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Boiling tap water in Paris
Paris water is very hard, which means that there is a lot of particles and mineral content in the water
What you see is a buildup of minerals and limescale, this is destined to happen when you boil ...
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Which Paris metro station to alight for CDG international airport?
The Charles de Gaulle airport (which locals call “Roissy”) is large. It has three terminals and two suburban train (RER) stations.
As the signs in the trains tell you, as well as the automated ...
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How dangerous is it near Chateau Rouge?
A few things to consider:
Broadly speaking, the whole north-east of Paris is very dense, poorer and more diverse than the south and the west and that's enough to make people feel unsafe or give it a ...
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Filter Airbnb rooms for Eiffel tower view
I cannot guarantee that it will always be accurate or exhaustive, but using a generic search engine and restricting results to airbnb.com seems to yield promising results. The link points to Google ...
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How to purchase multiple tickets in the Île-de-France Mobilités app for public transport in Paris
You cannot do this.
As the General Terms and Conditions state:
4.3. Il est impossible de valider plusieurs tickets t+ d’un même support sans contact pour permettre le voyage de plusieurs
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Paris Navigo Easy pass for public transport
There are two different concepts at play here: validation, and tickets.
You have to validate:
Any time you enter the metro network (by going through a turnstile)
Any time you enter or exit the RER ...
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Who qualifies for free admission to the Louvre?
Free admission to the Louvre is not based on student status but on age.
People residing in the EU can enter free if they are less than 26. For others it’s up to 18.
If you are between 18 and 26 you ...
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Chateaux of Loire valley for one-day trip from Paris
In addition to the castles listed in the question linked, you can also visit the burial site of Leonardo da Vinci (sadly the grave itself is closed to access for works until Spring 2024), le château d'...
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Night buses in Paris
The general rule, in daytime, is that a single “t+” ticket is valid for either:
RER within Paris and (for now) any Metro station, including transfers between them;
Bus and tramway lines anywhere in ...
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Duty-free shopping Paris Charles de Gaulle
You won't be able to do DF shopping, for 2 reasons. One is that you won't be able to access 2E, since your flight is from 2D. These two terminals are segregated. And should you even be able to access ...
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Filter Airbnb rooms for Eiffel tower view
You can use the "Amazing views" feature search (in the top bar, not in the filters) to eliminate all that don't have a view at all.
You definitely won't have only rooms with a view on the ...
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What is the metro broadcast in the Paris metro for a suspicious package?
The key word is 'colis suspect' (which is the translation of your question), but as stated by Frank, it would rarely be announced by the driver, but instead will be written on the station's screens, ...
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Which Paris metro station to alight for CDG international airport?
RER B stations at Paris-CDG airport:
Terminals 1 and 3: "Aéroport Charles de Gaulle 1" station
• Terminal 1 is available by the free CDGVAL rail shuttle (journey time: 6 minutes).
• Terminal ...
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Will my Navigo Pass be replenishable next year?
A Navigo pass (the phyiscal card) is valid for 10 years. This applies to all the types: Navigo Easy (transferable, can be loaded with single-trip tickets and day passes), Navigo Découverte (personal, ...
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Paris Gare du Nord to Gare Montparnasse, by public transport but without lots of walking?
It doesn't help this exact question, but it might help somebody else reading this as part of planning a trip - in the current timetable there are a few direct TGVs from Lille-Europe station to ...
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Boiling tap water in Paris
In the accommodation given to me, I was told I can drink tap water.
Tap water is France's most controlled aliment. You can check its parameters on an interactive map (which, in the French tradition, ...
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Boiling tap water in Paris
As already answered, this is hard water mineral deposits. Perfectly normal in many areas. While you encountered this first in your travels, in some areas you have soft water and hard water in the same ...
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Can Palace of Versailles be done on my last day in Paris
It's definitely doable but I would not recommend it.
To be safe you will have to arrive 40mn-1h before your bus. Versailles to Bercy bus station takes around 1h30 in public transport. so you will stop ...
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Paris Navigo Easy pass for public transport
Or at every metro or bus I take I must scan my Navigo pass ?
This, you must validate your card if you change between transport modes (Metro ↔ RER, Metro ↔ Bus/Tram)
For metros, it's easy, you will be ...
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Will my Navigo Pass be replenishable next year?
You can definitely keep the card and reuse it much later. I’m not sure if there’s any guarantee of how long the card will be usable, but unless there’s an incompatible technology change there’s no ...
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Duty-free shopping Paris Charles de Gaulle
I can’t swear it, but I don’t think this is possible.
Generally, they won’t let you enter a terminal which doesn’t match your departing flight.
Even if they did in some cases, here you want to access ...
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What is the metro broadcast in the Paris metro for a suspicious package?
If the announcement was only made in French, it means it was made by the metro driver. They have the discretion on the exact phrasing of the announcement, so we can’t guess it. Your best bet is to ...
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Does a Bangladeshi citizen need a transit visa for a short layover in France?
If you are going to Portugal, I assume you have a Schengen visa. Which means you don't need anything else: you will enter the Schengen area in CDG, pass through passport control there, and transfer to ...
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Chateaux of Loire valley for one-day trip from Paris
If you would like to see several chateaux, the logistics of doing it all by public transport in a day might be challenging particularly as many are outside of town centres (although some like Blois ...
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Paris Gare du Nord to Gare Montparnasse, by public transport but without lots of walking?
A little trick usable only from Nord to Montparnasse : take line 4, but don't get off at Montparnasse, get off at Raspail. Line 6 to Etoile is at same level, avoiding two flights of stairs. It reduces ...
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What ticket option should I pick for a train journey from Paris to Meaux?
No, a t+ ticket is valid only for:
One trip on the metro (for now, to any place on the Metro network, but this will soon change)
One trip on the RER in Zone 1 only
One trip combining any of the above
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What is the metro broadcast in the Paris metro for a suspicious package?
The term is "colis suspect" (koh-lee sus-pay) or "colis abandonné", (koh-lee aban-donnay). However, you should be aware that this sort of announcement has somewhat become of a meme ...
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Are major station services counter like Place de Clichy open till late evening to buy Navigo pass?
Most stations are staffed during all hours of service. (Note that not all entrances connect to the staffed office.)
You should be able to find the hours for a particular station, as there are some ...
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How dangerous is it near Chateau Rouge?
It is more likely to get pickpocketted or bag/phone snatched in Chateau Rouge than in the average Paris district. That's by far the main risk. I find the area to be a rather fun place otherwise.
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Are there any public database or map that keeps track of reported bed bug infestation in France?
I found a report Consultations liées aux punaises de lit
en médecine générale en France métropolitaine, période 2019‐2020 that contains some statistics on bed bug infestations in France:
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