From Orly Airport To The Office At 9 Rue Malher, 4e:
Cab is likely to be about $45 (always remember to add a 15% tip, more if the ride is short). If you call for a cab to pick you up, the meter starts immediately when you call, not when they pick you up, as in the States. There is a maximum limit of 3 persons per cab. No exceptions.
Take the airport bus to INVALIDES, for about $10, then take a cab from there, for perhaps another $15, to our office.
More complicated would be to take the free shuttle bus to the train station, where the RER goes into Paris; decend at the Gare d'Austerlitz, then take either a cab or metro to the office. A cab would be perhaps $8. (Remember: trains and metros mean stairs. This means you must carry your luggage up and down, even if it has wheels or a luggage carrier). For the metro, follow the large "M". Look for a sign that says, "billets" ("tickets"). Buy a "carnet deuxiem" (10 tickets, 2nd class) for about $10. Look for signs that say, "Direction: Pantin", then put one ticket in the machine and save it when it comes out. Take the metro TWO stops to Bastille. Follow the orange signs that say, "Correspondance: Neuilly". Go ONE stop to St. Paul. Up TWO flights of steps. Cross the busy street straight ahead. Turn right and go a short block to Rue Malher, then turn left onto Rue Malher and we are about 1/2 block down on the left at number 9.
You are not looking for a campus, but for an office building. There is a gold plate at the entrance on the outside the building that identifies that building as the University of Paris I. There is usually some type of bulletin board as you enter, telling you which floor you will need to go to check-in. Be advised that the elevator is very small and can hold only 1-2 persons with luggage snugly. You can always send one person up with everyone's luggage and everyone else can go up (but only about 3-4 people snugly) when it comes back down again.
Cheapest of all, is the 215 bus to Denfert-Rochereau. Then spend another metro ticket to enter the metro. Follow the signs, "Direction: Porte de Clignancourt". Change at Chatelet, 10 metro stops. Then follow the signs for, Correspondance: Vincennes". Go two stops down. Exit at St. Paul. Take the escalator or stairs up to the street and cross the busy street straight ahead (rue de Rivoli). Turn right and go a short block to Rue Malher, then turn left onto Rue Malher and we are about 1/2 block down on the left at number 9.
From Roissy-Charles De Gaulle Airport To Our Office At 9, Rue Malher, 4e:
Roughly 14 miles northeast of Paris.
The cheapest and fastest way to get into town is by ROISSY RAIL, a bus-train combination to Central Paris. Take the FREE schuttle bus from one of the following gates: Aerogare 1, gate 28; Aerogare 2A, gate 5; Aerogare 2B, gate 6; or Aerogare 2D, gate 6 to ROISSY train station and ride the RER B-3 to the city (45 min, for about $8, includes transfer to metro). Then follow the directions in the above paragraph that starts with: "More complicated......" starting around line 6 "For the metro....". Metro service runs approximately from 5:30am - 12:15am.
Bus service is as follows: regular service running until 8:30pm; autobus du soir runs until 12:30am; and a few noctambus night buses, run all night to the different portes of the city from the Chatelet stop. You can purchase tickets right from the drivers. Your cost and number of tickets needed will depend upon how many zones you cross. All tickets MUST be validated in the machine by the bus driver's seat. For info on the services, contact the Bureau de Tourisme RATP, pl de la Madeleine, 8e; tel: 40.06.71.45; Metro stop: Madeleine; open Mon-Sat, 7:30am - 7pm. An English-speaking representative is usually available to help.
Here is more information on Shuttle Service from the airports.