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Paris CDG to Champs de Mars area

We arrive in Paris on Fri., April 15, around 10a.m. from the US, if the gods are smiling. What's our best way to get to the upper 15th without a gazillion stairs? Closest Metro station is La Motte-Picquet Grenelle. Open to train/bus/Metro/combo; quick travel time isn't primary (though nice, natch), but ease with baggage is. Cost's importance is somewhere in between - we typically pinch pennies, but with bags & tiredness, not so much. Thanks!

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I suggest a taxi for this trip. It is a fixed price of 58€. Go to the taxi stand. Do not accept offers for rides from anyone who approaches you. Write the exact address including the postal code on a piece of paper along with the price and hand it to the driver after saying bonjour. By mass transit, take the RER B from CDG to Denfert-Rochereau and change there for Metro Line 6 (direction Etoile) and exit at La-Motte-Piquet-Grenelle. There are other routes. This one and all the others that I know of will require you to manage stairs. Not a gazillion mind you but at least a flight or two. At Denfert-Rochereau, for example, the RER is below ground and Line 6 is above ground. I think mass transit or a taxi will take roughly an hour.

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I agree with JHK. This is one of those times that a taxi is called for. If you want to avoid stairs (understandable with baggage and fatigue), that change at La Motte Picquet is not one you want to do.