Versaille advice please

Hello myself and my family are staying in Versaille for 3 nights in August. We arrive on a Tuesday afternoon and plan to leave on Friday lunchtime. We are staying at the Versaille Novotel as we do not want to drive into central Paris.

Could anyone advice of any nice reasonably priced restaurants that are child friendly, our children are not very adventrous when it comes to food and neither are we if we are honest. I know we are in France but Italians are usually a safe option.

We would also like some advice concerning trains into Paris. We plan to visit for 2 days and need to know which would be the best ticket to get and also what times do the trains run until.

Any information much appreciated.

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French food isn%26#39;t always the fancy complex over the top food it is made out to be. Steak or chicken with french fries are two common dishes. Salads with either a variety of vegetables or simple salads with a cheeses and/ or cold cuts are also common. street selers sell a variety of crepes (some sweet, others savoury) are found in many places and lots of tourist kids love them. All restaurants MUST have menus posted outside, with prices. Beware: in French un menu is a meal with 2 to 4 -or more- courses. Each course has several choices. There are fixed price menus for very reasonable prices and taxes and tips are included. A list of the all the dishes available is called %26quot;la carte%26quot;. MOST French restaurants are child friendly.

Staying in Versailles will make your back and forth trips to Paris expensive as Versailles is in zone 4. Paris itself is in zone 1-2. the %26quot;Paris Visite pass cost Euros 28.30 for 2 days for 1 adult and a child over 11, Euros 14.15 for a child under 11 for 2 days. There is a 1 DAY PASS, called Mobilis, that cost Euros 9.80 per day per person (unlimited travel)

Paris transit starts at 5:30 am and close at 1 am.

The hotel doesn%26#39;t appear to be right in the center of Versailles..as its access directions are By RER train, line C, alight at Versailles Rive Gauche, then take Line B bus(or walk 15-20 minutes). From Paris, be sure to take the RER C3 Versailes rive Gaucheas the RER C has several destinations. check http://www.aparisguide.com/maps/metro.htm Versailles rive gauche is at the bottom left of the map

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It seemed like you could get ham and cheese baguette sandwiches and crepes everywhere. The ham and cheese sandwiches mostly had butter on them. Bread is easy to get and cheap. You can get fries most everywhere. My daughter is pretty fussy, but she liked crepes a lot. It seemed that ham and cheese is very popular in France (or at least sold in a lot of places). You can also get omelettes at a lot of places. We took bread and cheese with us when we went to Versailles (on a day trip) so didn%26#39;t eat out but there were sandwich and crepe places near the RER station.

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It is not terrible more expensive that you are in zone 4. The RER from Versailles to Paris is 2.95, and of course you have the return trip at the end of the day

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Thanks for the information.

Could I also ask if the neighbour hood is relatively safe? Will we be ok walking from the train station on an evening, probably about 10.00 pm.

Thanks

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Does anyone have any idea of often trains run to versaille?

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bump

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Anymore info please, travel next week.

Thanks

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We just went to the station and waited maybe 5-10 min. Maybe we just got lucky though. There was a sign on the wall listing where the trains go (they have letters on the front and each set of letters means a different thing). I think they came maybe every 20 min or so, but I wouldn%26#39;t count on that, since I was only really paying attention to when our train was coming.