Posted: 2004-03-08 20:21:00
If you check out the International Youth Hostel's website at http://www.yhabooking.com/index.html you will realise that there are several hostels indicated for Paris. We stayed at Clichy and le d'Artagnan and the latter was definitely immensely better. The place is clean (ignore the old website photo) and the double rooms (you need to pay a supplement of less than one euro per person per night) are spanking new with TV and a clean ensuite shower. Common toilets which were often quiet and very clean too. You need to vacate the rooms, iirc, between 12noon and 3pm for chamber/corridor services. Dinner there was excellent - I had stewed beef which was the best food I had in Paris - no exaggeration! For breakfast you have french loaves, fruits, variety of meats, cheese, yoghurt, etc.
Le D'Artagnan is not as well located as Clichy, but accessible through the Metro with one change at la station Pere Lachaise. You stop at La Porte de Bagnolet and walk down a street, then turn right at a major junction. That's all. There is also food around there: one or two Italian cafeterias, some Mediterranean place, a surprisingly good chinese restaurant (stir-fried chilli beef, egg with crab meat) and I think the golden arches too. Grab your Metro day pass and get going! [ This Message was edited by: inzaghi on 2004-03-08 20:24 ] ---
Lover of just five things - travelling, photography, thick crust pizzas, the xy-chromosomes, the Italians and the Dutch. Well, I can't count, so?
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