Travel. Paris. Paris Hotels
The City of Paris is divided into twenty arrondissements. They are arranged in the form of a clockwise spiral, starting with the first in the middle of the city on the right bank (north bank) of the Seine River. Select an arrondissement on the map below to view the France Today listings for that area.
1st arrondissement
3rd arrondissement
Bonne Nuit Paris
63 rue Charlot
Paris 75003
01.42.71.83.56.
The proprietor Marchand offers three independent guest rooms-named Enclos des Templiers, Jardin du Marais and Rue Charlot-and he has put a lot of care into their decoration. Breakfast is taken around the rustic family table, and Marchand even buys his baguettes and croissants from two different bakers, to be sure that guests get the best of both. He also makes his own jam and honey in Dordogne, where he and his wife Denise have a country home complete with beehives
Bed and Breakfast
From €145 per night
Le Pavillon de la Reine
28 pl des Vosges
Paris 3rd
01.40.29.19.19.
A charming luxury hotel tucked under the arcades of the Place des Vosges. Standard double €330
4th arrondissement
Hôtel des Deux-Iles
59 rue Saint Louis-en-l’Ile
Paris 75004
01 43 26 13 35
The Ile Saint Louis, the smaller island attached to the Ile de la Cité in the Seine, is a long-standing favorite location for English and American visitors. Installed in a 17th-century building that was part of a former convent, the Deux-Iles, like its sister hotel a few doors away, was entirely renovated in 2007. The simple contemporary bedrooms are small, overlooking the island’s main street or an interior courtyard, and all have attractive beige and white marble bathrooms. Breakfast is served in the vaulted stone cellar, graced by an inviting faux fireplace. Air-conditioning, double-glazed windows.
Hôtel du Jeu de Paume
54 Rue Saint Louis-en-l’Ile
Paris 75004
01 43 26 14 18
This 17th-century building on the small Ile Saint Louis was once the site of a court for the jeu de paume, the “real tennis” that was the ancestor of today’s game. Entered through a courtyard, the hotel has the feel of a private house, with exquisite terracotta tiles and exposed beams. A small garden, and the dog asleep at the reception desk, add to the charm. WiFi, basement area with sauna, piano and billiard room. Air conditioning scheduled for 2010.
5th arrondissement
Hôtel des Grandes Ecoles
75 rue du Cardinal Lemoine
Paris 75005
01.43.26.79.23
A family-run hotel with 51 rooms spread through a pretty trio of pastel-painted houses surrounding a large garden, this extremely popular hotel seems much more pastoral than Parisian. Bedrooms are individually decorated in muted toile de Jouy or floral prints, and all have shower or bath (but no tv). Very quiet, delightful service, and extremely hard to get into, so book well in advance.
Hôtel Le Petit Paris
214 rue Saint Jacques
Paris 75005
01.53.10.29.29.
A newly opened, small but fairly luxurious and expensive Left Bank hotel, already popular with American, English and Australian visitors. The decor is modern, with spot lighting and trendy 1960s furniture in the lobby, including a swinging transparent plastic chair suspended from the ceiling, and an open honor bar in the evening. Surrounding a small patio, each floor is a different color, each room is unique, and each has flat screen TV strategically placed above the bath
Hôtel Meliá Boutique Colbert
7 rue Colbert
Paris 75005
01 56 81 19 00
Between the Seine and the Boulevard Saint Germain, set back on a tiny formal garden, this well-located Left Bank hotel is unusually quiet. There’s a pretty lobby salon and bar downstairs, with welcoming jugs of fresh mint, orange or lemon flavored water. Bedrooms have striped wallpaper that seems a little worn here and there, but the small bathrooms are fairly luxurious in dark red marble with Italianate motifs. Jugs of fresh mint orange or lemon flavored water temptingly laid lobby.
Hôtel Observatoire Luxembourg
107 blvd Saint Michel
Paris 5th
Métro: Saint-Michel, RER Luxembourg
01.46.34.10.12
Architect/decorator Alexandre Danan has turned the Hôtel Observatoire Luxembourg into a delightful surprise. Well soundproofed, it’s a quiet retreat right on the Left Bank, a block from the Luxembourg Garden, and a few minutes from the Panthéon, the Sorbonne and the chic shops and cafés of Saint Germain des Prés. The 41 rooms are all variations on the same classic/contemporary theme; some have views of the Luxembourg Garden, and several overlook a beautiful private garden.
Hotel Studia
51 blvd Saint Germain
Paris 75005
01 43 26 81 00
Next to the popular Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday open street market in the Place Maubert, this small hotel is a relic from the distant past. The 1950s and ’60s decor in the 34 bedrooms includes plum-colored quilted satin bedcovers and linoleum walls. Bathrooms are spacious and more modern, in those rooms that have them, with for those in tight-budget rooms there are paying showers down the hall. It’s a clean and friendly low-priced option, very well located, and among the last of a dying breed.
6th arrondissement
Apart’Hotel Citadines
53 ter Quai des Grands Augustins
Paris 75006
01.44.07.70.00
Part of a large, Singapore-owned international chain of serviced apartment hotels, this big 204-room occupies prime territory on the Left Bank quay facing the Ile de la Cité and Notre Dame across the Seine. Accommodations range from single occupancy studios with extremely comfortable sofa beds to large one-bedroom apartments. All have well-equipped kitchens and good bathrooms, and some have terrific views over the river or the rooftops of Paris. Maid service is optional. With a downstairs laundry and gym, this brilliantly located option has all the advantages of independent living.
Hotel de l’Abbaye
10 Rue Cassette
Paris 75006
01.45.44.38.11
There’s little trace of the 17th-century convent that once stood here, except for the cobblestone entrance courtyard, but the big, wood-paneled lobby sitting rooms and bar are among the most inviting on the Left Bank, with a wood burning fireplace, comfy overstuffed chairs and antique furnishings. The adjacent conservatory breakfast nook opens onto a small garden with a fountain. All 44 rooms and suites are furnished with antiques and decorated with fine fabrics and wallpapers, and the four duplex apartments each have private terraces. Marble bathrooms are well appointed. The street is quiet and residential, but only a brief walk away from Place Saint Sulpice and the boutique-lined, busy streets of Saint-Germain-des-Près. Air conditioned, WiFi.
Hôtel des Académies et des Arts
15 rue de la Grande Chaumière
Paris 75006
01.43.26.66.44
189€
Hôtel Récamier
3 bis pl Saint Sulpice
Paris 6th
01.43.26.04.89
Small hotel rooms are as much a part of Paris as croissants, but management here has given some real thought to designing for tight quarters. Excellent design and a superb location in a corner of the Place Saint-Sulpice. Standard double €250
Le Relais Saint-Germain
9 Carrefour de l’Odéon
Paris 75006
01.43.29.12.05.
With massive, ancient oak beams in every surprisingly spacious, luxuriously furnished room, this hotel in a well-renovated 17th-century building is surrounded by the animated Left Bank buzz of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Owned and run by renowned chef Yves Cambdeborde and his wife, the hotel’s restaurant is a simple but very good café-bistrot for weekday lunch and on weekends, while on week nights it morphs into a linen-tablecloth, candlelit gourmet favorite with a reasonable fixed-price fixed menu and a months-long waiting list. Air-conditioned, double-glazed windows (a must in this lively, noisy neighborhood), room service.
7th arrondissement
Hôtel Saint-Vincent
5 rue du Pré-aux-Clercs
Paris 75007
01.42.61.01.51
240€
Johanna
Port de Solférino, Quai Anatole France
Paris 75007
01.45.51.60.83.
Bed and Breakfast on a barge on the Seine.
From €90 per night
8th arrondissement
La Maison Champs-Elysées
8 rue Jean Goujon
Paris 8th
Métro: Franklin D. Roosevelt
01.40.74.64.65
In the high-fashion district around Avenue Montaigne, an elegant hôtel particulier built in 1866 has been redesigned by the fashion house Maison Martin Margiela into a hotel with 40 “boutique” rooms and 17 new “haute-couture” rooms and suites, a lobby lounge, smoking room, a glass-roofed restaurant with a picture-window wall, and an interior garden terrace. The new decor is black and white and witty all over, with trompe l’oeil wallpaper printed with Second Empire moldings, mantelpieces and fireplaces.
Pavillon des Lettres
12 rue des Saussaies
Paris 8th
Métro: Miromesnil
01.49.24.26.26
The sister hotel to the Pavillon de la Reine, this new design hotel has 26 cozy rooms named for literary figures; excerpts from the author's works are stenciled on the walls, and iPads are stocked with best sellers, jazz and classical music. Some suites offer views of the Eiffel Tower. Doubles from €300
9th arrondissement
Côté Montmartre
11 bis rue Jean-Baptiste Pigalle
Paris 75009
01.43.54.33.09.
Bed and Breakfast
From €120 per night
Hôtel Arvor
8 rue Laferrière
Paris 75009
01.48.78.60.92
€125 (€100 in low season)
Hôtel Banke
20 rue La Fayette
Paris 9th
01.55.33.22.22.
A luxurious boutique hotel transformed from an ornately classical bank building. The monumental lobby has a theatrical red, black and gold color scheme, but the rooms offer understated luxury, innovative design and extreme comfort. Doubles from €190
Hôtel Jules
49-51 rue Lafayette
Paris 75009
01.42.85.05.44.
Hôtel Jules is a breath of fresh air on the Paris hotel scene. Six junior suites sport 1970s-style zebra-patterned rugs and lamp bases made of magnum wine bottles. Loaded with personality and charm, the Jules brings a touch of bohemian luxe to an authentically Parisian neighborhood.
Doubles from € 250
Résidence Nell
60 rue Richer
Paris 9th
Métro: Grands Boulevards, Richelieu-Drouot
01.53.24.98.98
In one of the city’s liveliest neighborhoods, a cocoon of calm and luxury designed for any length of stay, from a single night to an entire month. Designer Patrick Jouin’s agency JouinManku has created 17 spacious, beautifully appointed apartments and studios: uncluttered bedrooms, comfortable salons with Ligne Roset sofas and Murano glass lamps, tiled bathrooms with oversized Italian showers, cleverly designed kitchenettes. High-tech touches include flat-screen TVs, iPod docks and Wi-Fi.
Villa Clara
17 Cité Malesherbes
Paris 75009
01.45.26.19.31.
A unique private mansion with a wrought-iron gate and a cobbled, leafy courtyard, tucked away in a historic gated alley at the foot of the legendary artists' quarter of Montmartre.
Bed and Breakfast
From € 180 euros per night
16th arrondissement
Hôtel du Bois
11 rue du Dôme
Paris 75016
01.45.00.31.96
Just off the Avenue Victor Hugo and not far from the Champs-Elysées, the hotel was completely renovated in 2008. Popular with French visitors to Paris, it offers 39 large, elegantly decorated rooms with Pierre Frey fabrics in slate gray and yellow or chocolate and lilac. Handsome marble baths have Moribito toiletries. Queen-sized beds, air-conditioning, free WiFi, room service.
Hôtel Saint James Paris
43 ave Bugeaud
Paris 16th
Métro: Porte Dauphine
01.44.05.81.81
In a residential area of the 16th, a hotel in a 1892 private mansion, with 48 large rooms and suites—plus a pair of three-story apartments—redesigned in 2010 in an eccentric style christened “crazy chic”. Rooms are inspired by Empress Elizabeth of Austria, Parisian decorator Madeleine Castaing and Chinese porcelain; lush fabrics mix with flea-market furnishings. The original wood-paneled library—now the bar—remains untouched. Doubles from €370.
Hôtel Shangri-La
10 ave d'Iéna
Paris 16th
Métro: Iéna
01.53.67.19.98
The palatial 19th-century mansion built for Prince Roland Bonaparte has been completely restored and renovated—the original reception rooms, ballroom and private apartments are listed as historic monuments; above them, the 54 rooms and 27 suites are sumptuously decorated with custom-made furnishings, artwork and antiques. Doubles from €750.
Le 6 Mandel
6 ave Georges Mandel
Paris 75016
01.42.27.27.93.
Bed and Breakfast
From €270 per night
18th arrondissement
Hôtel Particulier Montmartre
23 ave Junot
Paris 75018
01.53.41.81.40
390€
Une Chambre à Montmartre
18 rue Gabrielle
Paris 75018
06.82.84.65.28.
Bed and Breakfast
From €130 per night