Solo travel

You can go to Lille from Paris by taking a bus or a train. I took a 3h bus and was really quick. One you get there you can walk around and see all main attractions that are closed to the city center. Food is not expensive. You should try les moulles with french fries and the go to have some dessert in a bakery store but not the gouffre cause it's really thing and small that's not worth the price. To finish you can go to the Citadelle a nice park to have some rest and a drink. I would recommend to do this just in a day cause there's no more else to do after that

Group travel

I want to talk about my experience in Lille because it was the first time I was hosted by a girl I had met online. I was with my roommate and our host let us stay for two nights in her place, she was such a lovely person to talk to and we could trust each other completely! I am very grateful for this experience and I hope I can do it again in the future. Lille is a beautiful city with cool architecture and some museums that we really enjoyed. The people are really nice too. I recommend it!

Be careful especially at night 🙏🏻 It's a beautiful city but as all city on the night guys can be pretty dangerous There are area where you shouldn't be walking alone or not at all Fortunately most of the people are nice

As a woman I don't feel very safe in Lille at night. Public transport isn't really great and unfortunately I'd rather take a cab than the metro. It regularly happens that a man stops me or follows me, even in broad daylight, and not many people care..

Lille is pretty safe as a woman. I never encountered issues while being here even if I go for walk alone or getting home at night after a night out You can always go to people to get some help if needed. On the other side there is many people that asks for money in the street

It is safe but not always especially at night with the homeless people everywhere and some of them are drunk and violent or on drugs... Even in the subway always watch your belongings there's a lot of thieves. During the day it's safe .

Never had any bad expérience in 23 years of living here, but I also respect the basics rules to keep safe. I guess it is like any big cities, you have to be careful and stay out of the "bad" neighborhoods.