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  1. Hud

    Huddersfield Red Well-Known Member

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    Taking my wife for a few nights, looking for tips on where to stay, looking for something authentic fairly central, somewhere locals would use bars restaurants. decent nightlife.pavement cafes jazz bars, Latin Quater?
     
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    As they say, the only thing wrong with Paris is it's full of French people :)
     
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    On that basis thats why Scotland is out.
     
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    Latin Quarter certainly has plenty of bars and restaurants, but they tend to be frequented by tourists rather than locals.

    Last time we went we stopped here.

    http://www.paris-montparnasse-hotel.com/uk/index.php

    It's a very decent price for Paris and the rooms are really nice. Metro station is less than a minute's walk away. The surrounding area of Montparnasse has loads of cafes, bars and restaurants all within 5 minutes walk. Highly recommend it.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montparnasse
     
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    Tha wrong theer lad !!
     
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    Best advice I can give, is not to ask advice on here! Use TripAdvisor. What I will say is it's almost impossible to do Paris on the cheap, and enjoy it. Have fun.
     
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    Dare I say last time I was there it was actually mainly an African persuasion on the streets?

    I didn't enjoy my first trip there but was only about 13/14, I'd love to go back and give it another go.
     
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    You can't say that in here LD red you'll get branded!
     
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    It's a very beautiful place but it's bleeding expensive
     
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    Paris is very over-rated, I found it to be a pretty miserable place, chocablock with tourists, definitely in no rush to go back.

    Make sure it's Spring or Summer when you go, I must say the only part of it I enjoyed was sitting outside a cafe in the morning drinking coffee watching the world go by - although to be fair I can do that in tarn!
     
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    best advice I could offer is don't go.
     
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    Places such as Prague and krakow seem popular now
     
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