1st day: arrived at CDG in the morning, took train to hotel in the heart of paris near luxomberg...great place to be...surrounded by resturants, live at night, good area, a bit expensive hotels but can find good deal. I booked 1 week b4 my trip in mid-may'04, could get deal for $130/day in a 4 1/2 star Hotel luxomberg on Expedia.
we got reday, had lunch in near by rest and took underground to effile tower.
yes buy more train tkts together..comes out cheap. I think if u buy around 20 tkts it cot 1 euro/tkt.

b4 going to effile tower we enjoyed gardens downstairs. If you can buy tkts online for tower, you will save some time as it costed us atleast half an hr and than another half hr to take flight up. we also enjoyed walking from 1st to 2nd level...its fun as long as u do not mind clmbing stairs.

as suggested in many articles and online, we decided to be on top of tower in day time and stay till night. both the views have its own pleasure.
do not forget to take some warm cloth so u can be up for long.

2nd day: we wanted to view Arc-de tromhe also in day and night view so we started and ended day at same place, but I think it was waste of time.

we went arc de tromphe in the morning and walked to Port Alexander 3, it is great walk..suggested by many authors. on the way 1st great resturants, than real;ly best shops...you can walk around some of them...all r real expensive and many designerwears...was fun going there.

than we walked ahead and took boat-ride which takes u all around city. It was fun and relaxing after walk. there are some rides takes place in the night with dinner n all, but being vegetarian that was not suitable to us. I am not sure how is night exp, but w eenjoyed day-ride n I will say plz do not miss on this.

after the boat ride, took underground and went back to Arc de tromph, had dinner in one of those French rest. best part is both of u seat side-by-side facing the people in open air. It was good experience. after dinner walked up to Arc and enjoyed night view, spend some time up and that was end of Day 2.

we wanted our trip to be preety relaxing, but could have added one of the museam visit by either cancel walk in the city or by making our day longer, but opted not to do so.

3rd day: We began morning at Notre-dame. there was a big que too in order to buy tkts and go up. I am not really sure if you can buy those tkts in advance. 1st went up, saw the big bell and than view from up. i would not say it was greatest. came down. Inside the church great stain-paintings. outside-great carvings. I liked inside part better here.

on the way we took some handy lunch and went to Lovre museam. Find out ways to get into Lovre quickly by avoiding entry from main entrance...can buy tkts in advance..will save some time. We took a guided tour..was very helpful..take u to all main areas and than u r on ur own.

I love going to museums, but my husband don't so we kind of took only guidede tour. Also, we did not go to d'orsay ...but if u r really interested so go. as louvre and d'orsey are most recommonded. I would also go to picasso if get chance.

in the evening on our way back, we went to luxomberg gardens near by hotel and than came back to Hotel ..got ready and went to Moulin Rouge. It is most recoo so we choose ...but there are many others which are good. You can also choose to have dinner. It is a bit exp, but worth the exp to remeber paris trip for life time. cost atleast half an hr to recah there from mid-city.

4th day: left in the morn for versailles. It takes around 1 hr to go there. It is great well not as good as buckingham, I mean inside palace is not very well-mainatined. Hall of mirror was also not as grt as we see in pics, but they were repairing it when we wnet, so hopefully it is better now. last gallary where they have lots of great paintings is really good. best part of this place was gardens. unfortunately you will have to buy seperate tkts to go in the gardens, but it is really worth it.

After this we had late lunch and went back to city. spend evening visiting some gardens and shopping and saying good-buy to city.

5th day: morning left for CDG and took flight ....

Paris is great city to be. we are city-lovers, can easily spend some more days and I bet you will have romantic memories for life-time.

also enjoy coffee, breads,pies and many other bake items

enjoy alot

hope this will help