Be prepared for lines long as frick at the Catacombs. Don't do all of the touristy stuff if you only have five days. You'll spend too much time in line.

If you have to go up the Eiffel Tower, you don't need to pay the exorbitant fee to go all the way to the top. The views from halfway up are nearly as good.

If you have to go to the Louvre, forget about the Mona Lisa unless you want to fight your way through hundreds of Asian tourists.

If you have to go to Versailles... in July, just don't.

Drink tons of wine. Even the house wine at restaurants is good.

Take a bottle, or three, of wine over to the Eiffel Tower at night and chill out on the Champ de Mars whilst drinking said wine.

If people approach you and try to tie strings on your arms, or tell you that you dropped a ring, ignore them and walk the other way.

Don't drive. Take the metro or walk. We only stay in the 7e so most stuff is central, but the metro will take you within a couple of blocks of anywhere you want to go, and it's fairly cheap.

Wander the neighborhoods. Drink and eat where the locals drink and eat. Costs less and the food is better.

Check out Montmartre. So many awesome shops and artists there below Sacre Coeur.

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Posted on 5/29/15 at 11:15 am to CatFan81

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Be prepared for lines long as frick at the Catacombs

It gets dark late as hell in Paris and things don't usually open up till like 10 am

So if the popular attractions are a must do for you, get up at a decent hour, eat a light breakfast and get in line at like 8:30. When you get in line, stop by and pick up a breakfast somewhere near by to eat in line.

Use caution..Paris is a late, late city. It will get dark, you'll stop for a glass of wine or two and the next thing you know it, it will be 1 am. Make the decision ahead of time what nights you want to do late and what mornings you want to do early.

The wine tasting dinner at O 'Chateau was one of my favorite nights while there

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My popular attraction favorites were probably Military Museum and Napoleons tomb at les Invalides