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Paris hotel prices track the map more than the star rating. The three areas below are the bookable areas listed for the city, Champs Elysées, Montparnasse and the Latin Quarter, and each one suits a different kind of trip. The six hotels in this guide are two per area, every one linked to its own page, with average rates from about US$62 to about US$506 a night.

Paris Hotels by Area: Which Base Fits Your Trip

Start with the base. Champs Elysées puts the Arc de Triomphe and the Avenue des Champs-Élysées within a few minutes on foot. Montparnasse is organised around Gare Montparnasse, with Montparnasse Tower as its landmark. The Latin Quarter is the student quarter around the Panthéon and Rue Mouffetard. Price follows the same order: the Latin Quarter is the cheapest of the three, Champs Elysées the most expensive, and Montparnasse covers both ends because it mixes conference hotels with small three stars.

The three areas sit in different parts of the city and barely overlap. A first visit usually lands in Champs Elysées or the Latin Quarter. A trip built around a train or a conference lands in Montparnasse.

Paris Hotels in Champs Elysées: Best for First-Timers

The Arc de Triomphe stands at the centre of this area, and Charles de Gaulle-Étoile station brings Metro lines 1, 2 and 6 plus RER A to its edge. Avenue Carnot and the streets behind it are quiet and residential, a few minutes from the avenue's shops, which makes this the calm side of a busy postcode.

• Hotel Régence Etoile: 4-star on Avenue Carnot, 170 m from Charles de Gaulle-Étoile station and 650 m from the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, with a restaurant, a bar and lobby bar, a business centre, a conference room and free on-site laundry. Average rate about US$473.
• ELSA, Hotel Paris by Collection Vesper: 4-star on Avenue Carnot, 400 m from the Arc de Triomphe and 610 m from the avenue, with a restaurant, a cafe, a library and coworking space, a buffet breakfast served 07:00 to 10:00 and VIP check-in. Average rate about US$300.

Régence Etoile carries the business kit: conference room, business centre, restaurant and bar, free on-site laundry, and check-out at 12:00. ELSA trades the meeting rooms for a cafe, a library and coworking space, serves breakfast until 10:00 and checks guests out at 11:00. For a first visit that is mostly the Arc, the avenue and the shops, either works. Pick ELSA to save and Régence Etoile to work.

Paris Hotels in Montparnasse: Best for Train Arrivals

Montparnasse works when a train brings you in or takes you out. Gare Montparnasse sends the TGV west to Brittany and the Atlantic coast, and Montparnasse Tower gives the area its skyline. The streets behind the station hold the crêperies, the cinemas and the bistros that have kept the quarter busy since the painters left.

• Pullman Paris Montparnasse: 4-star on Rue du Commandant René Mouchotte, 180 m from Gare Montparnasse, with a 24-hour gym, two restaurants, a sky bar, a business centre, conference rooms and paid on-site parking. Average rate about US$506.
• Timhotel Odessa Montparnasse: 3-star on Rue d'Odessa, 180 m from Edgar Quinet station and 260 m from Montparnasse Tower, with a garden, a restaurant, a buffet breakfast from 06:30 and luggage storage. Average rate about US$201.

Pullman is the conference option: two restaurants, a sky bar, a gym open around the clock and meeting space for a work trip that runs into the evening. It also lists the Catacombs 1.02 km away and Luxembourg Garden 1.48 km away. Timhotel Odessa is the small three star for a night before an early train, with a garden, breakfast from 06:30, check-in from 14:00 and Edgar Quinet station across the road.

Paris Hotels in the Latin Quarter: Best for Budget Stays

The Latin Quarter runs from the Panthéon down to the Seine, with Rue Mouffetard as its market street and the Sorbonne filling the blocks in between. Notre-Dame, the Jardin des Plantes and the bookshops along the river are all inside a walk, and two metro stations serve the area.

• Young and Happy Latin Quarter by Hiphophostels: 2-star on Rue Mouffetard, 290 m from Place Monge station, with a free shared kitchen, a cafe, a lobby bar, lockers and a common TV room. Average rate about US$62.
• Hotel Minerve: 3-star on Rue des Écoles, 190 m from Cardinal Lemoine station and 410 m from the Panthéon, with a restaurant, a 24-hour business centre, coworking space, free luggage storage and free ironing. Average rate about US$251.

Young and Happy is the budget pick, and the shared kitchen keeps food costs down. Minerve is for a private room with a desk, a business centre and a restaurant downstairs, and it suits a longer stay better than a single night. Notre-Dame is about 600 m from its door, the Natural History Museum 470 m from the hostel, and Luxembourg station 1.09 km away if you arrive by train.

Paris Hotels by Price Range

Sorting the six by average rate gives three bands, and none of them lines up with a single area. Budget alone will not pick the base.

Within a band the choice comes down to facilities rather than postcode. Both four stars above US$350 sit where their guests want to be; one gives you a desk and meeting rooms, the other a gym and two restaurants.

Paris Hotels: Metro, Food and Booking Tips

• Buy the ticket that matches your trip. A single metro ticket covers central Paris, and the airport runs sit outside that zone, on RER B from Charles de Gaulle and on the tram or Metro line 14 from Orly. Work out how many journeys you will actually make before buying a carnet or a pass.
• RER B is the Charles de Gaulle line. It runs through Gare du Nord and Châtelet-Les Halles before it reaches the southern suburbs, so a hotel on Metro lines 1, 2 and 6 with RER A at Charles de Gaulle-Étoile gives you a one-change arrival. The Latin Quarter hotels sit a short walk from Place Monge and Cardinal Lemoine on line 7.
• Bakeries open before the hotel breakfast. The boulangerie on the corner sells croissants and coffee from early morning, and most neighbourhood cafés serve a standing breakfast at the bar. Rue Mouffetard and the streets around Montparnasse keep the best of them, and the street market at the bottom of Rue Mouffetard trades in the mornings and packs up by early afternoon.
• August empties the neighbourhood. Many independent restaurants and shops close for the summer holidays, and the ones that stay open run shorter hours. Spring and autumn are the busiest seasons for the trade fairs that fill the Montparnasse conference hotels, so check the calendar before you fix dates.
• Book the train station you will use. Gare Montparnasse sends the TGV west to Brittany and the Atlantic coast, Gare du Nord and Gare de l'Est cover the north and the east, and the Latin Quarter connects to them on lines 4 and 7. A hotel beside the right station removes a taxi from the last morning.

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