Find helpful guides and travel accessories for your trip to Paris
Tours, Museum Passes, and Metro Passes
Paris Museum Pass
Paris Visite Pass (Paris Metro pass)
Skip the Line Eiffel Tower Tour
Skip the Line Louvre Tour
Paris Hop On/Hop Off Open Top Bus Tour
Palace of Versailles Tour
Paris Segway Tour
Eurostar London to Paris Rail Pass
France Rail Pass
Paris Apps
Metro Paris Subway
Use this officially licensed app to get around on the Paris Metro. Find the nearest Metro station from any location, type in a destination and get Paris Metro directions, and use the Journey Planner to find the best route.
Paris Map Offline
A Paris map app that works without WiFi
Zagat To Go
Locate restaurants in Paris and other cities, in online and offline mode. Find restaurants near you and even browse menus in the iPad version.
Michelin Paris Restaurant Guide
Ultralingua French / English Translation Dictionary
Rick Steves’ Louvre Tour
Rick Steves’ Orsay Museum Tour
Paris Guidebooks
Michelin Guide Paris 2010 – If what you eat in Paris is important to you, you need this guide. Includes budget options and non-French cuisine as well.
Mona Winks – My favorite art/history guidebook, by Rick Steves. His amazing guide to the Louvre that makes it much less overwhelming.
Rick Steves Paris – Again, Rick Steves is my favorite guidebook author because he has a way of making history and art very accessible. If you don’t know Paris very well, you might want to study this in advance to get an idea of what there is to do and see. Or take the Kindle edition of Rick Steves Paris with you.
Paris Travel Supplies
PacSafe Travel Safe – Use this portable travel safe to store your passport, extra credit cards, cash, iPod and other small valuables that you don’t want to carry on your person every day. Great for hotel rooms that don’t have a safe.
Laptop Lock or iPad lock – Use this to lock your laptop or iPad to something sturdy when you head out for the day.
Ladies DSLR Camera Bags – You can carry one of these fashionable, discreet camera bags without anyone knowing you have a DSLR camera on you. You can put your regular purse stuff in them too.
Eurosurge Travel Adapter / Surge Protector – I love this little gadget. It has two sockets so that I can charge my phone and laptop, or my laptop and camera battery at the same time. It has a built in surge protector too.
Door Alarm – This door stop alarm provides me with extra peace of mind. It’s great for hotels and for Paris apartments.
Small Battery Operated Carbon Monoxide Detector – This little detector has a kickstand, so you can sit it on the floor near wherever you’re sleeping, where it’s best suited to detect carbon monoxide. You might not have even thought about this, but why not take a small step to prevent an easily preventable tragedy.
Small Smoke Detector – Smoke detectors (détecteur de fumée) are not required by law in French apartments until 2015. Paris hotels with more than 100 beds are required to have smoke detectors starting in January 2012, but that law was just passed in October 2011. Count on it taking a little time for hotels to get up to code. (Very small hotels and B&B’s are exempt for now.) To be safe, take your own battery operated version smoke detector to Paris.
