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When you make your hotel booking, don’t forget to ask if they are prepared to accept your pet, and if so, subject to which conditions. The charge can vary from hotel to hotel but usually ranges from €5 to €15 per animal. Be as precise as possible, because a hotel may refuse dogs over a certain size for example. As far as guide-dogs are concerned, they are accepted, by law, in all hotels and may also give rise to a supplementary charge. An advanced search on our web site will narrow your choice down to those hotels who welcome pets
All information is offered in several languages, it is compulsory for hotels with 2** and above to be competent in at least one foreign language, most commonly English. In most types of accommodation, English is used as a matter of course and you should have no difficulty with understanding
In France, the norm is 220 volts, 50 cycles, while in the United States or Canada, for example, it is 110 volts, 60 cycles. Voltage and sockets vary from country to country and so an adapter and also a transformer will be indispensable in order to keep your favorite electric razor or hair dryer in working order – not to mention to avoid blowing the electricity in the whole hotel!
Hotels and apart hotels may place safe deposit boxes at your disposal either in your room or at the reception: very useful for keeping your jewelry and other valuables safe! You could also keep a copy of your identity documents here, helpful in case you should lose the originals. The hotel is responsible for valuables entrusted to them by their guests. In the event of theft or damage, the hotel’s liability is automatically incurred – although the level of compensation will vary.
You come from abroad and don’t speak French? In Paris, you will usually find someone who speaks a smattering of English, which is the leading foreign language studied at school in France. Numerous efforts are made to guide you in Shakespeare’s language, and even in German, Spanish, Italian or Japanese, particularly in the tourist areas, hotels, museums and monuments, public transport or department stores. Paris does everything to help you feel at home here.
Among the addresses you will find in the pages of our web site, most are situated in one of the twenty “arrondissements”, or districts, of Paris and others, further afield, in one of the 8 “départements” in the Paris region.
The majority of non-smoking rooms are available in hotel chains. As yet few hotels in Paris provide non-smoking rooms for their guests, so clients can smoke in their rooms at their discretion, except if there is a sign specifically prohibiting it. Hotels must ensure ventilation standards are complied with. As for the communal areas, breakfast room, reception, and corridors: these are usually non-smoking. As a rule, youth hostels are entirely non-smoking.
High season is between 1st April and 31st October. Cruises on the Seine river also operate more regularly and offer an extended timetable during this period. Low season is from the 1st of November till the 31st of March.
That depends on the museum, it is best to make inquiries at each museum beforehand.