Moulin Rouge

Hi, what is the best way to get tickets for this show without having to pay an arm and a leg for them via the concierge desk.

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buy them online from the MR website maybe.. or save tons and don%26#39;t go.( sorry I just think it such a tourist trap, none of my Parisiene relatives have ever been to it,, just tourists go)

If you really wantto go,,

don%26#39;t bother with the dinner, overpriced banquet food, just take show option.

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I have to agree with the previous poster... it%26#39;s a total tourist trap, scores of buses disgorging people, huge line, poor food, lame show. I would not bother, you can much better spend your time elsewhere.

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Thank you will take your advice. I think I will pass and rather go see the Lion King with my kids instead. How do I get tickets for this show. The last website I visited was in French.

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We just bought off the french website. Not hard with a little bit of french and just looking at the page logically. Its pretty much the same layout it would be if it were english. After purchase you receive an email with a verification and a ticket to present. The show is in French just in case you did not realize that.

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Aren%26#39;t we all tourists who do not live in Paris? You can only go to the Moulin Rouge in Paris and the Lion King can be seen anywhere. My opinion, and certainly not judgement on your decision.

I have been to the Moulin Rouge with French friends and had dinner there prior to the show. And sat among other French folks. And many other nationalities certainly. The food is fine and no worse or better than any other dinner show. The show is glitzy and meant to be entertaining. It is. I really don%26#39;t understand what people are expecting - absolutely fabulous food and a refined show?

I think it%26#39;s a fun thing to do once. And the best way to book is on-line.

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Since you will be travelling with your kids, I must respectfully disagree with the previous poster. The Moulin Rouge is hideously expensive! You can get Lion King tickets for much less money, and I think it will be more fun for your kids. Yes, it can be seen anywhere, but I%26#39;m sure you can safely say you haven%26#39;t seen it in French before!

I am also in the camp of those who believe that the Moulin Rouge is an overpriced tourist trap. We went last August, and we were on a group tour and stuffed in there like sardines. Once seated, you could not get out (they put tables on the stairs up to our seating area so you were stuck). The waiters also couldn%26#39;t even get to where we were seated. We went largely because my husband wanted to see what it was all about and I guess to say that he had been. So we%26#39;ve been there, done that - and even he was disappointed.

Have a wonderful trip with your family.

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Instead of the Moulin Rouge why not go other equally famous--in Europe--night clubs like the Lido and la Nouvelle Eve? you mentioned kids. The M.R. and all the other nightclubs are topless.. a few years ago, right after the time the Moulin Rouge movie came out, the daughter of a colleague was planning to go to Paris as part of a student exchange program and HAD to go to the MR. She was 18 and when I mentioned the topless thing she didn%26#39;t believe me..%26quot;the movie was filmed there and they didn%26#39;t have topless dancers%26quot;. Apparently she didn%26#39;t believe her hosts parents either so they took her to the M.R during the day and when she saw the photos, not to mention the photos of other shows nearby she was horrified! much to the relief of the hosts who didn%26#39;t relish paying so much money. besides all that the Moulin Rouge doesn%26#39;t look anything like it was when Toulouse-Lautrec was painting the original French Cancan dancers (then a not to subtle way for obviously agile prostitutes to advertise their %26quot;talents%26quot;

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