please name the hotel, apartment, etc, as well as the arrondissement where it is located. in retrospect, would you do anything differently?
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i guess my last line should have read, %26quot;in retrospect, would you have done anything differently%26quot;?
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We stayed at the Elysees Union Hotel in the 16th and we thought it very charming! It is rated number 237 out of 1574 hotels , I see on the tripadvisor rantings. We got it for a better rate than listed and it was very french seeming and quiet! The 16th is not a hopping place at night, but that was alright for us! We could see the Eiffel from our balcony and it is not too far from Arc de Triomphe. Each a.m. we walked down to the Seine and just walked to our destination (stopping at times at the farmers market on Wilson? A modern Art museum also on our route (next to Tokyo musee)(had a great Bonnard exhibit then). We enjoyed these daily strolls along the Seine as the weather was perfect and we were fit and it was just a lovely daily routine! However, maybe next time I would be more central ..in the Latin Quarter (too noisy?) or St. Germain or Marais? But we loved our trip and our hotel only added to the charm! Very near the metro and bus stops (not that we used them much as we are such walkers!). Staff was great and v. friendly and helpful!
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We stayed at what was then called Hotel Nikko. it is now called Novotel Tour Eiffel. We were with a tour group and they booked us there. I%26#39;n not sure of the Arrondisement but it was south of the Tower near the stature of Liberty.
I would never stay there again. It was too far from the nearest metro. It was a large impersonal hotel with walls so thin you could hear people talking in the next room. The staff seemed rather aloof. As we toured the city that week I kept seeing all of these boutigue hotels and saying wow, why aren%26#39;t we staying here?
Alot of Japanese airline employees were staying there and they came and went at all hours. I think I heard them all.
The view from our room was great and the breakfast buffett was good.
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Hi.
This has probably little to do with your question - sorry! But your post put me in mind of my first time in Paris.
I was on a school trip, (more years ago than I care to remember!) We were on a whistle-stop tour of France, spending one night in Paris.
The teacher, an experienced trip organiser, had been unable to book us into the usual %26#39;school-approved%26#39; hotel to which she had been taking girls for twenty years. Imagine her horror, (she was an older, unmarried lady of sheltered upbringing), when she realised that she had booked 40 fifteen year old girls into a seedy hotel in the middle of a red-light district, with various ladies of the night attempting to carry on business regardless of our presence!
To make matters worse, the hotel had mysteriously forgotten to mention that it didn%26#39;t have enough beds for our party, so we were crammed two and three into a bed. The corridors were so unsafe, (at least in the teacher%26#39;s opinion!) that we had to go mob-handed to the loo. Our poor teacher aged ten years overnight! Usually a terrifying and strict presence, she was completely unmanned, (or should that be unwomanned?) by the situation, whilst we found it hilarious!
Unfortunately, I can%26#39;t remember where it was - somewhere very central, though. The evening went further downhill, when, bless her, in a bid to make us feel French, our teacher allowed us to have a quarter bottle of wine - four of us to a table - when we went out that evening. Suffice it to say, it didn%26#39;t go well!
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Micra, that%26#39;s a hilarious story! Much better than my school field trips.
On my first trip, after a lot of research, I stayed at Hotel St-Jacques in the Latin Quarter, mostly for its price and location. I loved the hotel and the neighborhood and on my next trip, I stayed only a few blocks away. I wanted to try a different hotel just to get a different experience. And the next time I go to Paris, I might stay in a different neighborhood to get yet another experience, maybe in one of the less touristy arrondissements. I haven%26#39;t decided. But I would recommend Hotel St-Jacques to anyone.
I remember how hard it was to choose a hotel, and in the end, I just sort of held my breath while I made my decision and hoped for the best. Fortunately, it turned out great.
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Hotel Bonne Nouvelle, Rue Beauregard in the 2nd arr.
www.hotel-bonne-nouvelle.com/index-2.html
That was in August 1973 - my first trip to Paris with my father.
I had never been abroad before (except on a shopping trip to Landskrona on the Swedish coast with my mother and aunt on the small ferry) - so I was deeply impressed by it all. Especially the little marmalades for breakfast were so fascinating ! And there were different ones too !!!! WAUW !!
And in the room they had %26quot;velours%26quot;-wall paper, awesome and STRANGE !
(Yes, I was / am a country-girl, so it didn%26#39;t / doesn%26#39;t take much to impress me, e.g. one day we sat ont the terrace of Café de la Paix, and I had to go to the toilet. OH MY GOD ! There were tiles with floers on it and GOLDEN taps - and as I put in my scrapbook and on the postcard back to mummy and littlesister: %26quot;When you should wipe your hands after washing them there was a big stack of white terry cloths with the cafés NAME embroidered ON IT !! And you could just take one and wipe your hands and then THROW it into a basket just like that !!!!!!!%26quot; - note the exclamation-marks. This was decadent luxury beyond my wildest imagination).
Back in the hotel: there was a small %26quot;bathroom%26quot; with sink and bidet within the room, but the toilet and the shower were in the hallway. I was mad at my father because he would unashamed pee in the bidet ! (In fact I don%26#39;t think I had ever seen a bidet before - but I was sure it was very much forbidden to pee in it)
Only thing to regret ? That there was/is no elevator - we were on the 4th floor, but I was only 15 then, so that just made the experience even more exotic (NOW it would have killed me......)
The place was - as all small Parisian hotels are, mind you - a bonafide firetrap.
I still have the handwritten receipt from the travelagency in my old scrapbook: The price for 1 week for 2 persons including flight, bustransfer, doubleroom, breakfast and dinner-%26quot;coupons%26quot; that we could use as means of payment in a number of local restaurants: 1.326 DKK = 174 euro........
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floers = flowers
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My first trip that wasn%26#39;t a high school tour was in 1985, and I stayed at what was then called the Grand Hotel de Suez at 31 Blvd St. Michel, in the 5th. It was February and it was freezing, but they gave me a room on the Blvd side with the big French windows, and we could barely keep them closed we were so excited. They have dropped the %26quot;Grand%26quot;, refurbished it twice, and added a few amenities, and after all these years, I still stay there.
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I was a hippy, in 1965, hitchhiking across Europe for a year. First night in Paris was spent in jail in the Gare du Nord, because we tried to spend the night sleeping in a subway station (Not a good idea). The gendarmes were then the classic type: little cape and billed hat. They were quite nice, and let us go in the morning as long as we caught a train OUT of Paris.
The people I met then had experiences in WW II and the French Resistance and in French Indo-China (our Vietnam) that have given me a great perspective on current events.
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We stayed in what was then called the Hotel des Jardins des Plantes, in rue Linne near Jussieu Metro and opposite the entrance of the Jardin des Plantes. It is now Timotel Jardin des Plantes and much more expensive (relatively) than it was then.
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