Paris City Break
Four unhurried days of museums, cafés and riverside walks through the heart of the French capital.
- Common scams — 'found' gold ring, petition clipboards, Sacré-Cœur bracelets: On the approach steps below Sacré-Cœur, men force 'friendship' bracelets onto wrists and then demand payment, usually in a group — take the side stairs or the funicular and keep walking. The gold-ring trick (someone 'finds' a ring, insists it's yours, then wants money) and clipboard 'petition' teams (one distracts while an accomplice picks your pocket) work the Eiffel Tower, Louvre and Tuileries. Ignore the rigged cup-and-ball / three-card games along the Seine. Pickpockets hit Métro Line 1 and RER B toward the airport hardest.