Early morning breakfast at Gare St. Lazare
Dec 12, 2012, 11:05 am
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Early morning breakfast at Gare St. Lazare
We will be taking a day trip to Caen to visit the D-Day museum take their day tour. What our the breakfast options like in Gare. St. Lazare at 6 a.m. in the morning? IIRC, the trains that go to Caen do not have any food service cars.
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Dec 12, 2012, 2:31 pm
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Just opposite the Saint-Lazare station:
http://operaparis.concorde-hotels.com/
Breakfast is at Eur 29
http://operaparis.concorde-hotels.com/
Breakfast is at Eur 29
Dec 14, 2012, 12:50 am
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Gare Lazare has been recently renovated into a mall, with not one, but several Starbucks and several other quick-bite food offerings. Nothing special but better than what you'd find on a train that had food service.
Dec 15, 2012, 6:55 am
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I did exactly this trip out of St. Lazare last week (the 7:15 train to Caen)
The Starbucks will be open for coffee and a small bite.
The small grocery store in the station lists on its door that it opens at 7am. When I did it was still closed at straight up 7 am on the nose. I had to board the train so I didn't check when it actually did open up.
I had packed a day lunch for us the night before. That "lunch" ended up being breakfast on the train with lunch becoming a bistro in Bayeux.
The Starbucks will be open for coffee and a small bite.
The small grocery store in the station lists on its door that it opens at 7am. When I did it was still closed at straight up 7 am on the nose. I had to board the train so I didn't check when it actually did open up.
I had packed a day lunch for us the night before. That "lunch" ended up being breakfast on the train with lunch becoming a bistro in Bayeux.
Dec 17, 2012, 3:38 am
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Unless you really want frozen / hugely calorific food.
Dec 17, 2012, 4:01 am
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(They can also be rather good for the lactose-intolerant milky-coffee-drinkers.)
*an entirely made-up statistic, based on casual observation on some warm days...