Paris - The Delaplaine 2017 Long Weekend Guide: Long Weekend Guides

By Andrew Delaplaine

A complete guide for everything you need to experience a great Long Weekend in PARIS.  Both print and ebooks editions are updated throughout the year, so you'll save a lot of time using this concise guide.
 

“We had such a wonderful time in Paris because of this book. Short and to the point. Much more in it than you could possibly do in a single ‘Long Weekend,’ which made it nice because we could pick and choose without being overwhelmed.” ---Albert T., New York

“I’m glad he had several of the great bakeries listed. After we collected some picnic items and enjoyed our first meal in a park, we ended up eating only in these bakeries and we saved a ton of money and really felt like we were eating like locals. No sense of being a tourist at all. Lovely.” Anne T., Myrtle Beach

“The Delaplaine guide books ‘cut to the chase.’ You get what you need and don’t get what you don’t.” –Wilma K., Seattle

= LODGINGS, from budget to deluxe

= RESTAURANTS, from the finest the area has to offer ranging down to the cheapest (with the highest quality). More than sufficient listings to make your Long Weekend memorable.

= NIGHTLIFE, covering everything from intimate wine bars to dance clubs

= PRINCIPAL ATTRACTIONS -- don't waste your precious time on the lesser ones. We've done all the work for you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gramercy Park Press
• Release date: Sep 26, 2016
• ISBN: 9781533780935

Andrew Delaplaine

Delaplaine lives on South Beach, Miami’s Billion Dollar Sandbar. He writes in widely varied fields: screenplays, novels (adult and juvenile) and journalism. He also has a series of Long Weekend Guides covering some 50 cities around the world. Email: [e-mail] He writes several series: The “JACK HOUSTON ST. CLAIR” political thriller novels. “THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES IV,” a series of novels starring the great-great-grandson of the famous consulting detective. “THE ANNALS OF SANTOPIA” series, an epic that follows a Santa born in 1900 through to his death 82 years later. The AMOS FREEMAN police thrillers. Other novels: “The Trap Door” follows a boy who is taken back in time to 1594 and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. “The Meter Maid Murders,” a comic look at a detective trying to nab a serial killer on South Beach who only murders meter maids. Has written and directed three features (one doc, two narrative features), as well as several short films and won several awards for his film work. (See imdb.com for details).  His latest film, “Meeting Spencer,” starring Jeffrey Tambor, won the prestigious Milan International Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay.  DELAPLAINE’S “LONG WEEKEND” GUIDES These no-nonsense guides contain Delaplaine’s recommendations and advice for travelers visiting these places for 3 or 4 days. As "The Food Enthusiast," he writes a series of restaurants guides, updated annually. He has no hobbies.

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PARIS

The Delaplaine

2017 Long Weekend Guide

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Andrew Delaplaine

NO BUSINESS HAS PAID A SINGLE PENNY OR GIVEN ANYTHING TO BE INCLUDED IN THIS BOOK.

A list of the author’s other travel guides, as well as his political thrillers and titles for children, can be found at the end of this book.

Senior Editors - Renee & Sophie Delaplaine

Senior Writer - James Cubby

Copyright © by Gramercy Park Press - All rights reserved.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Chapter 1 – WHY PARIS?

Chapter 2 – GETTING ABOUT

Chapter 3 – WHERE TO STAY

High on the Hog – Sensible Alternatives – On a Budget

Chapter 4 – WHERE TO EAT

Chapter 5 – NIGHTLIFE

Chapter 6 – WHAT TO SEE & DO

Chapter 7 –  SHOPPING & SERVICES

Chapter 8 - GALLERIES

OTHER BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR

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LONG WEEKEND SERIES

Like you, when I’m heading into a new place, I have bought travel guides and toiled through them hour after hour trying to extract from the book the essence of the city or region I was visiting. Sometimes, sadly, I spent more hours reading the book than I did in the town it purported to tell me about. To judge by the size of some of these books, you’d think I was planning on spending my life there, not just a few days.

By including exhaustive detail in their guidebooks, many writers actually end up obscuring the essence of the city they’re writing about rather than revealing it.

If you’re going to stay two or more weeks in a place, then by all means do your homework. There are hundreds of guides, both in print and online, to assist you.

But if you’ve only got 3 or 4 days, your needs really are different. 

I would want to know:

= LODGINGS. What would be the best hotels or B&Bs or inns to choose from? I would want a choice of 4 or 5 places in different budget categories. (For the kid with a backpack will be on a different budget than someone on an expense account. A retired couple will have different wants and needs than a family of four.)

= RESTAURANTS. What would be a good selection of restaurants, again within different budget levels, that would represent the area I’m visiting? Again, whether expensive or cheap, which of the thousands of places to eat will give me a feel for the town?

= ATTRACTIONS. Of all the attractions and things to do, which are the most important that will leave me with memories that I’ve really seen the place?

= SHOPPING? Something different and out of the way reflective of the area. Not the big chains, whether that chain is Tiffany or the Gap. Something local.

Rather than craft a definitive itinerary for you the way many others have done, I’ve expanded the listings in each section so that you could get a good range of the offerings available—so you can pick and choose among them to craft your own special Long Weekend.

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Chapter 1

WHY PARIS?

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Where does one even start?

Yes, it is the most romantic city in the world, to my view. Some think that title belongs to Rome, but for me it will always be Paris.

It doesn’t hurt to be in Paris with someone you love. In fact, it makes a discernible difference in your experience there. And while it also helps to be young, that really isn’t necessary. It’s not essential that you be in love, of course. It’s just that there’s an added layer of emotion informing everything you see and do, an extra dimension that imbues your time there with an ineffable invisible coating that will fix the time in your memory till the day you die.

I know that sounds a little dramatic, but it’s absolutely true. It happened to me. Only once, but it happened.

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once