Need help Planning

Hi everyone, i am traveling to Paris for only 3 nights Aug 29- Sept 1 and i need help planning. I have a list of the things i would like to do but since i have never been there i need to know how to group them together, can anyone help??? Here are the things i would like to do and see.... (also please excuse my spelling)

Eiffel Tower

Museu de Louvre (wed night)

Notre Dame

Pere- Lachaise

Arc de Triumphe

The Catacombs

Pantheon

Champ-Elysees

French National Library

and what night would be the best night to do a river cruise on the Siene Tue, Wed, or Thr?

Thanks you for your help in advance!

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Well, Arc de Triomphe and Champs Elysées are at the same place. You can start at the Arc de Triomphe, and walk along the Champs Elysées to Place de la concorde, and then follow by the Louvre for example.

The other sites are a little far one from the other. (Catacombs to the south, Pantheon, in the center south, French National Library in the south East, Père Lachaise in the North East, and Notre Dame in the Center.

But you can do everything either using public transportation (metro) or a hop on/ hop off bus, or even a digi-guide ( tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g187147-i14-k64592… ).

If I were you, I%26#39;d download a Paris Map, and try to point every place you want to see in order to make a schedule.

However, there is a lot more to see in Paris. So don%26#39;t worry, you might discover many things during your trip.

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Pick out one or two places each day and then walk the area. Paris is such a walking city and you come across so many interesting thins and shops on your way. You might not get to do everything in one trip so you will have a reason to return. The first night is a great time to do the Seine cruise because it is a good orientation to the city sights. The dinner cruise is %26quot;Touristry%26quot; but a great intro to the city.

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I am curious to know why the French National Library is on your list. It is one of my most hated places in all Paris, terribly ugly and on an inhuman scale. But is IS a great study on bad architecture... so bad, in fact, that people have been hospitalized, employees get paid hardship wages and books are being destroyed.

Otherwise

Arc de Triomphe/Champs Elysees/Pere Lachaise

Notre Dame/Pantheon/Catacombes

Nat%26#39;l Library/Louvre/Eiffel Tower

As for the river cruise, any night will do...

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phread, I beg to differ: the BNF (French national library) is one of the few places in Paris where you can get good modern architecture. I know, all the American friends I brought there didn%26#39;t like it , because it didn%26#39;t fit their preconception of how %26quot;quaint%26quot; and %26quot;old%26quot; Paris was supposed to be, they%26#39;d rather see Paris time frozen in a kind of eternal museum/theme park for New World tourists.But I consider the BNF a stunning piece of architecture. I also use it regularly for professional purposes, and it%26#39;s a pleasant and ergonomic place to work too. Plus, they have just inaugurated Paris%26#39;s latest bridge (footbridge), the passerelle Simone de Beauvoir that links the BNF with Bercy, also an interesting piece of architecture. Underneath it, you have the new floating swimming pool, called... piscine Josephine Baker, that Le Monde, quite harshly I think, dubbed %26quot;une affligeante pataugeoire%26quot;, but that isn%26#39;t that bad looking. So Loripie, I think a stroll by the BNF neighborhood wouldn%26#39;t be a bad idea, something definitely off the beaten track...

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As far as the BNF is concerned, I%26#39;m with BOB. Probably the most beautiful modern building in Paris.

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