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Question:

If you can afford it, some have talked recently of Sofitel Bercy in this newsgroup. http://www.sofitel.com/sofitel/JSPView.svlt?pageID=/fichehotel/fr_top… http://www.sofitel.com/sofitel/JSPView.svlt?pageID=reservez/fr_top.js… with on line reservation. They say that there are 9 equiped bedrooms for disabled people. If the URL is cutted and doesn’t work re-attach it or try from the beginning : http://www.sofitel.com , then "…guide…", then choice of city (the english version didn’t worked when I tried!) The hotel is accessible from Cour Saint-Emilion metro station : one of the new automatic line 14, wich passes at Chatelet-les-halles Paris central station. There are 2 successive lifts going from trains platforms to surface and between them a metro special "gate"/"turnstile" (I don’t know the word in english) for disabled people, accessible in both ways. You’ll have to pass, without difficulties, trough Bercy village, a place with restaurants in old restored wine warehouses, and a multiplex cinema. All the stations of line 14 have lifts to the surface try : http://www.ratp.fr You’ve got some cheaper hotels than Sofitel near some of them, at Chatelet notably, but I don’t know wich ones are accessible to disabled. I know that there are few bus lines accessible too in Paris but I don’t know wich ones. Since law n