Our Practical info guides to help you plan your trip to Paris: itineraries, practical tips, and good addresses.
Paris is served by two main airports, Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle to the northeast and Orly to the south, both...
Like any major tourist destination, Paris has its share of well known scams, mostly concentrated around the...
Paris has a reputation for being an expensive city, but visiting the capital without spending a fortune is ...
For a 1 to 3 day stay, pay per trip: a Ticket Métro-Train-RER at €2.55 on a Navigo Easy card or on your sma...
Paris has turned into a genuinely bike-friendly city in recent years, with a network of protected bike lane...
The Paris Museum Pass promises simplified access to dozens of museums and monuments across the capital and ...
Paris is a compact city where most tourist neighborhoods are within 20 to 30 minutes of each other by metro...
In France, tipping is never mandatory: since a decree of 27 March 1987, the price displayed in a restaurant...
Less than an hour from Paris, the Chantilly estate packs in a château filled with art, gardens laid out by ...
It depends. There's no nationwide ban on drinking alcohol in the street in France, but Paris does apply loc...
Yes — and it's genuinely new. Since July 2025, swimming has returned to the Seine in Paris for the first ti...
No. Unlike some countries visitors might be arriving from, cannabis remains fully illegal in France — posse...
No, in the vast majority of cases. Central Paris is classed as a no-fly zone for drones, whatever the aircr...
Yes, but in a way that surprises a lot of visitors: in France, it's buying sex that's illegal, not selling ...
There isn't just one: the best time to visit mostly depends on what you're after — good weather, a tight bu...
There's no single foolproof sign: a tourist trap shows itself through a cluster of clues, not one isolated ...
It depends a lot on the attraction, and sometimes on the time of year: some monuments require a timed ticke...
No, Paris isn't a city to be afraid of at night — but like any major, heavily-visited capital, a few simple...
On the street, yes. In a public park or garden, no — since a regulatory change that took effect on 29 June ...
No, and it's expensive: around €135 in fines. The good news is that Paris has several hundred free public t...
No, not a private rooftop, and the law is clear about it: getting onto one without permission counts as hom...
A Seine river cruise is one of the easiest ways to see Paris's major landmarks from the water without walki...
Every year in April, around 50,000 runners set off from Avenue des Champs-Élysées for the Paris Marathon, a...
Unlike other capitals, Paris slows down considerably on Christmas Day: the vast majority of shops, bakeries...
