1st of May me and my wife took a weekend-trip to Paris in order to refresh things and take a break from the grind that we are slaving away on a daily basis. We left our baby-daugther at home with her aunts and nanny and took Transavia-airlines to Paris-Orly airport. First time that I flew with Transavia, they are you know one of the cheaper options when you want to fly to Paris. Turkish Airlines and the other corporate bitches were way tooo expensive, delivering a shitty service and ripping the people off of their hard-earned cash with ultra-expensive tickets but hey the lounge in Istanbul is great but always overcrowded! Anyways, that being sad I didn't know much about Transavia. And I don't have anything to complain about them other than they changed the flight time but informing me on time with mail and sms. The plane itself was nice with enough room for your legs and the staff was friendly. You can buy some sandwich or coke on board and prices are expensive of course. This was my second time in Paris and I knew how pricey them french fries can be. Especially when you take a taxi you might as well bring your salary-check with you. So I ordered a taxi with we-cab, which was reasonably priced compared to a normal taxi. You can make your reservation online and you share your cab with others. You receive a text message on your mobile phone informing you what gate they are going to pick you up and what time. Worked quite well.
I had made a reservation at the Hotel Auteil Tour Eiffel, which is a 4 star hotel near the famous Eiffel tower. It is basically a 10 minutes walk away and the room was nice, clean and big enough. In Paris you mostly face the problem that hotel rooms are tiny and expensive but we paid 240 EUR for two nights which is okay I guess. So, everthing looked perfect for this stay but of course, there was one factor that ruined the first day. It was raining cats and dogs when we arrived. But we didn't mind. Determined to make the most of our stay we put on our coats and went to see the Eiffel tour thinking that we would be the only ones strolling under the rain. When we arrived at the Eiffel tower the place was packed. There was a cue so long that we'd wait at least an hour to get an entrance ticket. So we cued up starting waiting when the sign said 'upper level is closed due to fucking tourists who climbed the effin tower on a rainy day. Well that wasn"t exactly what it said but it was what I thought. So we decided to come back the next morning. We were determined to make that climb. Next day we woke up, had our breakfast near a cafe and at 09.30 in the morning we arrived at the tower just to see that there were more people waiting in cue than yesterday. What the fuck? So, we just said screw the Eiffel tower. We went to the parks, to the Louvre (where the cue was like a mile long and we didn"t get to see the freaking Mona Lisa), we took a ride with the tourist-buses and it was nice. Paris is a beautiful city but also an expensive one. We had some fine dinner in a small restaurant, drank too much wine, tasted the delicious cheese. So was it expensive for a 2-day trip? yes, of course since you`re not getting away without going on a shopping spree at the Champs-Elysees but it was worth it and I´m glad we did it.
I had made a reservation at the Hotel Auteil Tour Eiffel, which is a 4 star hotel near the famous Eiffel tower. It is basically a 10 minutes walk away and the room was nice, clean and big enough. In Paris you mostly face the problem that hotel rooms are tiny and expensive but we paid 240 EUR for two nights which is okay I guess. So, everthing looked perfect for this stay but of course, there was one factor that ruined the first day. It was raining cats and dogs when we arrived. But we didn't mind. Determined to make the most of our stay we put on our coats and went to see the Eiffel tour thinking that we would be the only ones strolling under the rain. When we arrived at the Eiffel tower the place was packed. There was a cue so long that we'd wait at least an hour to get an entrance ticket. So we cued up starting waiting when the sign said 'upper level is closed due to fucking tourists who climbed the effin tower on a rainy day. Well that wasn"t exactly what it said but it was what I thought. So we decided to come back the next morning. We were determined to make that climb. Next day we woke up, had our breakfast near a cafe and at 09.30 in the morning we arrived at the tower just to see that there were more people waiting in cue than yesterday. What the fuck? So, we just said screw the Eiffel tower. We went to the parks, to the Louvre (where the cue was like a mile long and we didn"t get to see the freaking Mona Lisa), we took a ride with the tourist-buses and it was nice. Paris is a beautiful city but also an expensive one. We had some fine dinner in a small restaurant, drank too much wine, tasted the delicious cheese. So was it expensive for a 2-day trip? yes, of course since you`re not getting away without going on a shopping spree at the Champs-Elysees but it was worth it and I´m glad we did it.
