Price of four or five days in Paris

[pointydog]

I am still mulling over a holiday in Paris, first time, four or five days avec la famille at Easter. I'm thinking of accommodation that would be about 150e a night.

I'm sure some of you have had a Paris family holiday - if so, what do you reckon it cost you all in, with a standard accom, flights, spending money for sightseeing and meals? Just wondering if I should stop researching now based on cost or if it's worth ploughing on.

How would you want to travel. Fly, fly-drive, Eurostar. Coach. self-drive or hitch hike.

would fly, from Edinburgh or Glasgow but not hire a car. Taxi. Looking at accom where we could walk everywhere (well, pretty much).

As far as accomodation goes I would reccommend an apartment. We did this for a long weekend in december + it was perfect, especially if you have younger children. We found our apt via this site

we re doing the same 4 nights
accomodation is going to be about 700euro, renting an apartment.
flights 678 euro
spending money at disney inc tickets prob about 200 euro
taxi from the airport to centre about 50 euro eac h way. makes life so much easier with kids

the rest of my spending money is for paris and i CANT WAIT!!!! i will spend a fortune, cant wait.....

We did this in October with dd1 (12) and ds (8), and it was really really fab. The children still talk about it, and we all had an amzing time.

We had a cheapy deal, because a friend of my mum's lent us a flat she had rented for some other friends but couldn't use (if that makes sense), but was offset by travel costs -- we travelled Eurostar from London which was EXPENSIVE because it was all last minute.

HAve you looked at one of the short break companies? You might find an all-in deal better value than booking it yourself.

Eating out is cheaper in Paris than in London, tho' obviously you can spend pretty much what you want to. We were very central, so spent hardly anything on travel. There was a thread about this a while ago (late Sept early Oct) where Bink recommended a company that rent short-let flats. Having a kitchen can cut costs as you can eat in occasionally.

thanks for replies. Yes, I've brought this up before and have earmarked binks' appartment on rentparis. It looked very good.

You're right, frogs. I should also compare to a travel company's deal. Although I do like the idea of having an appartment to eat in and not having to reply on eatin gout all teh time. My kids'll be a little fussy with food

We booked Eurostar fairly fair in advance & I think there was an airmiles freebie-element too. So I think that compared favourably with flying.

The apartment you know about - excellent value for money we thought.

The only outlay we did was the Eiffel Tower (which is not really pushing the boat out). Everything else was modest: 4-day-multi-museum passes (tattered with use by end of stay); walked everywhere; Batobus instead of Bateau Mouche; croque monsieur lunches & Picard froz dinners for me & dh. So depending on what you want to do, it can be v inexpensive. But if you want to do Disney, well presumably other end of scale?

Our star attraction (the 8-11s only - no parents - playpark in Les Halles) was billed as costing a few euro & in fact turned out to be entirely free.

Hmm, inaccuracy - playpark is 7s - 11s. Not sure if relevant in any way at all ...

went in december

flights 264
accommodation 600 (just off ch-ely)
spending/food 500
boutique (spend pour moi 400)
This was for 5 nights
incl entry to museums

2 adults, 1 7mo

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69 euros per night

Only 1 actual bedroom but location sounds OK?

If you have more than 2 kids you'll have to leave one behind though...

so egood tips, thanks.

Bink, was your appt 1 bedroom and one sofa bed in living room? That's all I could find on your street

ONly 2 kids (11, 9) but I don't want budget. I just don't do budget any more - it's my age.

I'l look up easyjet amd moneysaving..

By the looks of it, I think I'm prob looking at about £1100 all in if I'm lucky.

Ours was 2 bedrooms (plus sofabed in living room) - both bedrooms were double beds, though, which was OK for us as mine (8 & 7) are remarkably tolerant about sharing, but at 11 & 9 you probably want your own space. Living room is the only & whole common space though (kitchen is there too), so if you had an 11yo on sofabed Bang would go lazy late spousal evenings with wine & book. Oh I suppose parents could have sofabed ...

Anyway, will try & find exact link.

oh, I couldn't find 2 bed one in that area. I know I'd moan about putting a sofa bed down every night, that's all

dds would happily share a double bed and prob prefer it

Here it is, no. 26 on website.

For background, I found it by looking on tripadvisor for the best-recommended self-catering options in Paris. The top however many were all Citadines-type places, but somehow RentParis appeared in there too. We worked out the value for money by seeing what was actually available at Citadines (etc. - the cost varies between locations, & so often the location you want is more heavily booked & so options left are dearer ...) - and the flat, for a group of 4, worked out cheaper. But it was not at all a grisly bottom-of-barrel option - it is indeed small, but it's all you need.

oh bog. It's not available at easter, that's why it didn't show up for me