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and there are monthly art exhibitions to which guests are invited to the vernissage (opening night). The rooms are of a decent size and the best are Nos 2 and 3 – a triple and a double in the courtyard.

HÔTEL DE NICE Map Hotel €€

01 42 78 55 29; www.hoteldenice.com; 42bis rue de Rivoli, 4e; s/d/tr €80/110/135; Hôtel de Ville

This is an especially warm, family-run place with 23 comfortable rooms. Some have balconies high above busy rue de Rivoli. Reception is on the 1st floor. Every square inch of wall space is used to display old prints, and public areas and bedrooms are full of Second Empire–style furniture, Indian carpets and lamps with fringed shades.

HÔTEL DE LA PLACE DES VOSGES Map Hotel €€

01 42 72 60 46; www.hotelplacedesvosges.com; 12 rue de Birague, 4e; s & d €90-95, ste €150; Bastille;

This superbly situated 17-room hotel is an oasis of tranquillity due south of sublime place des Vosges. The public areas are impressive and the rooms warm and cosy. A tiny lift serves the 1st to 4th floors but it’s stairs only from the ground floor and to the 5th floor. A boon to families is the suite on the top floor with choice views that can accommodate up to four people comfortably.

HÔTEL DU 7E ART Map Hotel €€

01 44 54 85 00; www.paris-hotel-7art.com; 20 rue St-Paul, 4e; s & d €85-145, tw €100-145; St-Paul;

This themed hotel on the south side of rue St-Antoine is a fun place for film buffs – le septième art (the seventh art) is what the French call cinema – and boasts a B&W-movie theme throughout, right down to the tiled floors and the bathrooms. The 23 rooms over five floors – there is no lift – are sizeable and quite different from one another. A single with just a washbasin is €65. Go for room 41 or 42 on the 4th floor; they both have windows facing in two directions.

HÔTEL PARIS FRANCE Map Hotel €€

01 42 78 00 04; www.paris-france-hotel.com; 72 rue de Turbigo, 3e; s €72-98, d €89-129, tw €89-159, tr €109-159; Temple;

This hotel with the inspired name first opened in 1910 but you wouldn’t win any prizes locating vestiges of the Belle Époque here. Rooms are nicely proportioned but try to get one facing the rear as rue Turbigo is a very busy street and even the double-glazing is challenged by the din.

HÔTEL CROIX DE MALTE Map Hotel €€

01 48 05 09 36; www.hotelcroixdemalte-paris.com; 5 rue de Malte, 11e; s €75-85, d €85-95; Oberkampf;

This cheery hotel will have you thinking you’re in the tropics, not Paris. The breakfast room just off the lobby is bathed in light and looks out onto a tiny glassed-in courtyard with greenery and a giant jungle mural; Walasse Ting prints (of parrots mostly) complete the picture. The 40 rooms are in two little buildings, only one of which has a lift.

HÔTEL JEANNE D’ARC Map Hotel €€

01 48 87 62 11; www.hoteljeannedarc.com; 3 rue de Jarente, 4e; s €60-97, d €84-97, tr €116, q €146; St-Paul;

This cosy 36-room hotel near lovely place du Marché Ste-Catherine is a great little base for your peregrinations among the museums, bars and restaurants of the Marais, and almost has a country feel to it (including heated towel rails). About the only thing wrong with this place is that everyone knows about it, so you’ll have to book well in advance.

HÔTEL DAVAL Map Hotel €€

01 47 00 51 23; www.hoteldaval.com; 21 rue Daval, 11e; s/d/tr/q €76/82/105/118; Bastille;

Always a favourite, this 23-room property is a very central option if you’re looking for budget accommodation just off place de la Bastille. What’s more, it’s had a facelift that brings it up at least to the start of the 21st century. Rooms and bathrooms are on the small side and if you’re looking for some peace and quiet choose a back room (eg room 13).

HÔTEL PRATIC Map Hotel €€

01 48 87 80 47; www.hotelpratic.com; 9 rue d’Ormesson, 4e; s €75-105, d €81-121, tr €93-145; St-Paul;

This 23-room hotel, which is opposite the delightful place du Marché Ste-Catherine, has been given another overhaul and the décor – exposed beams, gilt frames, half-timbered or stone walls – is almost too much. Rooms, dispersed over six floors, are rather