About My Paris Travel

What this site is

Eighteen sights in Paris, one page each, and eleven sections on how the city works: arriving at two airports and six great stations, getting around by Métro, RER, bus, bicycle, boat and on foot, reading the spiral of the arrondissements, the river, the seasons, what to eat, where to stay, what to book ahead, routes for one to five days, and the day trips beyond the ring road. There is also a journal of longer answers to the questions visitors ask most.

Every page tries to answer what a visitor actually needs: what a place is, what you see when you get there, how to visit it, what to combine it with, and where a well-known story is a legend rather than a fact.

It is not a listings site. There are no opening hours, admission prices or fares anywhere on it, because those change, and the monument or the operator is the only source that is right on the day you travel.

What Paris means here

This site keeps to the city of Paris itself: the twenty arrondissements inside the ring road, with the woods of Boulogne and Vincennes on either side. Versailles, Giverny, Fontainebleau, Chartres and Saint-Denis are close and much visited, but they lie outside the city, and they appear on the day trips page rather than as sights of Paris. The business district of La Défense, just beyond the western edge, is likewise outside the city line.

How it is written

Each page is built from sources that are named at the foot of it, and the facts in it, such as dates, heights, distances and who built what, are checked against those sources before the page is published. Practical rules, such as which sights must be booked and which turn away luggage, are checked against the monuments' own websites. Where the sources disagree, the page says so or leaves the number out.

My Paris Travel is written and maintained with the assistance of AI, edited and fact-checked before publication. Anything wrong is worth pointing out, and will be corrected.

The photographs

Every photograph comes from Wikimedia Commons and is credited on the page it appears on, with the photographer's name, the license and a link to the file.

They are chosen by looking at them: recent rather than archival, showing the place the page is about, and captioned from what is actually in the frame. Many files labeled Paris show another town of the same name, a replica elsewhere in the world, or a street in the suburbs, so each one is checked before it is used. The Eiffel Tower appears only by day: its night lighting is protected by copyright.

What it costs you

Nothing. A few planning pages carry affiliate links, marked as such before the first one, and the privacy page explains what that means. No page about a sight carries one, and nothing on this site is recommended because of a commission.

This site does not sell anything, take bookings or reservations, handle payments or hold tickets or rooms. Any booking you make through a link on it is a contract between you and that travel company, under its terms; this site is not a party to it and has no responsibility for it.