So I've finally got around to uploading this blog post along with a little video to go along of this. It's all to do with everything we got up to in Paris and things I recommend to do if anyone is thinking of visiting or has planned a trip to Paris. I am going to try to make this a more regular thing whenever I do travel to new places to give you all a little review from these places.
So firstly, one thing we did take a full day up doing here was DISNEYLAND PARIS! Yes, I may have turned 22, but does that stop me going along to Disney with all the 3 year olds.. ermm, definitely not :) So if you are soon travelling to Paris and you've got a few days there, I absolutely recommend that you do go to Disney. We brought tickets for this before we went and got the 2-for-1 park tickets at a massive discounted price. This basically gets you into the main park and then the Walt Disney Studios (which is really really good if your a little older like myself) and we also got a cute little river cruise included in this price. I will link details of this below for you guys.
Secondly, hotels.. if your anything like I was and have never travelled to Paris and literally have no idea about whereabouts to stay and where is good, then I hope this little section helps.
We stayed by Pigalle, which when you look on Google Maps in near 9th Arr and is sort of North Paris. We found this an amazing spot to stay as it was a little cheaper than the central part of Paris, but literally took about 10 minutes to get anywhere by using the Metro so it was so easy to get everywhere from here. The hotel we stayed in was called Libertel Montmartre Opera, which we stayed up on the sixth floor off and was pretty smallish but was clean, quiet and had an amazing view of the Effiel Tower from (and the cute little french windows).
Other little trips that we did whilst over in Paris was off course the Effiel Tower Sumit, which takes you to the very top of the Effiel Tower. So this was amazing, of course, as you can imagine, however, if I was ever to do this again I would only go to the first tier rather than to the very top. Reason for this is pretty simply, the queues for this were huge! And, once your that high anyway, you can still see the same amount from no matter where you are to be honest. You can also get much better photos from the first few tiers rather than the top as there is a huge cage around you at the top, whereas there isn't one at the lower tiers.
Another little top tip for anyone who is from Europe and under 25, take your Passport with you everywhere! We paid only like €17 for which is like less than £15 which is amazing considering we chose the dearest ticket for the Effiel Tower. We also got free access into the Lourve, which is like the famous museum over in Paris.. not something I was huge on to be honest and probably wouldn't look to pay to go in, but if old paintings and statues is your thing then go for it!
As for transport, I think I probably spent like a week of my life trying to find cheap flights to Paris. I do believe it can be done, but let me say this, trying to book 3 weeks before after searching every single website I think there possibly is, is hopeless! I could only find them at like £400 each way (yes, ridiculous!).. so I ended up getting a really good deal on the Eurostar with such better times than the flights were offering. Anyone wishing to travel to France or Belgium, I 100% recommend using the Eurostar, so much easier to use than airports, and I literally slept the whole journey on my way to Paris which I know I couldn't do on a flight.
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