How to Go from Paris’ Gare St.-Lazare Railway Station
to Our Office, or to our Guest Apartments, in the Same Building

Welcome to Paris. You have just stumbled off your train at the Gare St.-Lazare. Now you have to make your way to our office.

Our office is the glass doored commerce between the doors to numbers 2 & 4 of the rue Dussoubs, in Paris’ 2nd Arrondissement. The closest métro stop is Etienne-Marcel, on line 4, but there are two others almost as close: Les Halles, and Réaumur-Sebastopol. These instructions send you to Réaumur-Sebastopol, since that is on a direct line from the Gare St.-Lazare (line 3).

Here is a link to the Google neighborhood map. Note that the siting of the métro stations is not accurate, and should be ignored. However, the map accurately represents the streets.


To Reach Us — Generalities
...you will be taking the Métro.

Locating Your Train
Find your way into the underground station, clearly signed from the train concourse.

Purchasing Your Ticket
Once at the ticket window, or the automatic machines, buy a carnet de billets (pronounced “car-nay' duh bee-yea'” (don't pronounce the 's'). If you wish to say please, it is “see voo play,” is said after the “car-nay” stuff, and will be appreciated.) This is a batch of 10 tickets, valid for travel on all Paris métro and bus lines. Unless you are headed directly for the airport, you will have plenty of chances to use them. They are a bit more than half the price of single tickets, and we will take unused ones off your hands if you have extra when you leave town. The machines will label the tickets with part or all of the following words: Carnet de 10 billets, plein tarif (not demi-tarif”). They are sometimes called “Tickets T,” which is a brand name signifying that they are valid within the urban center, and not for travel to outer suburbs.

General notes about riding the métro:
  • Always keep your ticket until the end of your trip, since it can be inspected at any time by teams of roving tax auditors.
  • If you are worried about being on the correct platform, there is a sign at the center of each platform telling you in which direction the trains are travelling (the last station on the line defines the direction of travel).
  • There are strip maps of the individual line on which the train is travelling over each car door, to help you follow your progress through the system.

Making Your Trip

  • Go into the métro, and follow signs to line 3, Direction Gallieni.
  • Ride any train that comes on this platform, 6 stops to the Réaumur-Sebastopol station, riding at the rear of the train, or walking to the rear once you detrain.
  • Exit the station using the Sortie rue St-Denis, the exit which you find at the back of your train. This stair will spill you into the street on the rue Réaumur, walking against traffic.
  • Walk forward on the rue Réaumur, against traffic. The first left is the rue Dussoubs. Turn left onto this.

Our office is at the far end of the rue Dussoubs, 4 blocks away. It is on the left-hand side of the street, just past an open square called Place Goldoni. We are the unprepossessing (it’s your money) glass door between numbers 2 and 4.

Our normal opening hours are here.