Best value hotels in Paris

On a low-season night in February, our ten start from about €260 at Grands Boulevards Experimental and €285 at Le Pigalle, the two four-stars. The five-stars start from about €380 at Hôtel Molitor Paris to €595 at Hôtel Madame Rêve, and the four Palaces from about €1,470 at Mandarin Oriental Lutetia, Paris to €2,190 at Hôtel de Crillon, A Rosewood Hotel. VAT is in the room price, and every hotel adds the city tax per adult per night: €8.45 at a four-star, €11.70 at a five-star and €15.93 at a Palace. Under-18s pay nothing.

It depends on the hotel. At Le Pigalle February is the cheapest month and September the dearest; at Grands Boulevards Experimental August is the cheapest and June the dearest. Across Paris, the fashion weeks and the big trade fairs lift prices: in 2027 men's fashion week runs from 19 to 24 January, women's from 1 to 9 March and 27 September to 5 October, and the Salon de l'Agriculture from 27 February to 7 March. The quietest stretches are early January, once Paris schools go back on 4 January, and the days between 22 February and the Salon.

Yes, and the entry rooms here are compact: the Pigalle 15 at Le Pigalle is 14 to 16 m², and the Petit Boulevard at Grands Boulevards Experimental 15 m², with a queen bed under a canopy. The smart spend is a bigger room. A Pigalle 21 adds 5 to 7 m², two basins and a turntable, and the Parisian Eaves is 23 m² under exposed beams, with a bathtub for two or a large shower. For the most space, Le Pigalle's one suite, the Pigalle 35, is 35 m² under the roof, and the 32 m² Grand Boulevard suite has the only sofa bed at Grands Boulevards Experimental.

It depends on your rate, so check what yours includes. At Grands Boulevards Experimental breakfast comes with the bed-and-breakfast rates and is served in the courtyard under the glass roof, and every room has a coffee machine. At Le Pigalle breakfast is ordered from the menu until 4pm and paid for dish by dish unless your rate includes it, from €4 for a croissant with the house jam. Next door, Café Pigalle pours espresso from 8.30am on weekdays and 9am at weekends.

Both are five minutes by taxi from the Gare du Nord rank, which makes either an easy Eurostar weekend. For flights, a taxi from the Terminal 2 rank at Charles de Gaulle takes about 33 minutes to Le Pigalle and 35 to Grands Boulevards Experimental with the roads clear, at the flat €56 Right Bank fare. Or take the RER B, 25 to 30 minutes into Paris by way of Gare du Nord, on the €14 airport ticket, and finish with the five-minute taxi ride.

Independently, through extensive research, trusted sources and first-hand visits. Hotels cannot pay to be included, and every one of the ten has to exist for a different reason.