I need some help from French members here please.

[Annie]

I am planning a trip to France this April and I have  few questions. Does anybody know how to obtain a permit or how to arrange a tour of the underground lake beneath the  Garnier Opera house in Paris? Also are there planned day trips from Paris to Lourdes? Thankyou so much! Merci beaucoup!

[Will]

I'm not sure you can visit the underground lake: http://www.paris-tourism.com/paris/us/patrimoine_loisirs/monuments/garnier_opera___national_opera_of_paris.html
More info in English: http://visites.opera-de-paris.com/?theatre=garnier&page=visiter&lng=en
I actually work like 5 minutes from the Op?ra.

As for Paris - Lourdes, you can take the train with the national train company SNCF: http://www.voyages-sncf.com (I'm not sure they have an English version)
Around mid-April, a roundtrip would cost 44 euros ($56): 07h45 22.00 ? / Length: 05h59 - 17h05 22.00 ? / Length: 06h15. That'd be a long trip (12 hours round trip!) just to go there, maybe you could stay overnight.

Don't hesitate to ask or PM me if you need more info.

[Bandita]

Have a wonderful trip, France is a beautiful country.  I have been lucky enough to have seen most of it.

[Will]

I'm glad you liked it!

[Bandita]

I'm glad you liked it!

I did!  I was there for some months-

Here are some English links for rail travel in France.

http://www.raileurope.com/us/index.htm

http://gofrance.about.com/cs/trains/a/railpass.htm

http://www.americansinfrance.net/QandA/Train_Travel_in_France_Q_and_A.cfm

[Annie]

Thanks for the links!