{"id":1303671,"date":"2026-09-30T13:52:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T13:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/blog\/?page_id=1303671"},"modified":"2026-10-01T16:32:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:32:52","slug":"paris","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/blog\/europe\/france\/paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":0,"parent":1302293,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"hw-hub-city","meta":{"footnotes":"","hw_hub_hero_eyebrow":"","hw_hub_hero_h1":"","hw_hub_hero_intro":"","hw_hub_hero_image":"","hw_hub_hero_overlay":"","hw_hub_hero_cta":"","hw_hub_why_title":"","hw_hub_why_body":"","hw_hub_why_link_label":"","hw_hub_why_link_url":"","hw_hub_why_cards":"","hw_hub_stats":"","hw_hub_countries_title":"","hw_hub_countries_intro":"","hw_hub_featured":"","hw_hub_regions":"","hw_hub_hostels_title":"","hw_hub_hostels_intro":"","hw_hub_hostels_cta_label":"","hw_hub_hostels_cta_url":"","hw_hub_hostels_source":"","hw_hub_hostels_location_type":"","hw_hub_hostels_location_id":"","hw_hub_hostels_currency":"","hw_hub_hostels_count":"","hw_hub_hostels_cache":"","hw_hub_hostels":"","hw_hub_when_title":"","hw_hub_when_intro":"","hw_hub_seasons":"","hw_hub_costs_title":"","hw_hub_costs_body":"","hw_hub_cost_rows":"","hw_hub_cost_note":"","hw_hub_money_reads":"","hw_hub_rail_title":"","hw_hub_rail_body":"","hw_hub_rail_link_label":"","hw_hub_rail_link_url":"","hw_hub_rail_image":"","hw_hub_routes":"","hw_hub_events_title":"","hw_hub_events_intro":"","hw_hub_events_source":"","hw_hub_events_continent":"","hw_hub_events_count":"","hw_hub_events_cache":"","hw_hub_events_cta_label":"","hw_hub_events_cta_url":"","hw_hub_events":"","hw_hub_events_pills":"","hw_hub_reads_intro":"","hw_hub_article_rows":"","hw_hub_show_read_time":"","hw_hub_all_title":"","hw_hub_all_body":"","hw_hub_all_cta":"","hw_hub_trips_title":"","hw_hub_trips_note":"","hw_hub_trips":"","hw_hub_faq_title":"","hw_hub_faq_note":"","hw_hub_faqs":"","hw_hub_cta_title":"","hw_hub_cta_body":"","hw_hub_cta_buttons":"","hw_hub_newsletter_title":"","hw_hub_newsletter_body":"","hw_hub_newsletter_shortcode":"","hw_hub_hub_term":"","hw_hub_scope_rows":"","hw_hub_country_hero_eyebrow":"","hw_hub_country_hero_h1":"","hw_hub_country_hero_intro":"","hw_hub_country_hero_image":"","hw_hub_country_hero_overlay":"","hw_hub_country_hero_cta":"","hw_hub_country_stats":"","hw_hub_country_intro_title":"","hw_hub_country_intro_body":"","hw_hub_country_facts":"","hw_hub_country_cities_title":"","hw_hub_country_cities_intro":"","hw_hub_country_cities_live":"","hw_hub_country_cities":"","hw_hub_country_trips_title":"","hw_hub_country_trips_intro":"","hw_hub_country_trip_types":"","hw_hub_country_do_title":"","hw_hub_country_do_body":"","hw_hub_country_do_points":"","hw_hub_country_do_tag":"","hw_hub_country_do_more":"","hw_hub_country_food_title":"","hw_hub_country_food_body":"","hw_hub_country_food_points":"","hw_hub_country_food_tag":"","hw_hub_country_food_more":"","hw_hub_country_nightlife_title":"","hw_hub_country_nightlife_body":"","hw_hub_country_nightlife_points":"","hw_hub_country_nightlife_tag":"","hw_hub_country_nightlife_more":"","hw_hub_country_transport_title":"","hw_hub_country_transport_body":"","hw_hub_country_transport_points":"","hw_hub_country_transport_tag":"","hw_hub_country_transport_more":"","hw_hub_country_money_title":"","hw_hub_country_money_body":"","hw_hub_country_money_points":"","hw_hub_country_money_tag":"","hw_hub_country_money_more":"","hw_hub_country_safety_title":"","hw_hub_country_safety_body":"","hw_hub_country_safety_points":"","hw_hub_country_safety_tag":"","hw_hub_country_safety_more":"","hw_hub_country_entry_title":"","hw_hub_country_entry_body":"","hw_hub_country_entry_points":"","hw_hub_country_entry_tag":"","hw_hub_country_entry_more":"","hw_hub_country_season_title":"","hw_hub_country_season_intro":"","hw_hub_country_season_note":"","hw_hub_country_season_rows":"","hw_hub_country_budget_title":"","hw_hub_country_budget_intro":"","hw_hub_country_budget_note":"","hw_hub_country_budget_rows":"","hw_hub_country_budget_currency":"","hw_hub_country_events_title":"","hw_hub_country_events_intro":"","hw_hub_country_events_source":"","hw_hub_country_events_country":"","hw_hub_country_events_count":"","hw_hub_country_events_cache":"","hw_hub_country_events_cta_label":"","hw_hub_country_events_cta_url":"","hw_hub_country_events":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_title":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_intro":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_cta_label":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_cta_url":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_source":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_location_type":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_location_id":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_currency":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_count":"","hw_hub_country_hostels_cache":"","hw_hub_country_hostels":"","hw_hub_country_faq_title":"","hw_h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city guide","hw_hub_city_hero_h1":"Things To Do In Paris","hw_hub_city_hero_intro":"Worth the clich\u00e9, and worth more than the three days most people give it. Expensive, walkable, and far better once you stop trying to see all of it.","hw_hub_city_hero_image":"1304190","hw_hub_city_hero_overlay":"light","hw_hub_city_hero_cta":"Where to stay | #areas\r\nWhat it costs | #money","hw_hub_city_live_stats":"1","hw_hub_city_stats":"20 | Arrondissements, spiralling out from the centre\r\n1st Sunday | When many national museums are free\r\n\u20ac2.50 | A single metro or RER ticket within Paris","hw_hub_city_intro_title":"A city best taken in neighbourhoods, not landmarks","hw_hub_city_intro_body":"Paris is twenty arrondissements spiralling clockwise from the Louvre, and the single most useful decision you can make is to pick three or four of them and walk, rather than crossing the city between monuments.\r\n\r\nThe famous things are famous for reasons. The Louvre is genuinely overwhelming and should be attacked with a plan; Notre-Dame reopened in December 2024 after the 2019 fire and is free to enter; the Mus\u00e9e d'Orsay in a converted railway station is the better museum for most people.\r\n\r\nWhat makes the city work is smaller: the market streets, the covered passages, the canal in the tenth, the parks where Parisians sit for entire afternoons.\r\n\r\nIt is expensive but less so than its reputation if you eat at lunch rather than dinner and stand at the bar rather than sitting on the terrace, where the same coffee costs more.\r\n\r\nFour days minimum. A week is not too long.","hw_hub_city_facts":"Getting in | CDG: RER B, 35 minutes. Orly: metro line 14, about 25 minutes. Both \u20ac13 on the airport ticket\r\nGetting around | Metro \u20ac2.50 a ticket, less as a carnet of ten on a Navigo Easy card\r\nCurrency | Euro\r\nMuseums | Many national museums are free on the first Sunday of the month, and free year-round for under-26 EU residents\r\nTipping | Service is included. Rounding up is plenty\r\nTerrace pricing | Coffee costs more sitting down than standing at the bar. This is normal and posted","hw_hub_city_areas_title":"Where to stay","hw_hub_city_areas_intro":"Pick an arrondissement and walk it. Anywhere inside the P\u00e9riph\u00e9rique is twenty minutes from the middle.","hw_hub_city_areas_map":"1","hw_hub_city_areas_zoom":"12","hw_hub_city_hostels_pins":"1","hw_hub_city_areas_live":"1","hw_hub_city_areas":"Le Marais and Bastille | First-timers | The 3rd and 4th: medieval streets, museums, the best bars and a walk to Notre-Dame. Central and pricey. | 48.8570 | 2.3620 | Bastille | https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/hostels\/europe\/france\/paris\/d\/bastille\/\nLatin Quarter | Students and value | The 5th: the Panth\u00e9on, bookshops, cheap student restaurants and the Jardin des Plantes. | 48.8480 | 2.3470 | Latin Quarter | https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/hostels\/europe\/france\/paris\/d\/latin-quarter\/\nMontmartre | Views and atmosphere | The 18th: the hill, Sacr\u00e9-C\u0153ur, steep lanes and a village feel above the rest of the city. | 48.8860 | 2.3430 |  | \nCanal Saint-Martin and Gare du Nord | Nightlife and transport | The 10th: canal-side bars, young crowds, Eurostar and trains north. | 48.8760 | 2.3590 | Gare du Nord | https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/hostels\/europe\/france\/paris\/d\/gare-du-nord\/\nMontparnasse | Quiet and well connected | The 14th: caf\u00e9s with a literary past, a cemetery worth walking, and fast metro to everywhere. | 48.8420 | 2.3210 | Montparnasse | https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/hostels\/europe\/france\/paris\/d\/montparnasse\/\nEiffel Tower and the 7th | The postcard | Wide boulevards, the Champ de Mars, Les Invalides and the tower at the end of the street. | 48.8580 | 2.2950 | Eiffel Tower | https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/hostels\/europe\/france\/paris\/d\/eiffel-tower\/","hw_hub_city_itin_title":"How long have you got?","hw_hub_city_itin_intro":"The routes we would walk, in the order we would walk them.","hw_hub_city_itin":"","hw_hub_city_do_title":"Things to do in Paris","hw_hub_city_do_body":"Do the Louvre with a plan and a booked slot: about \u20ac22 for EU residents and, since January 2026, \u20ac32 for visitors from outside the European Economic Area. It is the largest art museum in the world and trying to see it all is how people end up miserable \u2014 pick two wings, take three hours, leave.\r\n\r\nThe Mus\u00e9e d'Orsay, about \u20ac16, in a converted Beaux-Arts railway station, holds the Impressionists and is the museum most people enjoy more.\r\n\r\nNotre-Dame reopened in December 2024 after the fire and is free to enter, though queues are long and a time slot booked in advance saves an hour.\r\n\r\nClimb something for the view. Sacr\u00e9-C\u0153ur's dome and the Arc de Triomphe both work; the Montparnasse tower at about \u20ac20 has the advantage of a view with the Eiffel Tower in it, which the Eiffel Tower itself does not.\r\n\r\nThen walk. P\u00e8re-Lachaise cemetery, the covered passages of the 2nd, the Canal Saint-Martin and the market street of Rue Mouffetard are all free and are the Paris people remember.","hw_hub_city_do_points":"The Louvre | \u20ac22 for EU residents, \u20ac32 for others. Book a slot, pick two wings, leave\r\nMus\u00e9e d'Orsay | About \u20ac16, and the one most people prefer\r\nNotre-Dame | Free, reopened December 2024. Book a slot\r\nP\u00e8re-Lachaise | Free, and the best walk in the city","hw_hub_city_do_tag":"things-to-do","hw_hub_city_do_more":"All things to do in Paris","hw_hub_city_free_title":"Free things to do in Paris","hw_hub_city_free_body":"Many national museums are free on the first Sunday of the month \u2014 the Louvre, Orsay and others \u2014 and busy accordingly. EU residents under twenty-six get in free year-round at national museums, which is the single largest saving available to anyone who qualifies.\r\n\r\nNotre-Dame is free to enter, as are all the city's churches: Sainte-Chapelle charges, but Saint-Eustache, Saint-Sulpice and Saint-Germain-des-Pr\u00e9s do not.\r\n\r\nP\u00e8re-Lachaise cemetery is free and enormous, with Wilde, Chopin and Morrison among its residents.\r\n\r\nThe parks cost nothing: the Luxembourg gardens, the Tuileries, Buttes-Chaumont in the 19th, and the Promenade Plant\u00e9e, an elevated park on a disused railway viaduct that predates New York's High Line.\r\n\r\nThe covered passages of the 2nd arrondissement \u2014 nineteenth-century glass-roofed arcades \u2014 are free and largely missed.","hw_hub_city_free_points":"First Sunday of the month | Many national museums free, and packed\r\nUnder-26 EU residents | Free at national museums year-round\r\nP\u00e8re-Lachaise | Free, and worth two hours\r\nThe covered passages | Glass-roofed arcades in the 2nd, free and overlooked","hw_hub_city_free_tag":"free-things-to-do","hw_hub_city_free_more":"All free things to do in Paris","hw_hub_city_food_title":"Eating and drinking in Paris","hw_hub_city_food_body":"Eat your main meal at lunch. The formule \u2014 two or three courses at a set price \u2014 runs \u20ac15 to \u20ac22 at midday in places charging \u20ac40 in the evening, and it is the single biggest saving in the city.\r\n\r\nBoulangeries do lunch for \u20ac5 to \u20ac8: a sandwich jambon-beurre, a quiche, a slice of something. The baguette de tradition is the one to ask for.\r\n\r\nMarket streets are where to eat well cheaply \u2014 Rue Mouffetard in the 5th, Rue des Martyrs in the 9th, the March\u00e9 d'Aligre in the 12th.\r\n\r\nCoffee standing at the bar costs roughly half what it costs at a terrace table, and both prices are posted by law.\r\n\r\nA glass of wine is \u20ac4 to \u20ac7, a beer \u20ac5 to \u20ac8. Service is included on every bill; rounding up is plenty.","hw_hub_city_food_points":"Eat at lunch | The formule is \u20ac15\u201322 midday, \u20ac40 at night\r\nBoulangerie lunch | \u20ac5\u20138, and genuinely good\r\nStand at the bar | Coffee costs about half what it does at a table\r\nService is included | Rounding up is plenty","hw_hub_city_food_tag":"food","hw_hub_city_food_more":"All food guides for Paris","hw_hub_city_nightlife_title":"Going out in Paris","hw_hub_city_nightlife_body":"Neighbourhood-led rather than club-led. Oberkampf and M\u00e9nilmontant in the 11th, the Canal Saint-Martin in the 10th, and Bastille are where most nights happen; the Marais has the gay scene and the busiest bars.\r\n\r\nBelleville and Pigalle have the late venues, and Pigalle has shed most of its old reputation without losing the neon.\r\n\r\nA beer is \u20ac5 to \u20ac8 and cocktails \u20ac10 to \u20ac15, cheaper in the 11th and 20th than the centre.\r\n\r\nThe metro runs until about 1am on weekdays and 2am at weekends, after which it is night buses or a walk \u2014 plan the last leg before you need it.\r\n\r\nAp\u00e9ro is the fixed point of the evening: a drink from six, often with something to eat, and it is how most Parisian nights actually start.","hw_hub_city_nightlife_points":"Oberkampf and the canal | Where most nights happen\r\nMetro stops around 1\u20132am | Plan the last leg before you need it\r\nAp\u00e9ro from six | How the evening actually starts here\r\nPrices | Beer \u20ac5\u20138, cocktails \u20ac10\u201315","hw_hub_city_nightlife_tag":"nightlife","hw_hub_city_nightlife_more":"All nightlife guides for Paris","hw_hub_city_transport_title":"Getting around Paris","hw_hub_city_transport_body":"The metro is dense, fast and the default \u2014 a single ticket is \u20ac2.50, and a carnet of ten loaded onto a Navigo Easy card brings the per-trip cost down. Buy before you travel rather than queueing at every station.\r\n\r\nWalk more than you plan to. Paris is small for a capital and adjacent arrondissements are usually fifteen minutes apart on foot, often faster than changing lines twice.\r\n\r\nFrom CDG, the RER B takes about 35 minutes on the \u20ac13 airport ticket. Metro line 14 now runs straight to Orly in about 25 minutes on the same \u20ac13 ticket.\r\n\r\nV\u00e9lib bike hire is widespread and the city has built a serious cycle network in recent years, including along the Rue de Rivoli.\r\n\r\nStrikes affect transport periodically and are announced in advance \u2014 worth checking the day before if you have a train to catch.","hw_hub_city_transport_points":"Metro tickets | \u20ac2.50, less as a carnet on Navigo Easy\r\nWalk between neighbours | Often faster than two line changes\r\nCDG | RER B, 35 minutes, \u20ac13 airport ticket\r\nCheck for strikes | Announced ahead. Matters if you have a train","hw_hub_city_transport_tag":"transport","hw_hub_city_transport_more":"All transport guides for Paris","hw_hub_city_money_title":"What Paris costs","hw_hub_city_money_body":"Expensive, though less so than the reputation if you use the city's own habits. Dorms are \u20ac30 to \u20ac55, a lunch formule \u20ac15 to \u20ac22, and a beer \u20ac5 to \u20ac8.\r\n\r\nA day is \u20ac65 to \u20ac120.\r\n\r\nThe savings that actually work: eat the main meal at lunch, stand at the bar, buy metro tickets in a carnet, use the first-Sunday free museum days, and stay in the 10th, 11th, 18th or 20th rather than the first six arrondissements.\r\n\r\nIf you are an EU resident under twenty-six, national museums are free year-round and that changes the budget entirely.\r\n\r\nTGV fares to the rest of France drop sharply when booked weeks ahead.","hw_hub_city_money_points":"Dorm bed | \u20ac30\u201355\r\nA day, all in | \u20ac65\u2013120\r\nLunch formule | \u20ac15\u201322 for what costs \u20ac40 at dinner\r\nUnder-26 EU residents | National museums free, year-round","hw_hub_city_money_tag":"budget","hw_hub_city_money_more":"All budget guides for Paris","hw_hub_city_safety_title":"Staying safe in Paris","hw_hub_city_safety_body":"Paris is safe for a city its size, and the crime that affects visitors is almost entirely theft rather than violence.\r\n\r\nPickpocketing is organised and persistent on the metro line 1, at Ch\u00e2telet, around the Eiffel Tower, Sacr\u00e9-C\u0153ur and the Louvre. Keep bags closed and in front of you on crowded platforms.\r\n\r\nThe standard scams are worth recognising: the friendship bracelet at the foot of the Montmartre steps, the gold ring picked up off the pavement, the clipboard petition, and the shell game near the tower. All of them open with a stranger addressing you in English.\r\n\r\nGare du Nord and parts of the 18th and 19th are rougher late at night, though rarely more than that.\r\n\r\nDo not buy tickets from anyone outside a station. Emergency number is 112.","hw_hub_city_safety_points":"Pickpockets | Line 1, Ch\u00e2telet, the tower, Sacr\u00e9-C\u0153ur, the Louvre\r\nThe bracelet at Montmartre | A scam. So is the ring and the petition\r\nLate at night | Gare du Nord and parts of the 18th and 19th\r\nNever buy tickets from touts | Only machines and counters","hw_hub_city_safety_tag":"safety","hw_hub_city_safety_more":"All safety guides for Paris","hw_hub_city_trips_title":"Day trips from Paris","hw_hub_city_trips_intro":"A palace, a cathedral and champagne, all under ninety minutes.","hw_hub_city_trips":"Versailles | 45 minutes | RER C, about \u20ac8 return | The palace and its gardens. Book a slot, go early, and give the gardens as long as the building. |  | 1304270\nChartres | 1 hour | Train, about \u20ac18 | A Gothic cathedral with the best-preserved medieval stained glass in France, in a small town. |  | 1304271\nReims | 45 minutes | TGV, \u20ac25\u201345 | Champagne cellars and a coronation cathedral, close enough to do easily in a day. |  | 1304272\nFontainebleau | 40 minutes | Train and bus, about \u20ac12 | A royal ch\u00e2teau with fewer crowds than Versailles, and a forest of climbing boulders around it. |  | 1304273","hw_hub_city_trips_tag":"day-trips","hw_hub_city_trips_more":"All day trips from Paris","hw_hub_city_season_title":"When to go","hw_hub_city_season_intro":"May, June, September and October. August empties of Parisians and fills with everyone else.","hw_hub_city_season_note":"Average highs. The August emptying is real \u2014 a lot of independent restaurants and shops close for two or three weeks, so check before building a trip around a specific place.","hw_hub_city_season_rows":"January | 7 | 2 | Cold, grey and cheapest. Museums without queues\r\nFebruary | 8 | 3 | Still grey. Good value and quiet\r\nMarch | 12 | 3 | Lengthening. Parks starting to work\r\nApril | 16 | 4 | Blossom and showers. Busy at Easter\r\nMay | 20 | 5 | Excellent. Terraces open and long evenings\r\nJune | 23 | 5 | The best month. F\u00eate de la Musique on the 21st\r\nJuly | 25 | 5 | Hot and full. Bastille Day on the 14th\r\nAugust | 25 | 4 | Parisians leave and many small places close. Hot and touristed\r\nSeptember | 21 | 5 | Superb. The city comes back and the weather holds\r\nOctober | 16 | 4 | Autumn in the parks. Good value\r\nNovember | 11 | 3 | Grey and wet. Quiet, and the lights go up late in the month\r\nDecember | 8 | 4 | Christmas markets and lit boulevards. Cold and busy","hw_hub_city_events_title":"What is on while you are there","hw_hub_city_events_intro":"Free music on every street on 21 June, and a military parade on 14 July.","hw_hub_city_events_source":"api","hw_hub_city_events_count":"8","hw_hub_city_events_cache":"24","hw_hub_city_events_cta_label":"All events in Paris","hw_hub_city_events_cta_url":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/events\/europe\/france\/paris\/","hw_hub_city_events":"F\u00eate de la Musique | 21 June | Citywide | Free live music on streets, in bars and in squares across the whole city, all evening and most of the night. |  | \nBastille Day | 14 July | Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es and Trocad\u00e9ro | A military parade in the morning and fireworks at the Eiffel Tower at night. Extremely crowded. |  | \nNuit Blanche | Early October | Citywide | An all-night contemporary art event with installations and venues open until dawn. Free. |  | \nChristmas markets and lights | Late November to early January | Citywide | Markets across the city and lit boulevards, with the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es the showpiece. |  | \nParis Plages | July and August | Seine banks | The riverbanks turned into a summer promenade with sand, deckchairs and events. Free. |  | ","hw_hub_city_budget_title":"What your trip will cost","hw_hub_city_budget_intro":"Pick how you travel. Per person per night, in euros.","hw_hub_city_budget_note":"The food line assumes a lunch formule and a light dinner. Free first Sundays and the under-26 EU exemption can cut the doing line to almost nothing.","hw_hub_city_budget_rows":"Shoestring | 30 | 18 | 6 | 5\r\nMiddle of the road | 48 | 38 | 8 | 25\r\nComfortable | 85 | 70 | 12 | 45","hw_hub_city_budget_currency":"\u20ac","hw_hub_city_hostels_title":"Where to stay in Paris","hw_hub_city_hostels_intro":"The largest hostel scene in France, concentrated in the 10th, 11th, 18th and 20th. Live from Hostelworld.","hw_hub_city_hostels_cta_label":"All hostels in Paris","hw_hub_city_hostels_cta_url":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/hostels\/europe\/france\/paris\/","hw_hub_city_hostels_source":"api","hw_hub_city_hostels_count":"12","hw_hub_city_hostels_cache":"12","hw_hub_city_picks":"Best for solo travellers |  |  | \nBest for a party |  |  | \nQuietest |  |  | ","hw_hub_city_hostels":"","hw_hub_city_faq_title":"Paris travel questions","hw_hub_city_faq_note":"The ones we get asked most.","hw_hub_city_faqs":"How many days do I need? | Four minimum, and a week is not too long. The mistake is trying to cross the city between landmarks \u2014 pick three or four arrondissements and walk them instead.\r\nCan I go inside Notre-Dame? | Yes. It reopened in December 2024 after the 2019 fire and entry is free, though queues are long and booking a time slot in advance saves a considerable wait.\r\nAre the museums ever free? | Many national museums are free on the first Sunday of the month, and they are correspondingly packed. EU residents under twenty-six get in free year-round, which is the biggest single saving available if you qualify.\r\nHow do I not overspend? | Eat your main meal at lunch, where a two or three course formule runs \u20ac15 to \u20ac22 in places charging \u20ac40 at dinner. Drink coffee standing at the bar rather than at a terrace table. Buy metro tickets in a carnet. Stay outside the first six arrondissements.\r\nIs the Eiffel Tower worth going up? | The view from it is the only one in Paris without the Eiffel Tower in it, which is an argument against. Montparnasse tower at about \u20ac20, Sacr\u00e9-C\u0153ur's dome and the Arc de Triomphe all give you the tower in the picture.\r\nWhat scams should I watch for? | The friendship bracelet at the foot of the Montmartre steps, the gold ring apparently found on the pavement, the clipboard petition, and the shell game near the Eiffel Tower. They all open with a stranger addressing you in English.\r\nIs August a bad time to visit? | It is hot, crowded with visitors and empty of Parisians \u2014 a lot of independent restaurants and shops close for two or three weeks. If there is somewhere specific you want to eat, check it is open before you plan around it.","hw_hub_city_cta_title":"Say yes to hostels, meet the world","hw_hub_city_cta_body":"Compare Paris hostels \u2014 live prices, real reviews and free cancellation on most bookings. 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