This site is the result of the combined efforts of 6 young Parisian webmasters: Tony, Jimmy, Lolo, Sylvain, Michel and Aude. We are enthusiastic about our city, and we wanted to share the information we have in a meaningful way with people planning on coming to Paris.

We visited dozens of hotels, and selected those which offered the best value for money according to us.

As you will observe, a number of these hotels are a bit 'off-centered from downtown Paris'. It's a common misconception to divide Paris into 'downtown Paris' and 'elsewhere in Paris'. Here is why:

Paris is a closed city. It was encircled by various layers of ramparts. When the city would outgrow its ramparts, new ones were built further away. This occurred several times in Paris's history, and each time, the city absorbed neighboring villages in its new limits. Which really made Paris a 'collection of small villages'. At the end of the 19th century, major reconstruction efforts levelled out a large part of the old city to give the right bank of the Seine a new, more uniform face. Yet, still today, there are many Parisian neighborhoods, each with its own character. And this does away with the idea of a 'downtown Paris'. There is definitely a center to the city, but it's not a 'downtown' in the common meaning of the term.

Moreover, because the public transportation system is so developed within the city and its outskirts, it takes no more than 20-25 minutes to reach Notre Dame cathedral (the exact center of Paris) from any point located at the utmost limit of the city (what Parisians call 'les portes', or 'the gates', the older city entrance gates opened in the ramparts).

So it may make a lot of sense for those of you with a small purse to select a hotel in the 15th, the 14th or the 19th district for half the cost of a room in the 1st or the 5th, yet with no trade-off in terms of quality of bedding and service. Even more so since the off-centered location of their hotel makes hotel owners very eager to please tourists: word-of-mouth is a major source of business for these guys.

OK, here is to conclude: we are definitely interested in reading your comments and reading your mail. If you have anything to write about, good or bad, in regards to your own experience with the hotels we picked, please please pretty please, send us a mail at contact@hotels-paris-hotels-france.com

One last word: we do not get commissions to recommend such and such hotel. And when you book a room, you book directly with the hotel.

So thank you so very much for visiting us, and to get back to the English home page, click on this link.

Tony, Jimmy, Lolo, Sylvain, Michel and Aude.

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