recommend a paris hotel

[lurker]

SWMBO wants to go to paris :roll:

We plan to go via eurostar in Sept.

Can anyone remommend a hotel fairly near the sights & something with a bit of French character (& I dont mean run down & staffed by incompetents) :lol:

 

[Steve Maskery]

Why? It's a dump.

We stayed somewhere, no idea where it was. but we did have a laugh at the English translation of their web page.

The hotel had a policy on pets. I can't remember if it was No Pets or Pets Welcome. But it was pets. Let us, for the sake of this little anecdote, assume that Pets were Welcome.

In English and French there is, occasionally, a meeting of words, although the meanings are not always identical. The French have a word for "pets". We have the same word, but it doesn't mean "pets". Oh no, not "pets". The translator had obviously seen that we share the same words, but hadn't actually checked the meaning.

So there, on their front page, for all the world to see, was the friendly invitation "FARTS WELCOME!"

Be careful where you go.

Cheers
Steve

 

[RogerS]

We quite like the TimHotel in Montmartre...get a top floor room and you see Paris laid out before you.

Roger

 

[RogerM]

We stayed at the Villa Mazarin a couple of years ago. Its very close to Notre Dame and all the main sights are walkable or an easy metro ride away. Hotel was quiet, and rooms well appointed. No restaurant, even for breakfast, but we went to a lovely little place around the corner so that really doesn't matter. Also worth checking the hotels own website

We paid about £100 per night in February - but the £/Euro exchange rate was better than it is now. We'd happily stay there again, and it's still rated at 114 out of 1,947 Paris hotels, so in top 6%, on Tripadvisor.

 

[RogerS]

Have to confess that I'm very jaundiced by recommendations in TripAdvisor.

You didn't say what your budget was. You could always treat yourself and stay at the George V :wink:

 

[RogerM]

Have to confess that I'm very jaundiced by recommendations in TripAdvisor.

I agree that the recommendations need interpretation. There will always be someone to relate a bad experience, and of course there are the family/friends/coersed staff who will praise it to the gills. I find the best way to use it is to read the best and worst reviews - often if someone has had a bad experience they will say where they went instead and we then check out that one. Has always worked for us.

So far as Villa Mazarinis concerned, we are neither friends, family or management. Just very happy with our stay there.

 

[lurker]

We stayed at the Villa Mazarin a couple of years ago. Its very close to Notre Dame and all the main sights are walkable or an easy metro ride away. Hotel was quiet, and rooms well appointed. No restaurant, even for breakfast, but we went to a lovely little place around the corner so that really doesn't matter. Also worth checking the hotels own website

We paid about £100 per night in February - but the £/Euro exchange rate was better than it is now. We'd happily stay there again, and it's still rated at 114 out of 1,947 Paris hotels, so in top 6%, on Tripadvisor.

Roger

That meets SWMBO approval - you may have won me brownie points there -Ta

 

[RogerM]

Hope it works well for you lurker. My SWMBO is a difficult customer to please, but she rated it well. If you can get a corner room, they are quite large, especially for a capital city.

We went to the "Pain Quotidien" just around the corner for breakfast. Fresh bread and Croissants baked on the premises - and a lovely "farmhouse kitchen" feel to it. I'm afraid I can't recommend anywhere for dinner. Places we found were either very expensive or very average and not worth recommending.

Loads to see and do - but you're always having to put your hand in your pocket! Nothing like the free National gallery or museums you find in London. If you like art, don't miss Rodin's home - not too expensive and there were some absolutely stunning pieces in there.