Saint-Lazare

From Britain I've seen many trains. SNCF is definitely the best I have seen There is never a feel of being g squashed at all. The design is slightly weird but when you sit down, you see why.

Gare Saint-Lazare is a beautiful, well-organized, and secure station serving many areas in and around Paris.

Train station was great, very efficient, and the trains were on time. My issue lies with an employee of the SNCF. They were a bald short white man in plain clothes on the platform. My friend smoked his vape after getting off the train (admittedly a mistake, he didn't realize it was not allowed) but instead of coming over to tell him to stop vaping or speak to him calmly, this employee flashed something that looked like a fake badge (mostly because he wouldn't stop flailing it around) and he started yelling (not asking, yelling) how we "needed to come with him to the station". At that point we had no idea what for or why, and it scared me and my friends immensely. He also kept yelling and showed us an arm band and lanyard, which we had no idea the significance of. As a woman, there's no way in HELL I'm going to a secondary location with anyone without them telling me exactly why. (Where we are from, if you do something this careless you can be kidnapped or murdered. Fake security personnel and fake cops are a problem.) We genuinely thought this was some scam, and I tried to push his seemingly fake badge away so we could keep walking. When he continued to harass us, I asked him to find an employee in a uniform, who did explain to us that he WAS actually an employee of the SNCF. If that is the case, then why was he yelling "come with us to the station" instead of just asking my friend to not smoke? Why did he try to force us to walk away with him without saying why? Why did he continue to yell over the uniformed station employee when I was trying to ask him questions? Walking away from this terrifying interaction where we all thought we were in some danger, I heard them laugh at us. Is this how Paris treats her people? If so, I am thankful I do not live here. I genuinely hope these inconsiderate, hurtful, and shameless men have terrible lives and are miserable every day. They need to be taught to be more diplomatic and less aggressive, and they need less fake looking identification. This kind of behavior was completely inappropriate. Alternatively, we were saved by another kind man who was also a plainclothes SNCF employee who I hope has a beautiful life with a comfortable bed to sleep in and the best meals every day. He was the paragon of good behavior and good manners. He seemed to understand why we were confused and explained to the others what was going on. So if you go to this station, beware of the bald and short plainclothes SNCF employees.

I recently traveled through Saint-Lazare train station in Paris and here's what I found. The trains run right on schedule, which is great. However, there are some things that need improvement. On Sundays (I have no experience on otherdays), the station closes from midnight until 4:30 a.m. If you miss your train, you'll be stuck outside in the freezing cold. This is a big deal because Saint-Lazare is one of the main train stations in Paris. It's a head-scratcher why they don't let people with morning tickets stay inside. Paying 1 Euro to use the restroom (WC) seems a bit steep, and the staff in charge of them could use some lessons in politeness. Also, it's a real hassle that there are no restrooms in the underground metro stations, including Saint-Lazare. Customer service counters close early, around 9:00 pm. If you need help after that, you're out of luck. So, if you're planning to use this station, make sure to plan ahead and get your tickets sorted before you arrive. While Saint-Lazare is great with keeping time, there are some things that could make the experience much better.

The third busiest mainline station in Paris in a very impressive, grandiose building. Plenty of outlets to browse whilst waiting for a train.

Beautiful train station in Paris with excellent lighting & lots of shops. It's one of the mainline station & one of the busiest stations in Paris. It has excellent architecture beauty with clock displayed at centre. It has main lines and metro connectivity lines which makes convenience for passengers!!

Used it a lot to commute between Becon Les Bruyeres/Asnieres and Paris. Good trains frequency (every few minutes) with modern trains as well. Navigating in Saint Lazare to the other RER and Metro lines was at first perhaps challenging, but quickly enough I got to understand the logic and it became easy.

Very well maintained, neat and clean station. The lobby area is huge, with high chairs and charging ports for mobile and laptops.

Huge railway station on 3 levels. Local trains, trains to Normandy and doubtless more. Shops from fashion to jewelry and (more importantly) food, crepes, groceries and drinks. Many escalators to move you around - the signage to this Brit/American is a little illogical (so it can take a few minutes to find a restroom (there are VERY few!) ) for example. It does it's job and drops you a short taxi ride from all the sights you came to see.

Gare Saint-Lazare is a decent train station hub that services several train companies and the Metro. The station is easy to nagivate but for tourists such as myself, the signage can be difficult to read and understand. With me having a good understanding of the French language, there were still issues with finding the right train when traveling long distance to another city. However, using Gare Saint-Lazare for the Metro is easy and convienent and again it's a hub that supports many train lines that will transfer you to different parts of the city. This station also has plenty of stores for shopping, wheither it's clothing, luggage or food, this station has it all. Overall, it's a decent train station and the trains tend to run on time.

Arrived early to get get a train to Giverny. Information people told us to use the kiosk. After trying two separate kiosks... (for 15-20 minutes) which failed to work, we missed our train. After being frustrated with the kiosk experience, we had asked for further assistance, and were told about a ticket office??? Bottom line... just go to the ticket office and totally avoid the useless kiosks. Two hours wasted.

This is a massive, bustling station in the 8th arrondissement, with plenty of metro and train connections. The station itself is basically like a shopping mall, with chain stores for clothing/accessories (Swatch, Calzedonia, Etam, Celio, etc.), food/drink (Burger King, Paul, Starbucks), among others. They also provide services if you need to buy tickets or subscribe to a Navigo, although when I went to the service center for the latter, the line was long and customers near the front of the line had been waiting for hours. Around 6 PM we could also see some of the employees starting to pack up and leave for the night, which sparked a lot of understandable complaining/grumbling from the customers in line. (Ultimately, I decided to apply for my annual Navigo card online.) The station was kind of dirty, but that's probably to be expected given how much foot traffic it gets every day. There are some benches/seating throughout the station, but I wouldn't consider the station a pleasant place to wait or spend a significant amount of time. It's a pretty convenient place to meet someone though, if you happen to be in the area.

Very large train station that intersects the metro, suburban trains and RER lines. I came from an RER train and wanted to get onto a suburban "J" train to head northeast outside Paris for some fishing on the Seine river. Over 25 platforms and you won't know where they are at for your train until 5 minutes before departure. SO you have keep watching the screen (don't take your eyes off the screen) to catch the platform where your train will be. I looked away for a few minutes to find a place to eat but by the time I looked up, the train had already left. So keep your eyes glued to the screen! I got on the train after 30 more minutes for the next train but my eyes were strained looking up at the monitor to see which platform! Basically you will see a herd of people running to the platform once it shows itself - you have to run too because if you don't make the 5 minute limit, you miss it!

We really thought this was a great, easy to navigate station, considering it's a major one. We were headed to Caen in Normandy to visit World War 2 Landmarks, and this is how you get there. We didn't have any problems, except for as we waited with our coffee and pastry to learn which track we were due for. Had a strange encounter with a rather strange fellow who attempted conversation with us, continually, until my husband pulled out his Bronx, NY childhood training! That sent the guy scurrying. But, we did see lots of train staff around so we felt assured that we were in a safe environment. We had the opportunity, as mentioned, to get a little petit dejeuner and that little kiosk was clean and staff were helpful, with tasty pastries. All in all, it was a good visit!

I like Gare Saint-Lazare, I much prefer it to Gare Du Nord which is the main station of Paris, not only is the area much nicer, safer and livelier in the Opera district of Paris, but it is also a stunning old station of which I enjoyed being opposite and looking at while staying in the Hilton Paris Opera across the way. It is the third busiest train station in France and the 11th busiest in Europe. It didn't seem too busy whenever I was in the station, which seems to be common with public transport as a whole after lockdown and COVID. They had a nice range of shops in the station, there was a Starbucks which is temporarily closed, the surrounding area has some life to it with bars and brasseries. Also, I feel the current one-way entrance/exit system into the station is a little annoying, especially when they close off entrances at night meaning it's harder to get in/out. 3* - Nothing special as a station, can be hard to navigate too.

This station is so freaking confusing. It's not very clean, either. It connects so many metro lines and has a shopping mall above the train station. Each time I'm here, I'm literally walking in circles. It got better after a few times but I lose my sense of direction when I'm here. If you have better advice on how to navigate this station, please pm me!

From experience I have to admit that on one of those warm summer day this place gets incredibly hot inside, particularly if you are waiting to find out which platform your train heads from (they didn't announce it util five minutes before the train left, which meant that there was a horde of people all making a mad rush to get some good seats). The station itself is pretty large, with a number of exits. There is also a metro station underneath, and once I discovered that there are tunnels stretching out under the city to connect with other metro stations - in fact you can walk underground all the way to Opera. Mind you, the Hungry Jacks here gets pretty packed, though I later discovered that there was a McDonalds on the other side of the road. Oh, the trains from the station head off toward Normandy - like London, Paris doesn't have a single central station, but rather five (or is it six) stations that service different parts of the country (and Europe).

This train station was really big. So big that it was confusing which station you're suppose to go to line up for your train. Yikes! We were fortunate to catch it in time before our train departs. Good thing this station is located in the heart of Paris and easily accessible by the Metro. We left to Bayeux (in Normandy) from this train station, as I think most trains to the 'burbs leave from here.

Voila une gare que j'emprunte souvent pour me rendre a mon travail (la défense). Ou pour mes week end en Normandie. Très simple en terme d'agencement (comparé a d'autres gares) elle n'en demeure pas moins efficace. En revanche le vrai gros de cette gare et l'alignement des quais face a la zone d'accès unique. (pas de superposition entre les arrivants et les partants) résultat: la grosse pagaille aux heures de pointe. Tout le monde se marche dessus.

A good train station. Here you can get trains, metros, RERs, and buses. There is even a small mall on the bottom two floors of this place which can be nice to look around in when you are waiting around for a train.