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HÔTEL ST-CHRISTOPHE Map Hotel €€

01 43 31 81 54; www.charm-hotel-paris.com; 17 rue Lacépède, 5e; s €122-124, d €134-136; Place Monge;

This classy small hotel is located on a quiet street between rue Monge in the Latin Quarter and the Jardin des Plantes. The 32 rooms are hardly what you would call spectacular, but they are well-equipped and there are five sizes and shapes to choose from. The welcome is always particularly warm at this Logis de France ‘charm hotel’.

HÔTEL DU LEVANT Map Hotel €€

01 46 34 11 00; www.hoteldulevant.com; 18 rue de la Harpe, 5e; s €100-120, d €118-145, tw €160, tr €175-215, q €235-255, ste €300-320; Cluny La Sorbonne or St-Michel;

It’s hard to imagine anything more central than this 47-room hotel in the heart of the Latin Quarter; you’ll never lack for a kebab day or night. The lobby, done up in yellows and reds, is warm and welcoming; the breakfast room is nicely decorated with a large faux naïf mural and lots of 19th-century fashion engravings. Rooms are of a decent size, with furnishings two steps beyond pure functional, and feature modern bathrooms.

HÔTEL DES GRANDES ÉCOLES Map Hotel €€

01 43 26 79 23; www.hotel-grandes-ecoles.com; 75 rue du Cardinal Lemoine, 5e; s & d €110-135, tr €125-155; Cardinal Lemoine or Place Monge;

This wonderful, very welcoming 51-room hotel just north of place de la Contrescarpe has one of the loveliest situations in the Latin Quarter, tucked away in a courtyard off a medieval street with its own private garden. Choose a room in one of three buildings but our favourites are those in the garden annexe, especially the five that are on the ground floor and have direct access to the garden (rooms 29 to 33).

HÔTEL MINERVE Map Hotel €€

01 43 26 26 04; www.parishotelminerve.com; 13 rue des Écoles, 5e; s €90-125, d €106-136, tr €156-158; Cardinal Lemoine;

We make no secret of our love affair with this 54-room hotel and the people Click here who run it. Housed in two Haussman buildings and owned by the same family who run the Familia Hôtel (below) next door, the Minerve has a reception area kitted out in Oriental carpets and antique books, which the affable owner/manager collects, and some of the rooms have been enlarged. We like the frescoes of French monuments and reproduction 18th-century wallpaper. Some 10 rooms have small balconies, eight with views of Notre Dame and two have tiny courtyards that are swooningly romantic. Complimentary breakfast buffet is included.

HÔTEL ST-JACQUES Map Hotel €€

01 44 07 45 45; www.hotel-saintjacques.com; 35 rue des Écoles, 5e; s €92, d €105-137, tr €168; Maubert Mutualité;

This very stylish 38-room hotel has rooms with balconies overlooking the Panthéon. Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant, who filmed some scenes of Charade here in the 1960s, would commend the mod cons that complement the original 19th-century details (trompe l’oeil ceilings that look like cloud-filled skies, an iron staircase and so on). The cabaret-themed breakfast room and comments book in the lobby is a welcome touch.

FAMILIA HÔTEL Map Hotel €€

01 43 54 55 27; www.familiahotel.com; 11 rue des Écoles, 5e; s €86, d & tw €103-124, tr €161-173, q €184; Cardinal Lemoine;

This very welcoming and well-situated family run hotel has sepia murals of Parisian landmarks in most rooms and is one of the most attractive ‘almost budget’ options on this side of the Seine. Eight rooms have little balconies, from which you can catch a glimpse of Notre Dame; the choicest rooms which carry a premium – are rooms 61, 62 and 65 (the last has a four-poster bed). We love the flower-bedecked window, the lovely parquet floors and the complimentary breakfast.

HÔTEL DU COLLÈGE DE FRANCE Map Hotel €€

01 43 26 78 36; www.hotel-collegedefrance.com; 7 rue Thénard, 5e; s €89, d €99-135; Maubert Mutualité;

Close to its prestigious educational namesake, this hotel has 29 rooms that are basic and very similar; avoid the dark ones facing the courtyard and go for those overlooking the quiet street, especially the rooms with two windows. The lobby, with its fireplace, stained glass