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Anyone been to Paris

Stupidly busy, expensive (£7 a pint on the chance elysee), terrible food (forget what the frenchies think, most of their food you wouldn't give to a dog unless you hated it), mainly due to poor quality meat and an insistence on serving everything next to raw. Toilets are still often a hole in the floor, which in 2011 is unacceptable. The people are rude, and arrogant. The restaurants close at lunch time (same throughout France). Bars have different tariffs on whether you are standing at the bar, sitting but getting your own drinks, or being served at table (beware, if you sit at table the bill can be pretty gobsmacking). Can't get near the Eiffel tower (that said I get vertigo standing on a chair), r the louvre, and did I mention how blommen rude the frenchies are?
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Nope, love Buenos Aires, Munich, (in fact almost any German town) , Barcelona, Venice, Lille, Boston, and heck, push the boat out, I even like Edinburgh.
 
Me and Mrs SS2 had a great weekend in Paris in 2005. Ok, the food is not great and is grossly overpriced and the people can be rude and the booze is expensive... but it was worth it for the Moulin Rouge show, the Louvre (set aside a whole day..) and the awesomeness of the architecture.

Having said that, we went to Rome in 2009 and it was like Paris x 4.
 
went a few year ago with ex on a romantic trip.... food was pants, wanted a stella and could only get heineken!!!! (in a female type glass aswell grrr), saw rats running across the road but... the sacre couer was good, the louvre (especially Napoleons apartments) and the river tour were quite memorable

wouldnt go back tho as done it once and thats enough tyvm :)
 
Never been and I don't think I fancy it, dunno why.
Been to Bruges and that's really lovely.
Also, Barcelona is a fantastic city. If I wanted to take the wife on a romantic week-end it would definitely be to Barcelona.
Wouldn't cost much more than Paris I wouldn't expect, hopping on a sleazyjet together with the lower (just) prices of drinking and dining out.
Been twice, and had a fantastic time both times. Barcelona has everything. If you want it buzzing it buzzes like nowhere else on earth but also has everything you could possibly want for a romantic weekend break.
 
I absolutely love Barcelona.

Been there myself and there is just so much there.

We did the aquarium which was amazing, went out and checked out all the Gaudi architecture, went to the fountains which were awesome, and best of all, went to the Nou Camp for the tour and all that.

Really want to go there for a boys weekend with a game thrown in or hopefully even better would be to go on tour with our crowd if we get them in the champions league.
 
I've been quite a few times and its been great or terrible.
I would add the good times have been when i spoke pretty good french after living in Normandy for 2 years. The tourist area's are a rip off as they are anywhere. One piece of advice though don't drive. Parisians are the worst drivers in the world. :D
 
Another vote for Barcelona.

Oh, and watch wear you tread, all those stupid little french dogs have to crap somwehere, and it's usually all over the pavements.
 
Hotel Arts (Artz?) in the marina. Not hugely central, but a proper hotel. The marina is nice too.

Las Ramblas is thge touristy shopping area. Beware pick pockets (rife n Barca).

La Sagrada Familia is awesome, just don't be put off by the scaffolding, they still haven't inished it yet. After 100 years.

Food is excellent, so's the wine.
 
Barcelona mate went in september lovely place did the tour think we payed 259 for 4 days with flying from liverpool did the nu camp as well the best football ground food was spot on and not over priced as it was in france the year before defo Barcelona :D :D :D
 
Barca was pretty nice, but the Ramblas was uber crap, and full of shifty looking characters, rife with pickpocketing.
Mediaeval area was good, and Harbour nice too. Sagrada was fantastic, although climbing down the stairway in one of the towers was not for the faint hearted.

If it were me, I'd consider Palma, Florence, Seville, Budapest, Tallinn, or a host of other places before I'd consider Paris or Barcelona again.
 
Tallinn................Now ya talking!!

A superb,beautiful city that can be walked from one side to the other in no time at all.Been twice and would go again but probably in the summer as the twice I have been it has been -15 and hoying it down with snow and by Christ was it cold!!

Not cheap though,maybe ever so slightly cheaper than here but loads and loads to see in a great wee city.

Seville is a great shout too,loved it there,tapas to die for and a great city for sightseeing just don't do what I did and go in mid August....yes it was quiet but it was quiet for a reason.....the extreme of Tallinn's temperatures! :eek:
 
I took the Mrs to Milan for her birthday a few years ago and she loved it. lots of shops, plenty of historic sites to visit too. Food was pretty good and they have the opera.
 
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