Slumber in style: these boutique Parisian hotels deliver more than a soupçon of groovy.
If you are going to attract 78 million tourists a year, then the least you can do is have somewhere nice for them to sleep. In Paris, the nicest place to stay is the boutique hotel, that paean to art, design and aesthetics. Today’s boutique hotels go beyond the gilt to give us an even greater luxury – individuality. These smaller, more personal places reflect the character of the area they are in, the people who own them and the people who stay in them. You don’t get cookie-cutter bedrooms, you get personality, humour, whimsy, art and vodka-filled chocolates. And the people who stay in them are just as interesting as you are. Here is the pick of the bunch in Paris today. Some may not have mini-bars, or even lobbies, others are too hip to have keys, but they all brilliantly reflect different facets of this wonderful, romantic city. In any one of these boutique hotels you could not be anywhere but Paris.
Hôtel Le A4 Rue d’Artois (8e).
Hôtel Amour8 Rue Navarin (9e).
Hôtel Keppler
10 Rue Keppler (16e).
Hôtel du Petit Moulin29-31 Rue du Poitou (3e).Hôtel le Placide6 Rue Saint-Placide (6e).Hôtel Odéon Saint-Germain13 Rue Saint-Sulpice (6e).Hôtel Sezz6 Avenue Frémiet (16e).Hôtel Thérèse5-7 Rue Thérèse (1er).Murano Urban Resort13 Boulevard du Temple (3e).Source: Qantas the Australian Way November 2008