For first-time visitors without much time, a bus trip is ideal to orient yourself if you don’t mind the groupstyle travel.
Paris Opentour is in comfortable double-decker buses, with a live or recorded commentary (in whatever language you want).
Use the Opentour Paris bus pass to discover the city for one or two days. You can buy your Opentour Paris Hop On/Off in advance and have it delivered to your home, your hotel, or a convenient pickup location in Paris if you’re renting an apartment.
Its soaring iron and glass domes visible from far along the river, the Grand Palais is another example of ambitious turn-of-century architecture. Built, together with the Petit Palais opposite, for the 1900 Universal Exhibition, it has since hosted hundreds of temporary fairs and arts salons. Its west wing, which opens onto the avenue Franklin Roosevelt, houses the Palais de la Découverte, a well-organized science museum that has a superb planetarium. The main halls on the east side exhibit art retrospectives and salons such as the FIAC, Paris’s annual contemporary art fair.
Don’t QueuUse the Paris Museum Pass to visit more than 60 museums and monuments in Paris without waiting in line. You can buy your Paris Museum Pass in advance and have it delivered to your home, your hotel, or a convenient pickup location in Paris if you’re renting an apartment.
