Paris Park and Ride?

MaryAnne · 6 March 2012 at 11:26AM

We're off to Berny Riviere at Easter and would love to do a day trip into Paris. I don't want to use the bus service from the campsite, nor do i want to take tha car into the centre of Paris (done both before and both were HELL!).
Last year we were in Holland and they have fantastic Park and Ride services in Amsterdam and I was wondering if anyone knew of any such facility in Paris.
I am happy to drive to the ourskirts and train into central Paris, and I have also heard of parking at the Village(??) shopping outlet and getting the train from there....
Has anyone done anything like this or heard of anything or even have any suggestions??
Any help would be apprecicated x

angelil · 6 March 2012 at 7:38PM

Interesting topic!

I live in France and am preparing to sit my French theory test at the end of April. According to the French theory book, Park and Ride does exist in France; it's called "Parc et Relais" (or "Parking et Relais"). However, I've never seen any advertised!

Googling means I've managed to find this map for you.
http://www.stif.info/IMG/pdf/plan_parc_relais_2003-2.pdf

It's not terribly recent though (2003!) which means either nothing's changed since it was made (but this is France, the land that's still stuck in the 70s...so this is likely

) or that you'd be able to get even more up-to-date information by contacting STIF (http://www.stif.info/pour-voyager-ile-france/les-parcs-relais-votre-gare-dot-/site-parcs-relais/choisir-son-parc-relais-1506.html)

It seems to have a lot of parking options listed, but I suspect some of them are just regular car parks, rather than the free/low cost park and rides we know and love in the UK.

There's also this link, but annoyingly it doesn't give you the chance to filter by "parc relais".
http://www.parking-public.fr/parking-paris.php

Hope it helps in some small way nonetheless!

This part of the site helps you choose your park and ride according to the station you'd want to travel into Paris from: http://www.stif.info/IMG/parcsRelais/carte-des-parcs-relais.html

Here's another, more helpful, site with a list of "parking et relais":
http://www.saemes.fr/parking/parkings_relais.php
Their list is very short though!

MaryAnne · 7 March 2012 at 8:25AM

That's fantastic, thank you so much for your reply.
I'll take some time to study the maps and sort out which station looks the best for us.
Many thanks xx

mrsg26 · 7 March 2012 at 10:00PM

We have been to Berny Riviere the last 2 years running and we drove to the Stade De France and parked there and got the train to NotreDame which was only a few stops away. It was relatively easy. Enjoy your trip..we love it there but as I love trying new places we are off to Bella Italia in June. Have a great time.