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Paris
The world capital of atmosphere — where the best table is a riverbank.
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The Paris guide
Inside the premium guide
A preview of the real thing — a detailed premium guide, researched and checked in 2026. Click a page to enlarge.
THE COMPLETE CITY GUIDE
FRANCE · RESEARCHED 2026
Paris
The world capital of atmosphere — where the best table is a riverbank.
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The cover
What this guide covers
38 pages, A4 — cover to back. A phone edition comes with it.
What’s inside + how to use
The place & what a day costs
City at a glance — the best-of snapshot
What & how to eat
Where to eat — cheap & local
Mid-range & special occasion
Sweets, cafés & coffee
Vegan, veggie & gluten-free
Supermarkets & typical prices
Markets & food halls
Souvenirs & shopping
Where to stay — neighbourhoods
Budget, boutique & luxury stays
Hostels — the backpacker shortlist
Six big things to do
Top 10 experiences — book & compare
Nightlife & after dark
Best day trips
Insider tips + safety & scams
Ready-made day plans
Getting around
Arrival, tickets & transport cheat sheet
When to go + best time to visit
Cash, cards & tipping
Connectivity & insurance
Health, safety & entry
The travel toolbox
Every link, one place
Sama·Sama · Paris guide38 pages
Everything it covers
One real entry from the Paris guide
The price tables further down give you the ranges. The guide gives you the places — 35 of them in Paris, each priced, each one tap from Google Maps.
€8.50–11.50L'As du FallafelOpen on rue des Rosiers since 1979 and still the falafel every other Paris falafel is judged against — aubergine, hummus and harissa in a pita that needs two hands. €8.50 at the takeaway window, €10.50 seated. Closed Friday afternoon and all Saturday.📍 Open in Google Maps →One of 35. The rest are in the guide.
Everything. Two files. One price.
This isn’t a blog post saved as a PDF — it’s a detailed, premium, 38-page A4 magazine — researched and checked in 2026, designed to be used. And every purchase comes as two files: the A4 edition for your laptop, tablet and printer, and a phone edition laid out tall and narrow so you never pinch or zoom — the same guide re-flowed into 109 phone-sized pages. Keep it on your phone or print it, open it at a street corner in Paris and it answers the question you’re standing there with.
38A4 pages — cover to back
109phone pages — same guide, re-flowed
435+researched prices in €
330live, verified links
121jump straight to Google Maps
62hand-picked photos
Add it up: 827+ researched details — every price checked, every venue placed, every link live. More usable information than a week of blog-tab hopping, in one beautiful file.
- Made for the phone in your pocket — as well as the A4 magazine you get a phone edition: one attraction per screen, nothing cut, every link still live. No pinching, no sideways scrolling.
- Every venue is one tap from navigation — 121 Google Maps links mean you never type an address on holiday.
- Real prices, not vibes — three honest daily budgets (€74 / €130 / €260) and prices on everything from a dorm bed to a splurge dinner.
- Zero sponsorships — nobody paid to be in this guide. If it’s in, it’s in because it’s good.
- Book everything from the page — stays open on Booking.com & Hostelworld, experiences on GetYourGuide, Trip.com & Klook, transport on official operator sites.
- Plan-it-for-me included — ready day plans, a Top 10, a best-of snapshot, and neighbourhood “best for” labels that choose your base with you.
Buy the Paris guide — €9.95 →Or buy Paris on Etsy ↗
Was €14.50 — now €9.95, every city the same.
This page gives you the ranges. The guide gives you the places — every venue named, priced and linked.
SHOESTRING
€74/day
dorms, street plates, transit
COMFY
€130/day
private room, sit-down meals, a treat
FLASH
€260/day
nice hotel, good dinners, no maths
🧮 Trip maths
€911 total
What Paris costs, day to day
🛵 Getting around
Uber
Bolt
FreeNow
Métro ride (Navigo Easy)€1.9–€2.2
Day pass€7.4–€7.8
RER to CDG€10–€11
Vélib bike day€4.3–€8.7
🛏 Stays
Per night
Hostel dorm bed€26–€43
Airbnb studio€95–€156
3-star hotel€113–€191
Boutique splurge€304–€694
Monthly
Studio€1,215–€1,823
1-BR, decent arrondissement€1,562–€2,344
🛒 Groceries & daily life
Lidl / Aldi — the budget floor
Carrefour / Monoprix — Monoprix is the pricier one
Open-air marchés — morning produce ritual
Water 1.5 L€0.5–€0.8
Milk 1 L€1–€1.3
Eggs ×10€2.6–€3.3
Bread loaf€1.1–€1.6
Rice 1 kg€1.6–€2.2
Chicken breast 1 kg€7.8–€10
Bananas 1 kg€1.6–€1.9
Local beer 0.5 L (shop)€1.2–€1.6
🍜 Eating out
Jambon-beurre baguette€4.3–€6.1
Boulangerie lunch formule€6.9–€10
Crêpe from a stand€3.5–€5.2
Bistro menu (3 courses)€22–€35
Natural wine, glass€5.2–€7.8
🎡 Things to do — with kids
Luxembourg garden sailboats€3.5–€4.3
Cité des Sciences€11–€13
Eiffel lawn picnicfree
Vincennes zoo€15–€17
🌙 Things to do — grown-ups
Louvre (timed entry)€19
Musée d'Orsay€14
Montmartre at dawnfree
Seine quay picnicfree
Cabaret night€69–€113
🌤 Climate
Day °CRain
Best: May – Jun & Sep · Wet: —
Grey drizzle is a personality trait, not a season. June evenings and September light are the payoffs.
✈️ Getting there
easyJetVuelingTransaviaRyanairBarcelona€22–€52
Lisbon€26–€61
Rome€26–€61
Ryanair’s ‘Paris’ Beauvais is 80 km out — add the €17 bus to that €20 fare before celebrating.
🏧 ATMs & money
Fees: Bank ATMs ('distributeurs') are surcharge-free; avoid the gold-and-blue independent machines near sights.
Limits: Commonly €300–500 per pull.
Best machines: BNP ParibasCrédit AgricoleSociété Générale
Card country; you need little cash. If exchanging, a bank beats every bureau on the tourist trail.
🩺 Health & safety
Vaccines: Routine only.
Health: Tap water fine (ask for 'une carafe d'eau' — it's free). Pharmacies are French national treasures.
Tap water: ✅ Safe nationwide — ask for 'une carafe d'eau' free at any restaurant.
Safety: Paris is far safer than its reputation among people who watch too much news (~1.2/100k). Métro lines 1 and 4 and the Sacré-Cœur steps host Europe's most artistic pickpockets — phone in pocket before the doors open. The gold-ring and petition performers are street theatre; keep walking, enjoy the show.
Emergency: 112
🌱 Vegan, veggie & gluten-free
Plant-based: Classic bistros are stubborn, but boulangerie salads, falafel (Paris Marais!), and modern néo-bistros carry you; cheese makes vegetarian easy, vegan harder.
Gluten-free: Galettes (buckwheat crêpes) are the great naturally-GF French meal; 'sans gluten' bakeries thrive in Paris.
'Sans gluten' / 'végétalien' (vegan) — say it with confidence, get a shrug, get fed anyway.
🛂 Visa & entry
This is a Schengen-area country. Most US, UK, EU, Canadian, Australian, NZ, Brazilian, Japanese and Korean passports enter visa-free for up to 90 days in any 180-day period across the whole Schengen zone. From 2025 the EU's ETIAS pre-authorisation applies to visa-free non-EU visitors — check before you fly.
Rules change — always verify with an official source for your nationality before you book.
💬 Traveller tips & reports
Picnic like it’s a religion — A baguette, cheese and €6 wine on the Canal Saint-Martin at golden hour outclasses most €60 dinners. Paris’s best table is a quay.
@quai.gourmet · Jun ’25 · ▲ 201