Paris metro service update

Whatever happens during a transportation strike in Paris, your driver will be there at the airport or your hotel waiting for you. We recommend booking these services in advance, especially during the Christmas holidays. Christmas in Paris and the last days of the year are peak season in Paris, with many people traveling. After a long flight, the last thing you want to do is to fight for getting a bus or a train to Disneyland Paris, especially if you are traveling with kids, seniors, or a lot of luggage.

The good thing about Paris airport transfers is that their service is not affected by the Paris strikes. Whatever happens during a transportation strike in Paris, your driver will be there waiting for you. If your flight is leaving Paris early in the morning, have a look at the hotels near your Paris airport, at least for the last night. Sleeping in hotels near the airport eliminates the stress of waking up early in the morning and the transportation hassle during a strike day in Paris.

Another advantage of hotels close to Paris airports is that they usually propose very competitive prices because most tourists opt for a hotel located in the city.

Hotels near Charles de Gaulle Airport. Hotels near Orly Airport. If you feel adventurous and want to travel from the airport to your hotel during a transportation strike, you need to check 2 things beforehand:. You will find this information at the beginning of chapter 6. Sounds complicated? During transportation strikes, some metro stations may be closed, so make sure you know where to stop to reach your hotel before taking the metro. Train stations in Paris are all within the city, so in normal circumstances, you will take the metro to reach your hotel.

However, during a RATP strike, metros will be less frequent, more crowded, and some metro stations may be closed. If you can change your booking, we recommend looking for a hotel near your train station, a hotel that you can reach on foot.

Pack light and save time and lots of stress with a hotel conveniently located near your train station. There will be fewer trains running during a Paris Metro strike, so the waiting time between trains will be longer, and the metro platforms will be more crowded. Avoid transportation peak hours from 8. If the weather in Paris is good, we suggest walking as much as you can.

Walking times between distant points within Paris are not long, and in many cases, walking distances between metro stations are usually less than a minute walk. TIP: Check out this metro map , with the walking distances between metro stations. If you are staying in the central arrondissements of Paris and the weather is good, you can also consider other alternatives to the metro, tram, or buses.

These alternatives include renting a bike check out our quick guide to Paris by bike , walking walking is great in Paris! What to do in Paris if you cannot move around? If you were considering seeing something other than Paris, a guided day tour with transportation could be a great idea during a day of transportation strike in Paris.

All the city tour companies cover the most popular day trips from Paris , so prices are usually very competitive. There are no transportation strikes in France or Paris directly linked to Gilets Jaunes, but some streets of Paris or roads around Paris might be blocked to transit because of the Gilets Jaunes. What does it mean? TIP : Allow more time for your travels inside Paris but especially on the way to the airport. Did you find our Strikes in France and Strikes in Paris article useful?

If so, share it with your friends through your favorite social media, thanks! Click here to read more Paris Tips. Quirky Parisian explorers with a preference for the lesser-known sights, we are continuously looking for new ideas and tips to bring you the best of the City of Light.

I need to leave from Paris to Bern, Swiss on 28May, as everything has been booked and can not be canceled, what is your suggestion as we hit the strike day? Thank you very much. Hi Jim! Are you traveling by train or with Air France?

Strike days does not mean that everything is blocked. Only a few flights or trains are canceled. The first thing to do is to check if your train or flight is affected and if so, check with the company what options you have. Good luck! Would like to know if buses run from Paris to the Disneyland Park.

If so will buses run during strike days? Hey Mari. Are these buses private buses or public buses? Do you know the company name? If so, the best way to find it out is by checking their website. Hi Jene! To check this, go to « manage my reservation » section to see the type of aircraft used for the flight.

Hi thanku for ur tips. We are travelling to Paris on 23 rd April strike day , will our connecting flight to Nice be affected. Are your connecting flight with Air France? If so, check if that specific flight is concerned or not it is explained in the post. If it is not an Air France flight there should be any problem. We are supposed to travel on 18th April which seems to be a strike date. Prioritize days without strikes, or consider guided day tours Versailles. Its genuinely remarkable article, I have got much clear idea regarding from this article.

We have booked train tickets from paris to zurich on the 28th April, which looks like is not gonna work. Can you suggest anything else.

Journey by bus seems very tedious and by flight very expensive. We have booked the bus. Travel dates not in a position to change becos all accomodation fixed and we are travelling to other countries as well. So looks like have to bear with the long bus journey. Have you heard anything about Air France strikes for the month of May yet? This site is fantastic. Thank you so much for the comprehensive, practical help! Geee, I wonder if anything has changed in Paris since I was there at 16 in Thanks for the information.

I will be travelling to Paris in the month of May this year. I wanted to know if the Paris metro also is on strike? Yes, they do operate but there are many metros and more cramped. Honestly, so far it was OK with metros as long as you stay out of the rush hours.

Thank you for your general tips. Any advice would be appreciated! Hi Kelly, somehow I missed your questions! We recommend shared or private transportation from the airport to the hotel. There are a couple of options in the post, if you may want to check. During a strike day, it can be anything. This obligation will apply to young people aged between 12 and 17 years from 30 September More information on how to get the health pass.

Visitors who have been vaccinated abroad and do not have a health pass with a QR code in the European format, or who are neither vaccinated nor able to show a European health pass in places where it is required see above can take an antigen test result in minutes or an RT-PCR test result generally available within 24 hours in Paris and anywhere else in France.

The tests must be paid for by people who do not have a French social security number. An antigen test can be taken in many pharmacies. All the testing centres are listed on the Covid testing sites map on the website of the French ministry of health and solidarity.

Since 26 October , tourists from outside Europe who have been vaccinated in their own country can also obtain their health pass in European format on arrival in France. This equivalence is to be requested in authorised pharmacies. These are located near international airports, Parisian train stations and in tourist areas of the capital.

From 9 June , travel to France is again possible, but entry conditions into the country quarantine, documents to be presented, etc. To find out more about the procedures that apply to you please visit the French government website. In order to ensure more comfort and the best possible protection for its travelers, RATP has been offering a service to monitor traffic in real time on its mobile application.

More information on transport. Travel between regions is permitted. Train and airplane departures may be cancelled. Consult the websites of the SNCF and the airline companies concerned for more information. In order to guarantee greater flexibility to its passengers, tickets purchased can be refunded or exchanged free of charge, according to the dates indicated on the carriers' websites.