Best area/place to stay in in Paris?

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Bonjour,

Looking at taking budget(ish) break with the Mrs to gay Paris (say it with a French accent if you must) but I've no idea where abouts in the city to stay. We're just wanting to do the normal touristy sight seeing possibly with Eurodisney and she'll probably be wanting to do some shopping after she works out my credit card pin...

Anyway I have no idea where abouts is central to major touristy things and I wonder if someone could perhaps enlighten me the area place to stay or better yet recommend a reasonable hotel around the *** mark?

Merci,

G

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mrmaggit said:

Bruges.

no no no... FRANCE.

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Cheers for that guys. You've given me a good starting point! I've seen some nice hotels by the Louvre so far. As I said I'm more interested in doing the touristy thing I'm afraid. I'll wander off the beaten track myself if I fancy practising my grade C french.

Shame the exchange rate is so fking awful at the moment.

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euroboy said:

Last time we went, we stayed in the 9th - otherwise known as the Latin Quarter in this hotel:

www.thefivehotel.com

Its a design/boutique hotel (so its small!) but its very very cosy and I have never stayed in a hotel quite like it.... they are also able to pull some strings; they got us decent seats at the Moulin Rouge on a Saturday night with only 24hrs notice, weekend nights are usually booked up 2-3 weeks in advance.

You definately get what you pay for in Paris.

"In its determination to create a different world, the Five Hotel has used one of the most noble of Asian arts: lacquer"

Lol?

Nah that one looks a bit fruity for my liking. I don't want to have to stay in any room that gets referred to as "the prune room".

Cheers for the input though!

Edited by G_T on Thursday 5th March 09:42

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Landlord said:

*Raz* said:

oooh i really want to go Paris

Really? I may be able to make that possible... do you, err, know what speaks french and loves blow jobs?

How creepy.

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Yeah it's easiest to remember it as a snail or "escargot" isn't it? From what I remember at GCSE anyway.

That place is a little pricey for me. We're looking at going away a few times this year and I'm desperately trying not to go mental with it...

I think renting an apartment might be the way forward to be honest.

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Landlord said:

G_T said:

Landlord said:

*Raz* said:

oooh i really want to go Paris

Really? I may be able to make that possible... do you, err, know what speaks french and loves blow jobs?

How creepy.

In a good way?

Well unless she's got in touch with you I think you can safely say... "Non".

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Rude-boy said:

G_T said:

Yeah it's easiest to remember it as a snail or "escargot" isn't it? From what I remember at GCSE anyway.

That place is a little pricey for me. We're looking at going away a few times this year and I'm desperately trying not to go mental with it...

I think renting an apartment might be the way forward to be honest.

Have a good look on the Eurostar Website. They were very reasonable in the end. 1st Class Train there and back, 4 nights in the hotel and it was just south of £1,000.

I didn't have much choice when I was looking though as it was a surprise for the g/f and the only thing I asked her was what facilities did the hotel have to have. She said a swimming pool and steam room or sauna. Have you any idea how many hotels in Paris have swimming pools? I think i found 6 that weren't the other side of CDG!

Again £1000 is a bit much and I live in Edinburgh so getting the train isn't really an option as it will take a day to get South. I've found the flights for £180 and accomadation is coming out at ~£500 for 3* or an apartment.

£680 = For travel and 4 nights half-decent accomadation is bargain IMO. It works out about the same to get the train to London and stay there..