On Jun 27, 9:13 pm, CL <flot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> John W. wrote:
> > I will be in Paris on Aug. 24th and 25th. Anybody have a
> > recommendation for a decent, relatively inexpensive, yet secure (since
> > I'll have my laptop) hotel/inn/hostel?
>
> Do you have a set of numbers that "relatively inexpensive" falls
> between?  And, do you know enough about Paris to know about where you
> want to be located?  There are a couple of people I can ask but no
> guarantees that they'll have any ideas.
>
I was intentionally vague because, while it really annoys me when
people do that on the travel forums I frequent, it also gets a wider
array of responses as people try to fill in the gap. If I could spend
less than $100 I'd be really happy.

> BTW, you DO KNOW that Paris is a stinking shithole in the heat of
> Summer, yes?  Something to do with the fact that everyone's back yard
> was a latrine for 1,800 years before they got plumbing and Ille de
> France is in some sort of geological situation like a huge rock soup
> bowl where everything that has ever died and fallen in the goop since
> the beginning of time has been preserved and rots slowly.
>
Here's the 'why Paris' bit. In August I'm going to Chennai, India to
train some Indian PhDs (or some such) how to do my job, and I decided
to work in a layover on the way back. I wanted to use either a
Northwest or United partner so I can get the miles. Our corporate
travel agent couldn't get me the flight through Brussels that I
wanted, the Frankfurt flight was too expensive (and I didn't want to
go to Frankfurt), the London flight is on American, and I didn't want
to go through Doha in the Middle East. That left Paris. I might
actually get out of the city; an old, old friend lives south of Paris
and I've emailed him. I might not go to Paris itself if anyone has
another suggestion; I've been twice in the last 20 years.

John W.