Hello, here are some advises. - for getting around, use the metro, it is cheap compared to taxis and relatively fast. - for the stay, well, try to avoid a period when there is a 'salon of' in town, like the Salon de l'Automobile or any event related to a Salon, when there are Salon's in Paris : Hotel prices are reaching top prices like 300 euros per night for a quite ordinary hotel. If you want to find a good hotel, the best is to use 'Guide du Routard' hitchhiker guide type of book : USE books not the internet. A second thing too: If you use booking.com , these guys charge 10-15% of the price per day to the hotel to be on the internet, the good thing to do is (they will just like you a lot for that), find the hotel, take the phone number and dial yourself to the hotel and just reserve the night over the phone, the old and good fashion way. - For restaurants : well there are a lot, there is one quite decent at the Musée D'Orsay not too expensive and nice decor or you could try one of those famous 'brasseries' , like the Brasserie Bofinger, I wanted to go there last time I was in Paris but I could not, time was limited : https://www.yelp.fr/biz/brasserie-bofinger-paris?osq=brasserie+typique also the famous brasserie Lipp : https://www.yelp.fr/biz/brasserie-lipp-paris-3?osq=brasserie+typique a good one, I went there once. In general terms, use the restaurants where there is an institution like the Musée D'Orsay or at the Louvre, it is not top but much better than using randomness to find a good restaurant. Do not rely on large audience web sites like trip advisor : most of the comments are generated by people paid for doing just that, it is largely spoiled by fake comments. ... use books : Of course there is the Michelin Guide to Paris you could buy, but you will have to do some serious reading, - If you want to see the classics : Use the Bateau-Mouche, long and flat boats : but do not use the lunch aboard , it could be expensive and deceiving in quality. With those boats, you will see Paris nicely if you do not want to walk too much. - In the metro : be low profile and check yourself for pickpockets, be always on your guards in the metro and also large known places like in front of the Eiffel Tower : Place du Trocadéro, be on your guards. - Places to visit or not : the famous pi room at the Palais de la Découverte, don't waste your time going there, go to see the 'Grand Palais' expositions, or the Petit Palais expositions or the Musée D'Orsay, if you intend to see the Louvre, be aware that it take you nn days to visit all, after 3 hours you will be exhausted by seeing all these marvels and walking. Incredibly, at the musée D'Orsay, there are paintings on some walls where the paintings are worth millions of dollars just on one side of the wall. Have a nice stay, Simon Plouffe