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Regardless of whether you're flying into CDG or Orly, consider hiring a service to take you to your destination rather than the Metro or a taxi.

Any particular company you’d recommend?

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Normandy

This seems like more than a day trip based on my very early research. Did you do it in a day and enjoy it?

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Champagne country

Any particular area / tour that you’ve enjoyed?

Thanks for the help thus far.

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Posted by Wildcat In Germany

Metro Atlanta

Member since May 2017

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Posted on 2/6/18 at 6:57 pm to Tha Herg

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Any particular company you’d recommend?

This is a good one. They'll be in the airport waiting for you and take you directly where you're staying. Saves you a lot of hassle.

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This seems like more than a day trip based on my very early research. Did you do it in a day and enjoy it?

We have done a day trip. Caught a train around 8 a.m., made it up in time to check out the Bayeux Cathedral, took a half day tour of Omaha Beach, Pointe du Hoc and the American Cemetery at Longues Sur Mer, ate at a creperie there and caught the train back to Paris. Our guide even let us take stones off of Omaha Beach.

We used Overlord Tours and took This tour. They do an excellent job and we really enjoyed it.

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Any particular area / tour that you’ve enjoyed?

You can't go wrong with Reims. The Mumm Champagne house, Veuve Clicquot Champagne house and G.H. Martel, among others, are there.

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Posted by hungryone

river parishes

Member since Sep 2010

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Posted on 2/6/18 at 7:58 pm to Tha Herg

RE: getting from the airport, I’ve never used a car service in Paris. The RER B regional train line leaves directly from the airport, and it will have you in central Paris in 45 mins for 10,30. It is a commuter line, so it starts running very early and runs pretty late. Learn to pack light—everything for a week easily fits into a 19” wheeled carryon. Rent a place with a washer/dryer, find a laundromat, or use your hotel’s laundry service. Carrying too much crap, and then worrying about how to transport said crap, or worrying about losing said crap, is a big vacation drag.

The website Paris by Train gives step by step instructions, including photos, on getting from the airport into Paris, for navigating the principal train stations, etc. LINK

(That said, I am using a car service to get back to the airport in Rome in two weeks, mainly because my flight departs at 8 am and Rome’s transport isn’t as efficient as Paris.)

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