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While during the day here provides you access to some of Paris’s most wonderful sights within a few moments’ walk, the business-like nature of the area means that Paris nightlife, by contrast, is limited within the arrondissement. So unless you go to the Les Halles/St. Denis area there’s not much to do. Les Halles/St. Denis’s cheap pleasures may appear slightly seedy to visitors over the age of 21 (that said, the area bordering the Les Halles mall is very nice – a good place to stop after catching a film in Les Halles’s enormous cinema, which presents many American and English movies in their original languages. But avoid going towards Rue St. Denis/Blvd. Sebastopol unless you’re consciously seeking that sort of milieu.) In addition, this area can get extremely touristy – especially around the otherwise lovely Rue de Rivoli. So watch your handbag and control your buying impulse for souvenirs until you’re a bit further off the beaten path.