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Quinssa Travel Advice
Quins v Stade Francais in Paris 10th November
Making your own way
While a number of fans are going to be taking the package trip offered by Living With The Lions a number of fans are looking at making their own way to Paris for the match.
Train
Eurostar has some very good deals at the moment, check their site for the latest deals - they do train and hotel weekend packages which are on offer from about £100 per person at the moment. eurostar.com
Opodo.co.uk has been advertising three night Eurostar breaks recently so they may be worth checking out. opodo.co.uk
Flights
Flights are readily available from Heathrow, Gatwick, Southampton, Luton, London City, Stanstead - well pretty much any major airport really.
British Airways (britishairways.com) have return flights at £135.80
Air France (airfrance.com) have return flights for £92.60
Hotels
Central Paris
There are obviously huge numbers of hotels available (try searching on ichotelsgroup.com or ibishotel.com), the Living with the Lions group will be staying in the Burgundy Hotel which is right in the centre of town between Madeleine and Concorde - burgundyhotel.com
Some others have booked into the Queen Mary Hotel - hotelqueenmary.com
Porte de Saint Cloud
It is most likely that the game will be played at Stade Jean Bouin which is between Paris and Boulogne Billancourt so if you'd prefer your hotel to be closer to the ground here are some suggestions from the Stade Francais fans we met last time we went over:
Porte de Saint Cloud; which is 5 minutes walk from the ground
Les Jardins de Paris Boulogne - hotel-jardins-boulogne-billancourt.federal-hotel.com
The Hotel Les Jardins de Paris Boulogn - hotelsjardinsdeparis.com/boulogne
Hotel Emeraude Regina - hotels-emeraude.fr has very cheap deals on at the moment
Campanile Paris Ouest - Boulogne - webbooking.louvre-hotels.fr seem to have some very cheap offers too
Mercure Paris Porte de St Cloud - accorhotels.com/accorhotels/fichehotel
There are a lot of local hotels listed on sites-hotels.com
Drinking on the first night
For those who will be arriving on the Friday a few jars have been organised with the home fans from around 10pm at '"Rue de la Soif", just near Odeon (Métro MABILLON).
Rue de la Soif basically translates as 'Thirst Street' and is a favourite haunt of Stade fans, it's made up of three streets - Rue des Canettes, Rue Guisarde and Rue Princesse.
The bars in this area stay open until 2am but make sure you don't spend all your money on drink, the metro stops at 12:30.
Those who travelled over last time were very warmly welcomed by the Stade fans so I would recommend going over for this trip.
Living with the Lions Package
Quinssa have been approached by Living With the Lions who are a commercial tour company who provided a package for some members to go to Montpellier in the ECC last season and are now looking to offer a package to Quins supporters to Paris for the Heineken Cup game against Stade Francais Paris .
There is a three day offering for just under £200 but the seats can only be held for a few weeks.
livingwiththelions.co.uk/www/rugby1/Harlequins/Paris.htm
Should anyone be interested in purchasing a package to Paris please find the details of the package and the contact details of their Operations Manager below.
Brett Lingley | Operations Manager
80 Dorothy Road, Battersea, London, SW11 2JP, UK
+44 (0)20 7223 6650 | : brett@livingwiththelions.co.uk
Please Note: Quinssa have no commercial or other links with this company and any booking will be between yourself and them. However, as ever, we are happy to try and find as many alternative ways of possible of enabling our members to support the team
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