Jim Clarke: Blog

I stayed at a place called Hotel Comfort Cardinal Rive Gauche in the centre of Paris recently. Although I believe that I booked the hotel on http://www.ratestogo.com, it has it's own web site at http://www.hotelcardinal.com. The hotel is a short walk (approx. 10 minutes) from the Port Royal RER B station, which is station following Luxembourg on the main RER B line from Paris CDG airport to the city. The hotel is also walking distance from the Luxembourg area, St. Michel vicinity and a lot of restaurants and night spots. One of the reasons that I selected this one was that the hotel had advertised air conditioning in every room, which was abslutely necessary the time I was there as it was very hot there. I was attending a conference that was being held at an airport hotel so it required a commute into and back from the airport every day, which wasn't a major problem except it used to take approximately 1 hour each way, depending on whether i stuck it lucky getting the express train. I still have not been able to figure out the coding scheme for the trains to determine which train is an express although I am sure there is some way to do it.