we are coming from London to Paris and our hotel is in Asnieres on bis Rue du Chateau.Any help on how to get there? Thank you for any assistance..........
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Probably best to take a taxi from Gare du Nord, the station that Eurostar arrives at, as your hotel is about half a mile from the nearest Métro station (Gabriel Péri, line 13) and only a little closer to the rail station of Asnières-sur-Seine.
I hope you realise that your hotel is actually outside the city of Paris, in the suburb of Asnières-sur-Seine, about 5 miles from Notre Dame and 4 miles from Gare du Nord. It is presumably Hotel Wilson at 10 bis Rue du Château. (The %26quot;bis%26quot; means that it%26#39;s next door to #10, the French way of saying %26quot;10a%26quot;.)
Do you have a particular reason for staying so far out? It%26#39;s not really very convenient for a short tourist visit to Paris, and there are no attractions that I know of in Asnières.
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Yes, you are right about the hotel, it seemed to be very good , the reviews were excellent and the distance from transportaton was somewhat minimized. I am not thriled to find we must walk a half a mile to get to the hotel as my hussband is an amputee,with a prothesis. There must be a taxi or other mode of transportation,hopefully. Thank you for the information,we will work out something, I%26#39;m sure. Everything cannot be perfect all the time, you just work around it and be happy for the good things, like getting to go to Paris!!
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If your husband is an amputee, can you not change your hotel? To take a taxi from Asnières to Paris will probably cost 40-50 Euros per ride. The metro is very disabled-unfriendly with many stairs and corridors.
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Having checked the RATP (Paris transport authority) website for their recommendations, the nearest station is the SNCF (French Railways) station at Asnières-sur-Seine, which they say is 8 minutes%26#39; walk from the hotel. There is a train every 15 minutes to the terminus at Saint-Lazare, from where you would need to take a bus or Métro to wherever you were heading.
Your husband might find the buses easier than the Métro. I assume he can cope with some walking and some steps, but Métro stations often have at least 45 steps between platform and street, with only a few having escalators (and very few with down escalators).
But if you can switch to a more conveniently located hotel in an area where there are plenty of pleasant cafés and restaurants around (which is not the case in Asnières), I recommend that you do so.
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I want to thank you both very much for your good advice and your effort to help us. Very kind, you are. My husband is an amputee, but has a prothesis that enables him to walk and climb stairs quite well, but not in great excess. I will look for another hotel closer to the city. Any suggestions?We are not wealthy, and there are three of us, my husband, myself and my 24 yr. old daughter. Thanks again to both gentlemen..............
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I want to thank you both very much for your good advice and your effort to help us. Very kind, you are. My husband is an amputee, but has a prothesis that enables him to walk and climb stairs quite well, but not in great excess. I will look for another hotel closer to the city. Any suggestions?We are not wealthy, and there are three of us, my husband, myself and my 24 yr. old daughter. Thanks again to both gentlemen..............
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Hello! I%26#39;m from San Antonio also, going to Paris at the end of May. Regarding your hotel, we will be staying at Hotel Minerve which is in the Latin Quarter in Paris, excellent safe location and very close to transportation. It is not expensive, and was listed as a true Paris treasure in my Frommer%26#39;s %26quot;Paris for Dummies%26quot; book :-)
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