How to spend my free day in PARIS?

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Hey all, would any of you seasoned Parisians care to recommend me something I may not have thought of, that you wouldn't miss for Paris?

I have a whole day free I've not filled. Was debating just going for a stroll around.

So far I've done or have booked:
Eiffel tower
Walked around Notre dame
Sainte chappelle and the neighbouring ex prison
The gallery near the Eiffel tower (the nautical/oceans one).
A ghost tour
A river cruise
A classical concert
A tour of the opera house.
And a day trip to Versailles.

I considered the marble arch but I'm not sure if I care enough? I'm not going to bother with shopping places. I don't need another museum tbh but did debate the l'oreange but it's booked up I think.

But Is the orsay worth seeing?

What about the pantheon?

I don't fancy going somewhere i'll be crammed in.

Catacombs?

The sacre ceor?

I'm massacring these names as I'm too tired to Google haha.

Anyways, any recommendations?

Something... different might be good.

Thanks :)

I'd go with the musée d'Orsay and/or Monet's waterlilies. I think I got a ticket that converted both for not much more than a ticket that covered one. But I'm a sucker for impressionist art and post impressionism etc so they're just fabulous to me.

(alternatively my parents visited Versailles and it was so massive they could have spent two days there).

I would just walk around and see where the day took me. Musee D’orsay is excellent but always rammed so unless you got there first thing I’d give it a miss and just walk/cafe/walk/lunch etc etc.

See I love the old school art like monet but then again I feel I always go to galleries so maybe I should try something else. I think I'll look into tickets though. Might have a free few hours another day if not then :)

Yeah i might just do that. Need to find somewhere nice to walk and maybe have a picnic. I think somewhere different to Notre dame direction though as I've been about there a bit.

We were just there and had an extra day, and having done most of the museums/cultural attractions over the last few years, wanted to do something we'd never done before. We ended up walking the St Martin's Canal up to Parc des Buttes Chaumont (19th) and then over to Belleville, had a fantastic lunch at a tiny place in Belleville chinatown and then walked back to the hotel (in the 7th, stopping for a glass of wine and a crepe in a cafe on the way back).

It was artier and grittier than the more touristy places, but a lovely day and we ended up walking almost 17km, so felt we earned our meals 😁

I would either just wander or visit the catacombs, there is so much to see in Paris without actually going anywhere specific.

I love Paris. And for me theres nothing better to do than just wander. Pop into some shops, have a lovely long lunch, have coffee in a pavement cafev watching the world go by, walk by the seine, meander round a park. I could spend a month in Paris doing nothing at all :)

Rodin sculpture garden
Montmartre
One of the cemeteries
Food market

What's the weather like? Do you like walking and eating? I like wandering near the river, over Ile St Louis, around the Marais and checking out the shops near there - just browsing the cool stuff. BHV is epic. Musee Carnavalet is lovely, small museum of the history of Paris nearby.

I think musee d"orsay is worth a visit but sounds like you may be at capacity for art by now. Maybe next time?

I do like the pompidou and quai branly for slightly less traditional museums.

I always go here too, a little church with cheap classical concerts, candlelit..normally students playing. Four seasons is on tomorrow:

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Enjoy, I love Paris, its always first on my list for a holiday on my own

Funnily enough I was going to recommend the exact same agenda as well!! Did this on my honeymoon, was fab.

That park itself looks beautiful. Did you go through it at all?

Or you @jjeoreo ?

I might hop on an underground over and have a picnic in the park :)

I feel the part that's been missing from the trip is nature.

I wonder how long it takes to saunter around it.
Would probably be beautiful at sunset.

And great minds think alike jjero I have a classical concert at a church booked already :)

I like wandering around up and down the banks.

always have a walk around notre dame and the memorial to the deportation

and I always go up the arc de triomphe. I love the view from there!!

I love sitting in the Tuilleries with a good coffee. A bit of a snooze in the sun on a chair. Get more coffee and a little mooch through the streets. Grab an ice cream and a fancy patisserie. The day will fly.

One word of warning about Monet’s garden. It’s is HEAVING with American tourists. Either go first thing and hot foot it to the bridge, or go in the last 1.5 hours as the tours have left by then.

If the weather’s decent, I recommend Père Lachaise cemetery.

Rodin museum is lovely! And you can sit in the gardens! My favourites place, well one of my favourite places in Paris.

I agree with a pp about the Marais and especially Musée Carnavalet, which has a gorgeous courtyard with sometimes a popup cafe in it; Musée Picasso; the Place des Vosges; and just a lot of wandering about, people-watching, shopping and having coffee/lunch/drinks. The Marais is historical, chichi and very walkable, with great shops and cafes. Lots of traditional Jewish street food, salad bars, vegetarian restaurants (a big thing in Paris right now!), and for traditional meat-oriented French food, I really recommend a lovely little bistro called Camille, just along the Rue des Francs-Bourgeois from the Musée Carnavalet.

Also agree about the Ile St Louis, which is lovely, scenic and very quiet - “old money” Paris, but quaint and not flashy. A lovely day’s itinerary would be to start at the Ile St Louis, and have some ice cream at Berthillon, then walk across the Seine to the Marais for lunch, window shopping and afternoon museums, followed by cocktails and dinner. Ah, my favourite kind of trip!

And if you want something a little different, try going across from the Ile St Louis to the other bank of the Seine, and visiting the Institut du Monde Arabe, a really interesting modern building, with automatic window shutters designed to look like ancient Islamic architecture. From there you can walk along through the Quartier Latin to the Musée Cluny which houses some beautiful and famous medieval tapestries. All that district has lovely cafes and quaint architecture too — you can’t go wrong in Paris to be honest!

For nature there's also Jardin des Plantes and Parc Bercy. Parc Floral is a bit further away from the centre, or take a day trip to Giverny (if you're going after 1st April)

Ahem ….. the Louvre (aka best art gallery in the world).

I ruled the Louvre out as I figure it'll be heaving. And there's just too much too see. It would annoy me. Like starting a puzzle I'd never be able to finish. .. whilst also being elbow jabbed by lots of people lol

Sacre couer and sit on the steps outside with a wine. Even better if sun is going down!!

Centre Pompidou and a walk round La Marais. Le Louvre later…

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