I took some photos to help some of you get through Gare du Nord and Gare de l%26#39;Est in Paris. While I personally find them quite easy to use, some people never seem to know where to find a taxi, where the lockers are, is the metro close to the station, and things like that.
So, here is my take on those two places:
Gare du Nord: anyportinastorm.proboards.com/index.cgi…
Gare de l%26#39;Est: anyportinastorm.proboards.com/index.cgi…
Good luck!
(Yes, I know I still need to take pictures about how to get between the two stations, even though they are only 3 blocks apart.)
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Thank you so much for the wonderful picture guide...Although we will not be staying in Paris, we will be visiting for one day in November from London. With all of the great info I have learned on this forum, these detailed pictures make me even more confident of our trip! You are a great asset to this forum.
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A picture is worth a thousand words, thanks so much. We will be arriving at CDG on Nov 11 and taking the RER to Gare de Nord and the metro to Gare de l%26#39;Est, I would love to see your instructions on how to navigate between the two. Your detailed pictures are so helpful, I loved the info on the self cleaning toilets.
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Merci, merci, Kerouac. We will be arriving at Gare du Nord from London next May. Your photos are very reassuring. I have bookmarked the thread, along with other photo essays you have provided in recent months.
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Kerouac2,
Thanks for the great images. I wish I had this before wandering around looking for the Eurostar entrance before heading up the stairs.
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Thanks. If you could take some photos of the route between the two that does not involve the flight of steps, it would be useful. It is longer, not signposted but useful with luggage.
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With luggage, better to walk between the two, or pop onto the Metro for one stop?
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If you look at Kerouac%26#39;s link for Gare du Nord and scroll down to a picture which shows New Hotel on one corner of a street, and a bar/cafe called Gare du Nord on the other, with Hotel Apollo in the background.......well. that street between the New Hotel and the Gare du Nord bar, is called rue de St Quentin, and if you go along there you come to a bus stop. Which is the ideal way to head into other parts of Paris without going down any stairs. For example you can get a No 38, which goes via Gare de l%26#39;Est, the Pompidou Centre, Chatelet, S. Michel and the Jardin du Luxembourg heading south.
There are several other buses which depart from this stop. If you are interested, go to the ratp website and get up the Plan du Quartier for Gare du Nord.
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Answered my own question -- had to go into Paris for orientation for my job, so purposely went through Nord and Est to investigate.
without bags, it%26#39;s a 5-minute walk.
With bags, I%26#39;d give it 15 minutes, tops -- although there is a very long stairway to navigate...best with small bags only.
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WOW!!! Well done you. It%26#39;s funny as I have trained myself to translate the French on the signs I never noticed that it was also in english too. Next trip it should be easier to read.
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Not only is it worth bumping this up again, but there is a left luggage place at Gare d%26#39;Est. It at the end of the lower level, near Paul, and at the opposite end from the toilets. It worked very efficiently yesterday with only a couple of people ahead of me both in the mid morning and at about 5pm.
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