Find a hotel for shopping in Paris

There are about 1000 hotels in Paris downtown, and ile de france area. Which Paris hotel is for you? You can spend thousands of euros for one night in a luxurious hotel in Paris, you can also find a comfortable hotel room at about 50 euros per night. So, what hotel suits your need?


For most tourists, visiting to Paris for sight seeing, shopping, a hotel with comfort, offering good service, easy access by public transportation tools, are most important consideration.

Paris is proud of its public transportation network. Especially the Metro and RER, it reaches to almost all important monuments and shopping centers. Find a hotel near RER or metro station, will make your tour happy and easy.

GIS hotel Paris is located at Paris east, 100 meters from RER A station. From GIS hotel Paris, you can easily reach departments stores, commercial centers in Champs Elysée, in Opera, in La Defense, in Châtelete Les Halles, Val de Fontenay, Noisy le Grand, Torcy and Val d’Europe.

GIS hotel Paris offers standard rooms for one or two person, twin bed rooms for two persons, triple rooms for three persons, family rooms for four persons, all at reasonable rates, all with private bathroom, TV, telephone, you can also use internet free of charge at the lobby!

Paris fashion capital.

While talking about Paris fashion, we have to say something about the word “Haute Couture".

The term "haute couture" is French. Haute means "high" or "elegant." Couture literally means "sewing," but has come to indicate the business of designing, creating, and selling custom-made, high fashion women's clothes. In the history, “houte couture" was the symbol of Paris Fashion.

Buying Paris fashion is not necessary in Houte Couture shops, you can buy in department stores like Lafayette. But if you want to feel what Paris fashion means, you should be there.

There is a very famous street in Paris 8th arrondissement - Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honor. The Palace Elysee is on this street. On this street, there are many Houte Couture shops. The older generation foreigners might feel quite at home of the Haute Couture shops. Now, these Haute Couture shops are still existing, and they are still selling Houte Couture, but today at very limited volume: there are only 2000 women in the world buying Houte Couture every year. Houte Couture is not a profitable business today. Houte Couture companies are making money with their “byproducts" They are selling “prêt ?porter?--- ready to wear clothes, perfume and cosmetics, watches and jewelry, and so on. You can find top quality clothes, shoes, bags, and leather goods here. Though these are not real Houte Couture, the quality is guarantee, and the price is much lower than real Houte Couture. If you want to have a real feeling of Paris fashion, you should go to visit to these Houte Couture shops.

The street “Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré” is famous. The palace Elysee is also on this street.

So many shops are concentrating in this street.

In the street, Houte Couture shops are showing their prestige style. Their doors are not large. Does it mean that it is not open to masses?

Dior.

From the windows, you can see different style models.

Shopping a camera in Paris

Are you interested shopping cameras? Paris is a good place for you. There are numerous camera shops in Paris, selling new and second hand, traditional or digital, small format or grand format, various brand of cameras and other photography equipments.

If you are going to buy a camera for normally use, or just to see what photography equipment are available in Paris, you should first go to fnac. fnacs are large stores that originally a book store. But now, it sells computer and electronic appliances, video and audio products, and cameras. They also provide services in film development and prints.


There are several fnacs in the city center, for cameras, the one in Saint Lazar and the other in Chatelet are larger ones with all possibilities. fnacs not only sell new cameras and lenses, they also sell second hand. Sometimes you can find very good gadget in very good price. Because when they sell new equipment, they also take back your old stuff and it seems they do not earn money from resell second hand equipment.

There are many specialty photography equipment stores in Paris. There is even a photography street -- Blouvard Beaumarchais, beside Bastile. Just mention a little: Le Moyen Format, that is also official Rollei Dealer, Le Grand Format, La Maison de Leica, Le Numerique, Photo 40, Odeon, and so on. You can buy, you can rent, you can sell your equipment here. All stores sell new quipments as well as second hand. If you want to have your equipment repaired, this is place to go. Price is reasonable. Some times you can find a surprise.


The famous camera street is just near the Place Bastile. This pillar named "Colonne de Juillet". It is 50 meters high and includes a spiral staircase. It is built on the graves of the victims of the July Revolution and is engraved with the names of the 504 who died.


Leica maison, if you know cameras, you should know, or at least you should be able to guess what Leica Maison means.


Moyen Format means Medium Format. If you find some second hand 35 mm format equipment in very low price here, do not be surprised: perhaps they do not care these "cheap" gadgets.


Sell, buy, exchange, new or second hand, and reparations.


If you are really interested in photography equipment, you may be interested at a camera fair. Every year, on the first Sunday of June, there is a large open photo fair in a small town called BIEVRES. That day, collectors, dealers, ordinary camera fans go there from all over the world. shopping there is a great pleasure.


You can sell you cameras here like the lady.


You can find easily ancient camera at the foire BIEVRES.
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