That giant ferris wheel

I%26#39;ve never seen in when in Paris before, and have heard it is not available year-round. Does anyone know if it will be up the last week of November? I could swear I%26#39;ve seen a TV travel show about Christmas in Paris and the ferris wheel was there, but thought I%26#39;d ask on here for confirmation. Thanks!

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IF this is what you mean, then the Giant Ferris Wheel of Paris is no more:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roue_de_Paris

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferris_Wheel_of_Paris

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1780357.stm

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I think the information on those websites is dated and no longer correct, EssexWanderer.

%26quot;La grande roue%26quot; is - still - on the Place de la Concorde in wintertime. I saw it there at the end of September last year, and I%26#39;ve seen it on pictures taken only a few months ago.

It is true that initially, it was intended to be there for only one year - and that it stayed much longer. It was removed, but is now back during a few months per year - probably 4 months or more. I heard there%26#39;s sometimes also a smaller one in the Jardin des Tuileries.

theparistraveler.com/la-grande-roue-now-you-…

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That ride had been in central London for a while before it was placed in Paris.

How do I know? The English commentary rattled on for quite a while about being able to see the Houses of Parliament, Big Ben, the Tower of London, and the Thames.

Quite a surprise -- and a laugh! -- to hear a tourist commentary of London whilst going round and round in Paris. We never figured out whether it was just the wrong audio being played, or that no one bothered to check.

It was a very pleasant interlude in the day, though -- when we rode it was a sunny late spring day, and a perfect day for looking at Paris.

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It was certainly there in the last week of November last year.

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You have one wheel for summer in Tuileries and the other one which is at the bottom of Champs Elysees is there during Xmas season. When that starts is a big mystery. Last year it was there for the Rugby cup and stayed into January.

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This is very interesting because I saw the ferris wheel at the Place de la Concorde in Sept-Oct %26#39;07 and I thought it was always there. So it is just there for about 4 months of the year--every year? Which 4 months? When is the smaller one in the tuilleries? I also read there is a carrousel in Le Jardin du Luxembourg. Is that still there and is it there year round?

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from what I have heard thru the expat grapevine is the Wheel shows up in October in Concorde. It disappears in Jan/Feb then makes a return to Tuileries sometime after the Tour rides thru in July.

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Well, I arrived in Paris Sept. 10th and it was either already there or arrived in the next couple of days because I saw it there. Thanks for clarifying the general perameters of this issue.

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