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Hotel & buying things

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Hi friends,
After a 7 day Viking Rhine river cruise, with family group of 5 sept-oct, 2025, my wife and I have 4 days, from Basel, Switzerland.
We will take a train from Basel to Paris. We will stay in Paris and visit Monet’s Giverny home. .
We both turned 60. Our last time in Paris, was 2012, with young kids.
Goal : relax, just our time together (so rare).
We have seen Effie’s tower, Rodin museum , louvre, Notre dame, river cruise on seine. , arc de triumph, champs Elysee.

  1. What experience do you have with Paris’ Best Western or Holiday Inn hotels? Budget wise, both are a match. $1000/4 nights.

  2. What particularly Paris shops sell Christmas French -made ornaments ? Make Garden things? Make paper stationary?

Merci,

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I have no experience with those hotels, and can only offer the advice that if you do some searching for stationary and art glass you should be able to find shops that offer what you're looking for. Shops in Paris do tend to stock items made in France. In Nancy I could be more specific as the the glass, but that city has a history for those items. For gardening tools you need only look as far as the local hardware, but the best of those will be outside the normal tourist routes.

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