L'hotel
St-Germain & Les Invalides
In a quiet quayside street, this award-winning hostelry is the stuff of romance, Parisian myths and urban legends.
Paris has a huge choice of accommodation, from hostels through to deluxe hotels, some of which rank among the finest in the world. Yet although the city has more than 150,000 beds in over 1500 establishments, you’ll still need to book well ahead during the warmer months (April to October) and all public and school holidays.
St-Germain & Les Invalides
In a quiet quayside street, this award-winning hostelry is the stuff of romance, Parisian myths and urban legends.
St-Germain & Les Invalides
A street work-of-art with its stencilled façade, this art hotel’s 16 dramatically different rooms pay homage to the written word.
Montmartre & Northern Paris
This two-star hotel facing the Gare de l’Est has 72 attractive, almost luxurious and very quiet rooms, some of which have balconies. The place has recently been freshened up; we love the new mock café breakfast area.
Champs-Élysées & Grands Boulevards
Among the cosier hotels in the 8e, the Amarante has traditional-style rooms, with exposed rafters, wooden furniture and oak panelling, and it has a prime location just around the corner from place Madeleine.
Montparnasse & Southern Paris
A hip mix of industrial workshop and côte maison (home-like), this restyled hotel is stacked on seven floors of a 1970s building.
Latin Quarter
This classy small hotel is located on a quiet street between rue Monge in the Latin Quarter and the Jardin des Plantes.
Champs-Élysées & Grands Boulevards
A lovely hotel due south of place Pigalle, it has 40 rooms, half of which are small studios with their own cooking facilities.
St-Germain & Les Invalides
Inspired by 1920s Montparnasse, a five-minute walk away, this avant-garde address features the distinctive signature of French street artist Jérôme Mesnager whose impish white figures back-flip up walls, scale stairs and dance above fireplaces – .
Montmartre & Northern Paris
The Hôtel des Arts is a friendly, attractive 50-room hotel, convenient to both place Pigalle and Montmartre. It has comfortable midrange rooms that are excellent value; consider spending an extra €25 for the superior rooms, which have nicer views.
Montparnasse & Southern Paris
This three-star Logis de France hotel may be a bit out of the way but rue Mouffetard and its market is just minutes away.
St-Germain & Les Invalides
‘Home away from home’ is the motto of this 22-room hôtel-maison southwest of the Jardin du Luxembourg.
Le Marais & Ménilmontant
This 52-room ‘urban resort’ south of place de la République wears a classical 19th-century exterior but has the 21st century inside.
Latin Quarter
In the heart of the studenty Sorbonne area, the Select is a very Parisian art deco minipalace, with an atrium and cactus-strewn winter garden, an 18th-century vaulted breakfast room and 67 small but stylish bedrooms with ingenious design solution.
Louvre & Les Halles
This stylish art nouveau hotel facing the Opéra Comique feels like it never let go of the belle époque. It’s an excellent choice if you’re interested in shopping, being within easy walking distance of the grands magasins on bd Haussmann.
Bastille & Eastern Paris
Cobbled from what was an ordinary hotel, the very trendy BLC has 29 all-white rooms, as comfortable as they are ‘Zen’ cool.
Montparnasse & Southern Paris
Jet showers, iPod docks, wine glasses for guests who like to BYO and art to buy on the walls are just some of the touches that make this small family-run hotel a pleasure.
Le Marais & Ménilmontant
This brighter-than-bright 31-room design hotel, with its emphasis on sunbursts and bold primary colours, is just this side of kitsch. But it makes for a different Paris experience.
Montmartre & Northern Paris
This very sedate, stylish hotel has 98 spacious, well-designed rooms and some of the best views in town.
St-Germain & Les Invalides
This 31-room hotel helped set Paris’ small, minimalist, boutique standard. Fabrics, lighting and soft furnishings are all of the utmost quality and taste.
Champs-Élysées & Grands Boulevards
This excellent-value 34-room midrange hotel attracts with bold colours and modern art.
St-Germain & Les Invalides
This stunner of a résidence, on a quiet street of the Latin Quarter, has 16 superb apartments all looking onto a peaceful inner courtyard. They range in size from studios for two people to a four-room duplex apartment for a family of six.
Le Marais & Ménilmontant
A real summer address, the Marais Gardens is just that – a handful of buildings designed by Gustave Eiffel (of tower fame) and ensnared by beautiful courtyard cobblestone gardens strung with flowers and tables and chairs.
Montparnasse & Southern Paris
This is one of the central branches of this fabulously successful (now international) chain which has 17 properties in Paris. Prices vary depending on the season, and the property.
Montmartre & Northern Paris
A basic 32-room hotel, this place is superbly located in the heart of the Canal St-Martin district. Rooms are unspectacular but clean; it’s a good fallback option if the other hotels in the area are full.
St-Germain & Les Invalides
This is one of the central branches of this fabulously successful (now international) chain which has 17 properties in Paris.
Le Marais & Ménilmontant
This friendly place on a busy shopping street not far from place de la Bastille has 35 serviceable rooms off a long stone corridor lined with mirrors.
Montmartre & Northern Paris
Conveniently located around the corner from the Gare du Nord, the Vieille France is an acceptable choice if you’re in need of a hotel near the station. The doubles were recently renovated and are in OK shape; stay away from the singles.
Montparnasse & Southern Paris
On the fringe of the Latin Quarter, minimalist La Manufacture has 57 individually – and minimalistically – decorated rooms.
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