Cheap hotels and hostels in Paris

I am off to Paris for the weekend 25-27 February. can anyone recommend any nice little hotels? I have used all the search machines and the same ones all keep being churned out, so i was wondering if anyone has any "Geheimtipps". Location is less important as long as it has good connection (ie Metro) to the Stade de France and all important sights.

Thanks for any help!

Go to google and type in alistair sawdays special places to stay. He is a travel writer and has an interactive map of paris which helps you find a hotel by area. I only ever use him now for France and he has come up trumps every time!

Hotel Tiquetonne, rue Tiquetonne, I can give you the number tomorrow/night if you ask me. No breakfast, no hall, just a lift to your room. Super simple. But super-cheap and super central (behind Centre Pompidou).

Or search for "paris", I'm sure Bubble Gum or someone had a good tip last autumn...

Hotel Paris Rivoli
19 Rue De Rivoli
75004, paris

0033 1 42 72 62 12

Very nice, good value, Nice b'fast, on the Metro , Rue De Rovoli right near the Town Hall & Pompidou Centre

If they are full, don't accept a room at their "other" hotel...it's not so good

JB and Rose&Pete have recommended hotels which are very conveniently located if you are able to get a room there.

Normally I stay with a friend of mine in Paris, however I wasn't able to recently and ended up staying in one of these apartment/hotels. It was close to Republique which is also close to the action and the rue Oberkampf around the corner allowed us to get fresh food everyday to take advantage of the kitchenette in the room. All this depends on how much you feel like fixing your own food. The rooms were clean by the way...

Citadines - Republique

You'll want to take the RER, the Parisian equivalent of the S-Bahn, from Chatelet-Les Halles (avoid that area at night by the way) to the stadium.

You should be able to get away with spending less than €100 a night on acceptable lodging. Here is a reliable site that you can try...

www.ratestogo.com

my french friend recommends this place - this is where she sends people going to Paris for weekends, rugby etc. Never stayed there myself but friends have...

Hotel Vendome Saint Germain
8 rue d'arras
75005 paris
tel 01 43 26 60 37 / 01 43 26 80 98

Have you read this thread?

Paris thread

I was there for a week last July and stayed at Hotel Darcet. It's a few blocks away from the Moulin Rouge just off the Place de Clichy metro stop. It's not the fanciest of places, but it did the job for only about 50 EUR a night.

Thanks for all your tips, keep em coming!

i have done some more looking, and i have a further question: what is the are around Gare du Nord like. I have found a hotel there handy for the airport and the stadium but i am a bit hesitant of staying somewhere near a main station (just look at the are around any Hauptbahnhof in Germany).

Anything in the Gare du Nord area should really be avoided if at all possible. Comparatively speaking the area is a LOT worse than around the main station in Munich.

Check into train passes. I think they sell three day tickets, and you'll want one for zone 1 (or whatever the innermost zone is). You might need a passport sized photo for it, but I'm not sure. That might just be for the week long tickets and longer, but you should check. It'll also cost you about 8 EUR each way from the airport (lots of zones).

If you are driving, be wary of where you park overnight. Went there with my wife last year, drove our VW Golf and had our parking lights and VW emblem stolen. We were in a decent area, not high class, not a slum, and it was gone after one night. VW's are supposedly big targets for thieves though.

thanks for the tip. I don't drive a VW thought, so no problem there. And i will probably fly if i am going alone.

IMHO France is a big target for thieves, in particular tourists in France.

My FRENCH friend with a left hand drive Citroen still had her english plates on when she returned home from studying, and the locals in Bordeaux kicked the shit out of her car. They also kicked in my car and slashed 2 tyres. Lovely...

And no, Owain avoid the Gare du Nord. Stick to the places in the centre, they're easy enough to reach.

Anything on metro line 1 in the center is a good place to stay. but in the middle of the line. check out the other thread for hotel recommendations.

yep, anything further out runs the risk of being in Ghetto land, and Paris has some particularly rough ones...

and actually supposedly having German plates is a bad thing. I guess there is still a fair amount of animosity by the French against Germany over WW2. My wife went with her class on a school trip when she was about 16 or so, her class got off the train in Paris and apparently a handful of guys in their 20's raised their hands and yelled "Heil Hitler" to them. Pretty nice welcome.

Avoid the Champs Elysees at night too. Way too much riffraff.

Thanks for all your help! i am now sorted with hotel and flight. If anyone has any recommendations for good (but not pricey and not touristy) traditional french restaurants, please post them, since we are planning to celebrate a famous Welsh victory over France by eating their food and drinking their wine.

er, right. So in that case you'll need McDonald's, it's on Champs Elysee...

where are you staying? there is a fab, fab fish restaurant chain, I'll look up the card at home. If not, Rue Tiquetonne (where i recommended a hotel) has some cute local places with great food and wine by the jug...

Yeah, there's no such thing as affordable French food, as far as I could tell. Over near Notre Dame there's a whole ton of good restaurants that are "reasonably" priced.

By the way, here's a little tip - if you want some tea, get it at McDonalds. It costs an arm and a leg anywhere else.

@JB: Hotel is on the rue Saint Honoré near Les Halles station.

Ok, so too late for Owain but for anyone else who asks, I just found this site, and the hotel I recommended is on there so here are the details:

Hotel Tiquetonne (Eurocheapo hostel website)

Hi guys,
Am planning a trip to Paris (over new year). Would be grateful for any accommodation tips (pref. an apartment or CHEAP hotel for 3 people) or ideas about what you just have to do in Paris over New Year (apart from drink and be merry...)
Thanks!

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Hello TT

anyone who can help me with getting accommodation in Paris for 4 nights ?
Any TT person who knows Paris in-side-out?

thank you in advance.

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The search function (upper right corner) can help you. There are at least half a dozen threads on accommodation in Paris and a host of other useful tips for visits to la ville des lumières.

thanks, I am really looking for someone from paris...also to get some tips...

Hi Kanda,
Not Parisian, c'est moche! But, perhaps this Spanish girl can help? It depends on what your budget is, and what area of Paris you'd rather stay.
For budget, I stayed at Blue Planet Hostel (a few years ago, mind) - Clean, private rooms with bath in some instances. The cool thing (especially for summer in Paris) is that Blue Planet does not require reservations, rooms empty after 3. It is also very close to Gare de Lyon, and a bus/coach to CDG/Orly picks you up around the corner. website: http://www.hostelblueplanet.com/

If you'd rather not do Budget, Hotel Artus is a boutique hotel/gallery - in fact, there is a unique piece of art in every room, and the rooms are fab, especially the marble/glass bath. It is also right on the 5th, so you have fantastic places to walk to and see - Cafe Flore, Deux Magots, Notre Dame - that are incredibly close, and the metro (Porte D'Orleans/4) is quite close as well. website: http://www.artushotel.com/

Hope this helps!
-Petite

PS: only my second or third post - hello, all!

Lourdes Stockholm

thanks, any known hotel in-between these 2 extreams?
there are kids involved as well, and all in all for 8 people
thanks.

If you would care to read the rest of the threads on this same topic as pointed out by Kay at the beginning you would find several budget hotels.

Tiquetonne in Rue de Tiquetonne is central, cheap, clean and quiet; Mercure hotels and Accor hotels may have good offers on rooms for three people; Formule 1 hotels are very cheap, but a bit far from the center.

Decent Hotels in Paris up to 100€

@Panama
As the saying goes, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink.

www.centreparis.com

I dont understand why a local would have special knowledge of hotel spots? Presumably locals already have accommodation.

Anyway, my favorite thing about Paris is walking around the Latin Quarter (5th arrondissement), eating fresh pastries, visiting the sunken gardens and drinking mint tea at the mosquee. The closest metro is Monge.

Or think in this case!

Absolument!

We usually stay here: http://www.le-sevigne.com

The location is perfect and the price is OK as well. Steps from the Saint-Paul Metro station direct in the Marais.

We stayed here:

Hotel Magenta Paris

It is 3 stars, very clean, recently renovated and a great breakfast. In fact, the breakfast (which is included unlike most Paris hotels) was better than a 4* hotel that we stayed at in Austria on the slopes. They have free WiFi and 2 PCs with internet access (if you don't have your laptop) in the lobby.

We got the best prices on Expedia.com but best to check the other hotel sites (HRS.com, Orbitz.de, etc)