France Trip: Bonjour Paris!

Bonjour!

This time I will tell you about my last euro trip which's happened on the end of last year. I went to Paris from Jakarta using Malaysian Airlines (MAS). I choose MAS since it offered the lowest price with only 2 hours transit time in Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA), Malaysia.

However, after I entered the plane and took a seat around 15 - 30 minutes, the pilot spoke in the speaker mentioning that the plane would not take off that night due to the airport in Paris is full. He also said the plane will delayed about 4 hours. It was 00.00 a.m, which mean I had to wait until 4 a.m for the flight.

The airlines didn't offer any hotel whatsoever, so all passengers were sleeping in the waiting room, using the purple blanket that was lent by them.

my sleepy face after sleeping at the bench

When it was almost 4 a.m., the officer announced that the flight will be delayed to 10 a.m. and they just gave us few snacks as the breakfast. Since my traveling partner and I have already bored in the waiting room, we spend time walking around the terminal and duty free shops, then ended sitting near the window with nice view of airplanes in the morning.

morning view in KLIA

Fortunately they weren't lying again, so we did took off at 10.00 a.m. Frankly speaking, for flying about 13 hours, the in-flight entertainment was kinda sucks. Totally different from the in-flight entertainment during Jakarta-Kuala Lumpur that was hi-tech and sophisticated. In the long flights, we did not have any option of the show to be watched, just like watching blurry tv, with some channels that replaying the show over and over again. Really not recommend long flight with this airlines.

Finally we arrived at Charles de Gaulle airport at 07.00 p.m. Paris time. After taking our baggage, my travelling partner and I went to the tourist information center and bought our Paris Museum Pass and Paris Visit for 3 days. The information center was really helpful so don't worry if you have any questions about how to use the passes.

waiting for the baggage

our Paris Museum Pass

We took metro to Prince Hotel at Ecole Militaire. Since our hotel really close to Eiffel Tower, so after checked in, we took a walk to Eiffel. Actually we planned to spend the afternoon at the top of Eiffel tower and already bought the online ticket. Unfortunately the 10 hours flight delay made us had to let our Eiffel tickets went to waste since the tickets were for specific time only.

the view from my room's window

So here we go, enjoying the night around the Eiffel tower. During our stay in Paris, the UN Climate Change Conference COP21 was being held there. Therefore, the light show at Eiffel tower was replaced by the climate change theme. It's still beautiful anyway.

Bonjour Eifel tower!

taking a boat, anyone?

We walked to Palais de Chaillot to get better view of the Eiffel tower, and yes, the Eiffel tower looks majestic from up there.

Eiffel night view from Palais de Chaillot

Well, that's how I spent my first night in Paris. I'll share you more stories of this trip
in the next posts.



XOXO,
The Tourist