I made a video of my lunch run to the Tuileries Gardens, visited an apartment-hotel near Rue Mouffetard, and attended a police demonstration on the Ile de la Cité. And finally, some good news for vaccinated Americans ready to return to France!
Tag - hotel
There are over 1500 hotels in Paris from budget dives to luxury palaces. So how do you choose? There are four main considerations when choosing a hotel in Paris: location, price, comfort, and style.
One of my good friends here in Paris has a theory that “the discount price is the real price, and anyone who pays the full price is a fool.” Well, I prefer to think that those who can pay the full price are subsidizing those of us who can’t...
I’ve only ever lived in the 9th and 10th of Paris, but most of my tour clients never stayed in these areas. Moreover, the guidebooks I update all the time have very few worthwhile hotels to recommend in this area, a sort of no-man’s land between Pigalle and...
It’s hard enough fining a hotel that fulfills the three ideal requirements of location, price and comfort, but then you have to worry about exactly which room you’re going to get (unless of course you book the Shangri-La’s eponymous...
Sometimes, to lock in a good rate for a hotel, you need to pre-pay your room, no cancellations or date changes possible. Now if your travel plans change (or you find somewhere better to stay), you can resell those booking to other travelers on the...
I rarely have tour clients who book rooms at the Best Western affiliated hotels in Paris. I think people are afraid it will be a generic chain hotel. But in fact the hotels are all independent. They are simply members of the Best Western marketing group that...
It's the Mandarin Oriental. It's on the Rue St-Honoré. How bad could the bar be? Mon dieu, don't ask...
Want to sleep on the Eiffel Tower, inside the Musée d'Orsée, or at the Moulin Rouge? A new boutique hotel in the 9th arrondissement helps recreate famous Paris scenes...
Here are a few eco-friendly Paris hotel and B&B options...
10 rue du Champ de Mars, 7th, tel 01 40 62 67 00. Contemporary boutique hotel just off the Rue Cler with a gourmet chocolate bar in the lobby...
223 Blvd Voltaire, 11th, tel 01 43 71 27 57. A contemporary boutique hotel between the Bois de Vincennes and Bastille district...
