We love the RR! 20 minute walk to the Metro, 20 more minutes into the heart of Paris. And Vincennes itself has easily half a dozen bakeries near the RR, a terrific Farmer's Market twice a week (with bunnies with fur and fowl with feathers hanging up for sale). Huge park and a chateau also. We've been five times, I think. Last "real" visit was in 2011, and we had an unexpected stay for two nights in 2014 when the only reason we were going to be in Paris was for a plane home after a Viking River Cruise. We had ten days in Germany after the cruise, but there was a train strike. The German strikes are weird on again off again affairs, decided on a daily basis whether they are running or not. We did not want to get stuck in Cologne when we were supposed to take the train directly from Germany to the CDG airport, so flew from Berlin to Paris. Royal Regency had exactly one last minute room for the two nights we needed. Spent that time sick in bed, but not so sick we couldn't stagger out to a bakery each morning.
Here's where I tell my "small world" story again. Arrived at the RR in October 2014, sick and just wanting to get to our room, go out quickly for juice and pastry, and go to bed. New manager starts chatting us up. Where are you from? Los Angeles. What part of Los Angeles? Like this French guy is really going to know what I mean when I say San Pedro, but I don't feel well and I am not going to give him a geography lesson, so I keep it short hoping he'll let us alone and simply reply with "San Pedro". He comes back at me with, "Is the Busy Bee Market still open, I love their sandwiches?" After we picked our jaws up off the ground we found out he went to school up the street from us at Marymount as an exchange student, lived 20 years in LA, and had just moved back to France with his wife who is a lawyer. I'll tell you how sick we were -- the bottle of wine he later delivered to our door got left on the counter unopened!