- Best for Families: An affordable Left Bank choice is the Hotel de Fleurie, 32-34 rue Gregoire-de-Tours, 6e (tel. 01-53-73-70-00), in the heart of St-Germain-des-Pres. The accommodations are thoughtfully appointed, and many connecting rooms with two large beds are perfect for families. Children younger than 12 stay free with a parent.
- Best Value: Not far from the Champs-Elysees, the Residence Lord Byron, 5 rue Chateaubriand, 8e (tel. 01-43-59-89-98), is a classy little getaway that's far from opulent, but is clean and comfortable and worth every euro.
- Best Location: Only a 2-minute walk from Paris's most historic and beautiful square, Hotel de la Place des Vosges, 12 rue de Birague, 4e (tel. 01-42-72-60-46), is a little charmer. In a building 350 years old, it is small and inviting, with some decorative touches that evoke the era of Louis XIII.
- Best View: Of the 33 rooms at the Hotel du Quai Voltaire, 19 quai Voltaire, 7e (tel. 01-42-61-50-91), 28 open onto views of the Seine. If you stay here, you'll be following in the footsteps of Wilde, Baudelaire, and Wagner. This 17th-century abbey was transformed into a hotel back in 1856 and has been welcoming guests who appreciate its tattered charms ever since.
- Best for Nostalgia: If you yearn for a Left Bank "literary" address, make it the Odeon Hotel, 3 rue de l'Odeon (tel. 01-43-25-90-67), in the heart of the 6th Arrondissement, filled with the ghosts of Gide, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Joyce, and Stein and Toklas. Evoking a Norman country inn, this charming hotel lures guests with its high crooked ceilings, exposed beams, and memories of yesterday.
- Best-Kept Secret: Built in 1913 and long in a seedy state, the fully restored Terrass Hotel, 12 rue Joseph-de-Maistre, 18e (tel. 01-44-92-34-14), is now the only four-star choice in Montmartre, an area not known for luxury accommodations. Its rooms take in far-ranging views of the Tour Eiffel, Arc de Triomphe, and Opera Garnier.
- Best Historic Hotel: Inaugurated by Napoleon III in 1855, the Hotel du Louvre, place Andre-Malraux, 1er (tel. 800/888-4747 in the U.S. and Canada or 01-44-58 38-38 in France), was once described by a French journalist as "a palace of the people, rising adjacent to the palace of kings." Today, the hotel offers luxurious accommodations and panoramic views down avenue de l'Opera.
- Most Trendy Hotel: It's all the rage. Right off the Champs-Elysees, Hotel Le A, 4 rue d'Artois, 8e (tel. 01-42-56-99-99), forsakes the traditional for a style so contemporary that it could be called avant-garde. It's as if the Paris hotel scene is reinventing itself with modern technology.
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