About Girls’ Guide to Paris

New York-based GirlsGuideToParis.com, an all-encompassing online city guide created in 2009, currently features and manages over 4,000 pages of fun ideas, services and insider-tips when shopping, dining, and visiting Paris – all tested and personally selected with care by founder Doni Belau and her team of locally-based editors.

With more than 32,000 monthly users and 70,000 page views monthly, 5,200+ newsletter subscribers, 6,500+ active Facebook fans, and 13,000+ Twitter followers, the Girls Guide to Paris community comprises 258,000 unique visitors per year from the United States, France, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia.

The site has various projects under development including its recently launched Travel Club, i-Phone applications, downloadable walking tours and a weekly radio show.

About the Travel Club

A circle of friends, for lovers of all things French, created to show users how much GG2P values them by giving them access to members-only value-added services and privileges including discounts, benefits, advantages, personal concierge which will enhance their Paris and online experience andallow them to get more from our online city guide.

About Doni Belau, founder:

In 2000, after many visits to Paris, Ms. Belau and her hubby bought an apartment in the 6th Arrondissement during a “what the hell” moment. Doni had fallen hopelessly in love with this city of endless style and beauty, where women can be whoever they want, or so she believed, and a holiday home can be the holder and keeper of dreams. Many wonderful hours were spent there on rue Lobineau with the kids, with family, with girlfriends and with new French friends.

While the apartment is no more, Doni continues to visit her favorite place on earth and obsessively combs through every guidebook about Paris, scours nearly every blog and travel magazine and spends countless hours hunting down the newest restaurants and shops in the City of Light. Doni has traveled to Paris many times with groups of girlfriends, as well as her sister, her niece and her teenage daughter and friends. She will certify that every girl—of any age—can have a fabulous time in her favorite place. Before travel overtook her life, Doni worked in the not-for-profit arena and in advertising. Her mission now is to continue introducing her favorite parts of Paris to friends, acquaintances and anyone on the street who will listen.

Interested in writing for the Girls’ Guide?

We have a bevy of fabulous lady bloggers in Paris, but we are always scouting for new talent. Please submit several examples of your writing and blog posts to info@girlsguidetoparis.com. Our articles typically range from 300 to 500 words, all references need to be hyperlinked and we require 3–4 excellent photos with proper credits per post. We do not pay any writers who are not regulars with us, but we’d love to help you promote your own blog. Sorry, we do not accept any posts from companies trying to sell something.

The Girls’ Guide to Paris is lucky to have a bevy of wonderful women bloggers on the ground in Paris who experience, write and experience some more, bringing you the most up-to-date information about What’s Hot right now in Paris. Their backgrounds and interests are as varied as their ages and countries of origin. We want to bring you several versions of Paris, because we understand that what women want and can afford at various stages of our lives will continue to change. We hope you get to know, read and enjoy all of our lady bloggers, each with her own perspective and each with a love of Paris that continues to inspire me and other women voyagers.

To contact Doni, please email her. For general questions, please use our general site email. Reach Girls’ Guide to Paris by phone at 203-599-1790.