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July 08, 2006
Paris - Day 3
Another day spent at mostly 1 place. I went to Versailles in the morning. A tip to everyone entering Versailles, to avoid the ultra long ticket queue at Entrace A go to the 'secret' Entrance D (Dauphin Entrance), a helpful British chap in the Information desk gave me this really usefull information. If you can't find Entrance D, just ask the Information desk which hopefully will have a much shorter queue than the ticket queue.
I recommend getting there early in the morning so you can get most value out of the EUR20 ticket price to see both the castle and Marie Antoinette's domain. Many people skip Marie Antoinette's domain and paid EUR13.5, but I think it's well worth the extra EUR6.5 - although it's just recently opened and thus the audioguide mentioned in the brochure is not yet available. A few sections of the castle are undergoing renovation work, but don't make this put your visit to Versailles, the renovation work will only finish in 2019.
At night a few of us went to the Eiffel Tower. This, like everyone said is a much better undertaking than going in the morning. Of course by the time we're about to go back to the hostel the Metro has already stopped and no one wanted to walk back to the hostel. Cabbing it back to the hostel (near Sacre Cour) cost us EUR14 and EUR15 for the other cab (including the extra surcharge EUR2.70 for 4 people in a cab).
Posted by vhadiant at July 8, 2006 10:56 AM
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