We were out of the hotel at 8:20 to catch the Metro to get us over to the Eiffel Tower. We had a tour booked for right when they opened. It is very different from the last time I was here with the brothers about 12 years ago… The area under and around the Eiffel Tower is all enclosed now. You can’t just walk under it anymore. You have to pass through security to get into the area. It doesn’t cost anything for that part.
We met our tour guide Frederick and the rest of our group, which ended up being 12 people total. It was quite the mix… the three of us, a single lady from Germany, a single guy from the Netherlands, and a group of two families from India with two young children. We were on the first elevator to the top of the tower which was awesome. We got lots of pics with no one else in our way and then it slowly got busier and busier as more elevators arrived. Frederick said there are two sides of the tower… “the windy side, and the good side”. We definitely found that to be true… Especially on a 50 degree day.
We spent time at the very top, 906 feet in the sky, but the best parts were the second and third third levels, 187 and 377 feet. From lower, all of Paris was in front of us. It was a great end to our time in Paris to see all the places we went from the Eiffel Tower view.
From the Eiffel Tower we took our last Metro ride back to the hotel We checked out and headed to the airport for our flight to Rome. They had a decent cold meal for the two hour flight. We got our shuttle to the airport hotel no problem and ended the day (as we often do) at the hotel bar looking forward to boarding the cruise ship and unpacking our suitcases tomorrow!
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