Meeting Your Trip in PARIS,
Returning to PARIS at the end
(on your way to and from the Mystery Trip)

This page offers help (concrete or informational) on reaching your trip. Topics include...

1. Where you Join Your Trip (see immediately below)
2. Our “Access Packages,” designed to help you to do so.
3. Suggestions on how to time your trip to the trip, whether you are having us arrange your travel, or doing it yourself.
4. Service information regarding train travel to your trip start location.

1. WHERE and WHEN Do You Join Your Trip? WHERE and WHEN Do You Resurface?

Your trip starts on Sunday morning from somewhere in the French provinces.  We will assemble at our Paris office early on Saturday afternoon to travel to the trip.  Our timing with be compatible with any flight landing in Paris by 10a.  If you are considering a later flight, let us know.  We will make it work, and will even pay for your dinner sandwich on the train, but you may miss sitting down with the rest of us for a rather better (but stationary) meal....

We will send you details on reaching our office from the appropriate airport or rail station (or from one of our usual hotels) if you tell us by what means you are arriving in Paris.

You will be back in Paris the following Saturday (the 21st), in time for a late supper (and in time for any ongoing travel on Sunday).  We are happy to set up Paris lodging for you, if desired.  If you are continuing to our “Emerald Coast of Brittany” trip, Saturday night’s lodging is included in the joint trip price.



2. Our ACCESS PACKAGES
as of January 10, 2010

Reaching the Trip
Train to the trip, in first class if the trip is long enough to justify that (2 hours or more), dinner on arrival, a hotel night, and breakfast in the morning, including a croissant.  Since it is impossible for you to judge the worth of the package, it is included in the trip.

Leaving the Trip
A train back to Paris, again in first class if that makes any sense.  This, too, is included in the trip price.

Options Offered at an Extra Cost (subject to availability)

• Tickets from / back to London.  138€ return, 99€ single.  Add 40€ in each direction if you prefer a changeable ticket.  Add 50€ in each direction for 1st class; 1st class tickets include meal service).
• If frequent flyer tickets bring you to another Euro capital, know that Brussels, Amsterdam, London, Frankfurt, Zurich and Geneva are all within 4 hours of Paris by train, their airports are linked to their city-center rail stations by direct shuttle train.  The Amsterdam - Paris train actually stops at Amsterdam’s Schipol airport.  We are generally able to get discount tickets on these routes.
  
• Paris airport train tickets, from Charles de Gaulle or Orly to Paris center.  Follow this link for details.
  

3. TIMING Your Trip

You will not have time to visit Paris on either Saturday (before or after the trip).  Allow for Paris tourism in the days prior to the trip start, or after the end.


4. Service Information
Schedules are approximate – exact timetables can be consulted at
http://www.raileurope.com/index.html
Best trains are mentioned.  Others are slower or have multiple connections.

• From London.  Trains are roughly hourly.  The Eurostar is marketed like a plane:  very different prices for different passengers occupying the same seats.  Typically, chances of obtaining discount fares are greater with early booking.
• From all other points.  There are a lot of trains to Paris.
  

If you wish to arrange some or all of your travel through us, please tell us what by means of this response questionnaire, designed to collect all the information we need to be able to book your travel.