Funfair JOURS DE FETE - Paris Grand Palais

Do you know the common between The Grand Palais and the Ferris wheel ?

- It is “Jours de fête” “Festive days” which will take place from December 18th to January 1st.
During this event the Grand Palais will be transformed in to a funfair with a Ferris wheel, a roundabout and a children’s space. It will be also possible to discover part of the Musée des Arts Forains collection. All with a music theme: Gipsy Jazz to celebrate Django Reinhart’s birth a hundred years ago (23 January 1910).
The Grand Palais is known for highlighting perfectly all its modern events. Jours de fête won’t be an exception the monument will be decorated with lights by F. Austerlitz…

Prepare 5 € per adult (3€ per children) for the entrance and 2€ to 4 € per attraction.
Jours de Fête – Grand Palais 8ème
December 18th to January 1st
From 11 am to 11 pm
Except on 24th and 31st December closing at 7pm

An other great event taking place on November at the Grand Palais is Quiksilver Tony Hawk Show

Metro : Franklin D. Roosevelt (lines 1 & 9), Champs-Elysées-Clémenceau (lines 1 & 13)
RER C, stop Invalides.
Bus lines : 28, 42, 52, 72, 73, 80, 83, 93
See the Grand Palais access map here
Prepare your stay with Regetel, 7 hotels in the heart of Paris

© Paris Tourist Office - Photographe : Marc Bertrand

SALON NAUTIQUE 2009

Dynamic and welcoming the Nautic is the best place to discover the new products for 2009/2010 concerning Boats (around 1400 models exhibited) and equipment (with a showroom dedicated to on pavilion 2.1).
Also present the tourism organisations will give you a short view for your future holidays.
In 2009 don’t miss “Cuisine à Bord”, or how to cook when you are on the sea. Every day a chef and a skipper will give you tasty and easy recipes as if they where on a cruise!

For professionals the Nautic is a very important place to be. It welcomed around 260 000 visitors in 2008.
It seems that 40% of the individual visitors come to the Nautic with the intention to make a purchase.
This year there will be 1200 exhibitors and 1400 trademarks.

NAUTIC 09

From Saturday 5th December to Sunday 13 December 2009
Opened every day from 10 am to 7 pm
Late opening on Friday 11th until 10pm

Place :
Parc des expositions de Paris - Porte de Versailles
Paris 75015
Pavillons 1, 2, 3 et 4
Metro (line 12), Bus (39 et 80 ) Tram T3, Stop : Porte de Versailles

Entrance Fee : 13€
Reduced fee (16-18 years) : 7€
Free for children under 16.

Prepare your stay with Regetel : Hotel Yllen Eiffel is about 15 min from Porte de Versailles.

ASTERIX IS 50 YEARS OLD

Do you know Asterix ?
He is a Tiny Gaul comic hero published for the first time on the Pilote review on October 1959.
He lives on 50BC in the village of indomitable Gauls that resist again and again to Cesar and the Romans.
The best thing to know him is to read one of his albums along which he travels around the world to help other countries. You can also watch Asterix & The Vikings movie.
Actually if you do not want to leave your computer now you can visit Asterix web and Asterix Blog where you’ll find lots of information about Asterix, Obelix and the events organized for their 50th anniversary.
Until January 3rd about 30 comic artworks are exhibited at
The Musée de Cluny
6, place Paul Painlevé
75005 Paris
Métro Cluny-La Sorbonne (line 10), Saint-Michel(line 4 & RER B) & Odéon (lines 4 & 10)
Fare : 8 €

Valérie (from Hotel des Nations Saint Germain) visited the Parc Asterix read her comment

BORN IN THE STREETS – GRAFFITI

Exhibition until January 10th
FONDATION CARTIER
261 Bd Raspail
75014 Paris
Metro : Denfert Rochereau (lines 4 et 6 RER B) et Raspail (line 6)
Open every day from 11am to 8pm

Take advantage on your stay in Paris to go and Visit this great Exhibition!

In and out of the Fondation Cartier building the exhibition shows Graffiti’s evolution from its beginnings in the New York streets. You can have an idea visiting their web, which presents videos, and a presentation of the artists shown.

Also on December Fondation Cartier organises two special events : On December 8th signing of the catalog Born in the Streets by Seen the famous New York one of graffiti’s pioneers.
On December 11th and 12th WK Interact will create a unique work for the garden of the Fondation Cartier.

Anais from Regetel visited the exhibition and left her comment on Sophie’s Blog

120 years celebration continues at the Eiffel Tower !

From tonight October 22nd to December 31rst the Eiffel Tower offers a new light display.
This colourful show will take place on the Trocadéro façade at 8pm, 9pm, 10pm and 11pm just after the 5 minutes sparkling lights. It will last 12 minutes recalling the extraordinary construction of the Tower with lights, movement.

If you wish to know more, we invite you to visit the Eiffel Tower Web

We will be there as soon as possible and offer you some pictures !

© Paris Tourist Office - Photographe : Amélie Dupont

Cannes Exhibition : Cannes and the Sea

Exhibition until June 25 2010
This exhibition recalls the importance of the sea on the city life from the middle ages to the 20th century. It shows mostly documents and pictures form the city archives as well as few objects borrowed to Menton’s Museum and individual owners.
The event is flanked by a roving exhibition on loan from the Departamental archives : “The Alpes Maritimes’ coast and people from the 16th to 20th century” from October 15th to March 18th 2010.

At Espace La Calmette
18 rue du Dr Calmette
06400 Cannes

A part of the exhibition takes place at Villa Montrose
9 avenue Montrose
06400 Cannes

Opened from Monday to Friday 1.30pm to 5 pm
No entrance fees

Prepare your stay with Regetel, Hotel Rachel is located in the heart of Le Cannet, about 10 min drive from Cannes.

Paris Exhibition : LOUIS COMFORT TIFANY COLOURS AND LIGHT

The Musée du Luxembourg presents an exhibition organised by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts : LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY COLORS AND LIGHT
Louis Comfort Tiffany is an American artist known worldwide as interior designer and glass maker. This exhibition shows 160 works which reveals the contribution of this creator to the glass industry as to the decorative arts.

Musée du Luxembourg
19 rue de Vaugirard

75006 Paris
Informations : 33 1 45. 44. 12. 90
e-mail : info@museeduluxembourg.fr
Metro station : Saint Sulpice (line 4) Odéon (line 4 and 10 ) RER B Luxembourg stop.

The museum opens everyday :
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 10.30 am to 7pm
Monday and Friday from 10.30 am to 10 pm
Saturday, Sunday and Bank Holidays from 9h30 am to 8 pm

Public Fares : 11 € (Children under 10 are free).
Audio guide (English) 4.50 €
You can book a special ticket to cut the line (billet coupe fille) 12 € + 2 €

Prepare your stay in Paris with Regetel: It is easy to go to Luxembourg museum from Hotel Yllen Eiffel with Bus line 89. From Hotels Corona Opera and Touraine Opera with Bus line 85. Hotels des Nations St Germain and Residence Villa Daubenton are about 20 min walk from the museum.

Pictures copyrights : The Corning Museum of Glass / Yuri Molodkovets / The Detroit Institute of Art

Veihlan at Versailles Palace

Until December 13th 2009

Xavier Veihlan is exhibiting at Versailles Palace several works created specially for this event.
You will discover Le Carrosse (The Coach ) at the Cour d’Honneur when arriving to the Palace.

To know more about the exhibition click here.

If you wish to know more about this artist click here
Opening hours for the Chateau
Until October 31st
Palace
Every day except Mondays
9 am – 6.30 last admission: 6 pm
Gardens
Open every day
7 am – 8.30 pm for pedestrians
From 1 November to 31 March
Palace
Every day except Mondays
9 am – 5.30 pm last admission: 5.pm
Gardens
Every day except Mondays
8 am – 6 pm

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Picture Copyright : Virginie Marielle