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AUSTIN’S ARTS ET MÉTIERS HÔTEL Map Hotel €€

01 42 77 17 61; www.hotelaustins.com; 6 rue Montgolfier, 3e; s/d €108/148; Arts et Métiers;

This three-star hotel southwest of place de la République and hard by the Musée des Arts et Métiers stands out primarily for its warm welcome and excellent service. The 29 rooms are minimally furnished but attractively done up in reds, yellows and blues. The brightest rooms face the street, while the largest ones overlook the courtyard. Choose 12 if, like us, you like a bathroom with a window. There is a sister hotel, Austin’s St-Lazare Hôtel opposite Gare St-Lazare.

HÔTEL BASTILLE SPÉRIA Map Hotel €€

01 42 72 04 01; www.hotel-bastille-speria.com; 1 rue de la Bastille, 4e; s €103-131, d €135-160, tw €152-170; Bastille;

This 42-room hotel is within spitting distance of place de la Bastille offers good value for its location. The rooms are nothing to write home about but some of them (103, for example) sit on the corner and boast two windows. Bathrooms are modern and relatively large.

HÔTEL CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS Map Boutique Hotel €€

01 42 72 34 12; www.carondebeaumarchais.com; 12 rue Vieille du Temple, 4e; r €125-162; St-Paul; Filles du Calvaire;

Decorated like an 18th-century private house contemporary with Beaumarchais, who wrote Le Mariage de Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) at No 47 on this street, this award-winning themed hotel has to be seen to be believed. The small, museum-quality lobby, with its prized 18th-century pianoforte, gaming tables and original Beaumarchais manuscripts, sets the tone of the place. The 19 rooms aren’t huge but are positively dripping in brocade, furniture decorated with tracery, and ormolu-framed mirrors. The welcome can verge on the scary.

HÔTEL DE LA BRETONNERIE Map Hotel €€

01 48 87 77 63; www.bretonnerie.com; 22 rue Ste-Croix de la Bretonnerie, 4e; s & d €125-160, ste €185-210; Hôtel de Ville;

This is a very charming three-star hotel in the heart of the Marais nightlife area dating from the 17th century. The décor of each of the 22 rooms and seven suites is unique, and some rooms have four-poster and canopy beds. Three ‘duplex’ suites on two levels are huge and can easily accommodate three or four people.

GRAND HÔTEL MALHER Map Hotel €€

01 42 72 60 92; www.grandhotelmalher.com, in French; 5 rue Malher, 4e; s €95-120, d €115-140, ste €170-185; St-Paul;

This welcoming establishment run by the same family for three generations has nicely appointed rooms and a small but pretty courtyard at the back. The hotel’s 31 bedrooms are a decent size, and the bathrooms are modern and relatively large; most are equipped with a bath and a few with a shower. Rooms 1 and 2 give on to the courtyard.

HÔTEL SAINTONGE MARAIS Map Hotel €€

01 42 77 91 13; www.hotelmarais.com; 16 rue Saintonge, 3e; s/d/tr €105/115/140, ste €170; Filles du Calvaire;

This renovated 23-room hotel, with exposed beams, vaulted cellar and period furniture, is really more Oberkampf/République than the Marais. But with the Musée Picasso practically next door, let’s not quibble. You’ll get much better value for money here than in the more central parts of the Marais, including at the Saintonge’s show-off sister property, the Hôtel St-Merry.

HÔTEL ST-LOUIS MARAIS Map Hotel €€

01 48 87 87 04; www.saintlouismarais.com; 1 rue Charles V, 4e; s €99, d & tw €115-140, tr €150, ste €160; Sully Morland;

This especially charming hotel built within a converted 17th-century convent is more Bastille than Marais, but still within easy walking distance of the latter. Wooden beams, terracotta tiles and heavy brocade drapes tend to darken the 19 renovated rooms, but certainly add to the atmosphere. Be aware that this four-floor hotel has no lift.

HÔTEL BEAUMARCHAIS Map Boutique Hotel €€

01 53 36 86 86; www.hotelbeaumarchais.com; 3 rue Oberkampf, 11e; s €75-90, d €110-130, tr €170-190; Filles du Calvaire;

This brighter-than-bright 31-room boutique hotel, with its emphasis on sunbursts and bold primary colours, is just this side of kitsch. But it certainly makes for a different Paris experience,