The catch at Grands Boulevards Experimental

The Petit Boulevard, the entry double, is 15 m² over the courtyard, with a queen bed under a curtain canopy and a shower, for two adults at most. The Petit Boulevard Balcony gives up a square metre, at 14 m², for a balcony over the same courtyard, and the Petit Boulevard Single is 13 m² for one. The Saint Fiacre rooms add three square metres at 18 m² and are still shower only. The first bath comes with the Uzes at 21 m², and even there some rooms have a shower instead. Room size is the complaint guests raise most often, and at €261 for two on a February night the entry room buys a bed in the middle of Paris rather than a room to spend the afternoon in.

Boulevard Poissonnière is busy with theatres, cafés and traffic well into the evening, and street noise in the rooms that face it is the other complaint guests repeat. The Uzes rooms and the Grand Boulevard suite face the boulevard and nothing else; the Saint Fiacre, Saint Fiacre Balcony and Parisian Eaves categories are sold with either outlook; the three Petit Boulevard categories all face the courtyard. The courtyard is the answer to the traffic, but it is also where the restaurant is, and the hotel hires the restaurant out whole for private events. On those nights the party can be heard in some rooms.

What the hotel has is a restaurant, two bars, meeting rooms, room service, a concierge and a lift to every floor. It has no spa and no pool, and it does not offer parking: it points drivers to a partner car park two minutes away. There is no shuttle either, though reception will arrange a private transfer from the airports or the stations at extra cost. Charles de Gaulle is about 35 minutes by car off-peak. None of this matters much once you are here, because Grands Boulevards Métro, on lines 8 and 9, is a minute from the door.

The Petit Boulevard rooms take two adults at most. Every other category takes two adults plus a child or a baby, and the Grand Boulevard suite is the only one with a sofa bed. Cots are free up to the age of three and children's menus are available on request, but there is no childcare of the hotel's own; reception can arrange it through an outside provider. Connecting rooms exist among the Petit Boulevard, Petit Boulevard Balcony and Saint Fiacre Balcony categories, subject to availability. Bathtubs are found only in the Uzes, Parisian Eaves and Grand Boulevard categories, and each of those is sold with either a bath or a shower. The minimum age to check in is 18, and pets are not allowed.

None of the prices on these pages includes the Paris city tax, which the hotel adds to the bill: €8.45 per adult per night for a four-star hotel in 2026, so €50.70 for two people over three nights. The prices are also for a Tuesday night in February, and the calendar moves them. August is the cheapest month here and June the dearest, so a June stay will cost well above these figures, and the tax is charged on every night of it.