Châtelet les Halles — Local services in Paris

This review is about the subway. The lack of elevators is a shame and insulting to those who are unable to use stairs. While finding elevators in the shopping center is quite easy (yet still requires a queue due to others who are apparently too lazy even to use the escalators and not willing to allow those who genuinely need the elevators to go first...but that’s another story), there are either none or no clearly accessible escalators in the subway. We were in too much of a hurry to go hunting for this elusive elevator and had to carry and slowly aid members in our group down crowded stairs. There was one transit staff member who attempted to help, but we know it's not their job to carry passengers down flights of stairs. It's great that there are working elevators down to the subway station but if you can't actually get to your train then what's the point? I don't know how those with mobility impairments get around without help. You'd need someone to lift the wheelchair just to get on the train. I'm surprised we made it on the right train. With looking for an elevator, to giving up and carrying people downstairs, we didn't have much time to search for the...

Welcome to Paris! I came back to the heart of Paris, this time as a tourist with my family. We were accosted by a group of 8-10 young teenage girls that looked European, ie skin very white. 4 of them separating our family group on the escalator, cutting in. I think nothing of it first. I was behind them. But when we entered the next elevator with luggage and stroller, after our family got in, the same girls squeezed in and kept pushing and telling us w sign language to move back into the elevator. We kept telling them there was no room, they kept squeezing in. I told one of them “ get out , you can walk” with sign language … This whole encounter lasted a good 60 sec when my husband realized someone tried to unzip his pant side pockets un successfully. That’s when they retreated. Be extremely on the lookout because they blend in well and don’t expect that the bad is always distinctive. They looked white, clean, well groomed like any teenager just out for a social fun day. That’s the current Paris! It hasn’t changed in 35 years since the last time I lived...

Horrible horrible metro station in the middle of Paris, dirty AF and like some sort of dark, dingy dungeon which trains and commuters happen to enter. Once you get above the platforms it turns into a labrynth which is incredibly poorly signposted. Asked for information from a guy at the desk who could tell I was lost with two young children; incredibly unhelpful. Got even better when an extremely rude french lady kicked my suitcase for being in the way on the travelator. In London we would just punch you straight in the face for such behaviour. Thankfully this is not my impression of all french people. None of the lifts on the platforms work either. Fancy shopping mall at the top is almost disgraceful when you contrast with the state of the metro underneath and some of thr deprevation you see. Never wish to go here again and certainly not get stuck here with the kiddies....