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Overnight flight into Charles de Gaulle
Evening departure with a morning arrival. Window seat on the left side for a sunrise approach.
Air France · 19:40 · JFK → CDG
$780
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Paris → Barcelona → Marseille → Rome → Istanbul · 14 days / 13 nights
Paris, a Mediterranean balcony, then Istanbul
From $4,680
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4 days Paris → 5-night cruise → 4 nights Istanbul
The exact route Mira ran last October: a short Paris week that does not try to do everything, a five-night cruise used as a floating transfer, and four nights in Karaköy with a Hamam and a Bosphorus ferry instead of a Bosphorus cruise.
Mira Solano@mirasolano · 184.2K followersI write the trips I actually take — city weeks stitched to a cruise, with the transfers no one puts on a highlight reel.
View profileLand at CDG, check in near the Marais, and walk the Seine at dusk.
flight
Evening departure with a morning arrival. Window seat on the left side for a sunrise approach.
Air France · 19:40 · JFK → CDG
$780
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A 18-room townhouse with a tiny cocktail bar. Request a courtyard room if you are a light sleeper.
Hôtel Providence · 15:00 · Paris
$310
Included in triprestaurant
Walk-in counter seats after 8:30 if you missed the reservation window.
Le Servan · 20:30 · Paris
Jordan Hale
The transfer days were the point
I would have booked Paris and Istanbul separately and been miserable in between. The cruise-as-transfer is the part I would never have designed myself.
Priya Raman
Booked two optional legs, skipped the rest
We used the trip as a spine and booked only the cruise and the Istanbul hotel through TravelLTK. The day-by-day still held up.
SkiZurich → Zermatt
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FamilyLisbon → Sintra → Cascais
@leilaokonkwo
HoneymoonNaples → Ravello → Capri
@natevoss