International Airport is most conveniently located.

Transport of Paris

An independent trip to Paris, most likely, will not do without moving around the city. Of course, you can rent Car or take a taxi, but that and the other options are quite expensive. And, moreover, the public transport system in the French capital is very well developed. For buses, trams and metro there are the same type of tickets, which are divided only by the number of uses. You can buy them both at the ticket office and the driver. The latter option will be somewhat more expensive.

According to the Parisians themselves, the most convenient metropolitan transport is the metro, which is connected to the network of commuter trains RER. On the subway scheme they are marked with letters from A to E.

Another convenient mode for travelers is buses. In Paris, besides the usual urban routes, there are special tourist that pass through the historic part of the city and cover most of the sights.

If you have a budget trip to Paris, the cost of travel on these tourist buses will please - it is one of the cheapest! You can save on one-time tickets: for example, one ticket for the trip costs 1.70 €, but the set of 10 will cost only 13.70 €.

The tram service in the capital of France is not very developed - only four lines. And only tram number 3 runs around the city, all the others serve the suburbs.

Where to go and what to see?

For someone who has dreamed of traveling to Paris most of the time, this is not a question: the Champs Elysees and the Arc de Triomphe, the Notre Dame Cathedral and the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre and Versailles, Fontainebleau and Montmartre. Everyone has their own list of attractions!

If you want to see everything at once, but it's difficult to determine the order, then you can use the services of various travel agencies and Russian-speaking guides.

Rest with children in Paris Disneyland

For those who travel with children, a trip to Paris at Disneyland will give a fairy tale to children, and adults for some Time to feel like children. Before you go there, be sure to explore the attractions and their location, and do not forget to buy at least five days of tickets on the Internet. Such foresight will help you save up to 30 euros per person.

In general, the price of tickets to the entertainment park is different, and they can cost from 55 € to 145 €. True, it should be noted that their validity is from 6 months to a year.

If there is a desire to further reduce the cost of a trip to Disneyland Paris, then it is better to schedule it for the end of September - mid-December, and also book a hotel in advance from this entertainment center. In the event that you live in the center, then you have to spend time and money on the road, since Disneyland is located in a small suburb of Paris - Marne-la-Vallee, located 35 kilometers from the capital.

So, if you go to Disneyland Paris on your own, you will have to spend 250-300 € for flight, 75-100 € - for the night at the hotel, 55 € - for the cheapest ticket to the park. The result looks like 400-450 € without issuing a visa and insurance. The price may increase slightly, but only because of the location of the hotel, as far as the fare when staying away from Disneyland will have to pay. Tour operators offer to pay for such a holiday from 700 € excluding the cost of a visa, medical insurance and various additional fees.

It's worth visiting Paris at least once in your life to appreciate its romantic atmosphere of narrow streets, the beauty of the Seine and its bridges, to understand all the writers, artists and poets who sang this beautiful city. And how much to pay for all this is up to you!