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relax & drop off your car — maybe at the airport or a nice town — before you get to paris & taxi or train to your hotel. having 4 people makes the taxi cost efficient….do not drive in paris…why should you? do you need a huge hassle?

walk, use mass transit & taxis in the city…..

I was raised in New York City and London and lived in a variety of big cities so I am used to driving in crowded cities but I do not drive in Paris which can be very difficult.

In between all those beautiful broad boulevards pushed thru the city by Baron Hausman in the late 19th century there is a rabbit’s warren of narrow, twisting, medieval streets.

So if you do choose to drive into Paris be sure you have very carefully laid out your route to avoid any encounter with them.

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Driving in Paris is awful and ppl who are fine with driving in US big cities are terrified of driving in Paris. Even a C-class Mercedes is too big to maneuver comfortably in Paris and the C-class isn’t that big.

Driving in Paris is no harder than any major city. Parking in Paris is the problem. If you are to drive through Germany, Belgium and into Paris get a Sat Nav then you will have no trouble try here

I live in another major city in France, have a French license and drive all the time so I’m used to it and *I* don’t drive in Paris. This is someone who doesn’t bat an eye if a car in the right lane makes a left hand turn on a red light without signalling.

My husband, who is French, does insist on driving in Paris. That drives *me* nuts. He’s always getting lost and he’s visited about 10,000 times (we met in Paris). Worst of it is, he brings his own car, and all French cars are clearly marked with the “département” so we basically have the equivalent of a neon sign saying “We’re not local! **** us because we’re tourists!!”

Once they smashed the whole side of his car in while parked. Don’t even ask if they left a note!

Then again, if my own husband doesn’t listen to me when I say “leave the car, take the train”, why should you??

Hi. Pay no attention to all these naysayers who don’t even live in Paris!

Driving in Paris is fun. The streets are very wide and the rond-points are very fun to drive in.

It beats taking the metro which can be dirty, smelly, and dangerous. The metro also ***** cause you can’t see anything down in the tunnels.

Buses **** too because it takes FOREVER in a bus.

Driving is the BEST! Also, you can get outside of Paris VERY quickly by driving and you can go to places you could never go to on metro or buses.

Once you get the feel of driving in Paris/big cities, it’s not too bad. The only thing to worry about is parking. It’s expensive to park a car in a parking lot, and there are hardly any spaces unless you’re driving a super itty-bitty mini car like most of the French drive.