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So I'm being dragged against my will to Paris next week (to meet my in-laws). Want to keep expenditure to the absolute minimum as we want to save cash to go on a proper holiday afterwards!
Any suggestions for low/no-cost stuff to do in Paris?
The Louvre has a free day once a month - I think it is the first Sunday so it might fit...
Watch the office girls coming out of the Metro every evening, looking is normally free.
Municipal sewer tours.....
IMHO Paris isn't as expensive as a tourist as you might expect. The big sights (Eiffel Tower etc) charge for entry, but many of the smaller sights don't.
If you enjoyed "the Da-Vinci Code" why not follow the route the chareters took through the city? St Sulpice is a pretty amazing sight with the roseline running through it.
AGree with just sitting somehwere & watching the girls go by - got a feeling many of them expect it and get offended if they don't get looked at!
I've almost never paid for stuff in Paris beyond visiting galleries (wife is a big art buff). I can't be bothered going UP the Eiffel tower when the view is better (and cheaper) from Montparnasse. You can walk to Sacre Coeur and take a look around there. Go visit Galleries Lafayette and keep the wife from buying stuff. Go to Pere Lachaise
Generally I've done the touristy stuff in Paris so when we go, we tend to wander around in areas we've not been to before and just "hang out".
go to the [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A8re_Lachaise_Cemetery ]dead centre of the city[/url] - free and quite intriguing
Rent a velibe.
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The Louvre has a free day once a month - I think it is the first Sunday so it might fit
Also has reduced price entry later in the day doesn't it?
I was in Paris two weeks ago for a two-day visit. Given that it's a very easy city to walk around to get to places (particularly if the weather is nice, which it was for us), I managed to cram in this lot for under 40 euros:
Walk the steps to the second tier of the Eiffle: 5 euros (bargain!)
Notre Damn (free to go in, but 12 euros to go up the bell tower);
Montmatre (free to climb the hill but don't know if you have to pay for the Sacre Couer);
Walk around the Louvre and admire the architecture and the Pyramid (free);
Lie on a patch of grass on/near the Champs Elysee and people-watch (free);
Hire a bike and ride anywhere you want like ride the Champs Elysee and live the TdF (10 euros and great fun)
Get an open top bus ride and bus-hop (30 euros +; I didn't do this but it's an option);
Catacombs (again, didn't go but it was recommended).
Bump for the midweek/daytime crowd!
Seriously, just get a guide book and walk round. There's loads of gardens & historical spots to see for nowt or v.cheap. Metro if it's raining 🙂
It's really, really easy to get round in Parreee.
when i stayed in paris (long, long time ago) versailles was cheap/free on sundays, and that was the day they turned all the fountains on
top floor of the tour montparnasse, not expemsive, awesome views
eat at pocardi's on one of the grand boulevards (haussmann?). used to be ok food in spectacular surroundings at very reasonable price
musee de l'armee, napolean's willy is in a jar, the rest of him is in a sarcophagus
..all this is nearly 30 years old (apart from naspolean's willy, it's even older) so not to be taken as gospel
Visit the Pantheon above the Left Bank. Incredible building inside and out, go tip your hat to Voltaire and Rousseau in the crypt.
Was there in August, Paris is great but super expensive.....way more than London. The Metro is cheap but frankly horrible, and smells of wee.
picnic on the pedestrian footbridge; cant remeber the name of it though....