Marc's Blog: monuments - Revisiting the Eiffel Tower After Many Years

π 2024-08-12 01:01 in Monuments

It had been a long time since I had been up the Eiffel tower, not quite 20 years, but close. And with the new airport security gate BS where you can't even walk under the Eiffel Tower without going through security gates, courtesy of terrorist fears (I won't write a long rant on that, but I personally think it's a BS overreaction and instead they should have skilled law enforcement patrolling and looking for suspect people at all such sites):

Anyway, thanks to a reservation at Jules Vernes, it was easy to get in and get a private elevator ride to the 2nd floor, enjoy yummy food, get lots of pictures, and then walk down to the 1st floor and back down without having to take any regular elevator or any lines, so that worked great :)
Going to the 3rd floor was not possible without very advance tickets, but honestly it's a small floor and the view is great from the 2nd floor as is.

Views from the top:

Russian orthodox church

This time around was a bit different due to the olympics as they had many blue seats/viewing platforms for the multiple locations the games happened at: