Post by Anne on Sept 16, 2008 4:08:43 GMT -5
This is a place that I found by chance on the web, it did have very few reviews when I booked it since it only opened in 2007, but it happens to be an excellent choice . Here is the website : www.bonne-nuit-paris.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
It is located on 63 rue Charlot in the 3rd arr., a very quiet narrow street but very close to bustling rue de Bretagne and its Enfants Rouges food market, and a little further is the Square du Temple public garden .
It is an ancient house, the three guest rooms are on the 1st (French) floor (= American 2nd ?) and the owner family lives upstairs, you only go there for breakfast in the lovely family dining-room . For the rest of the time, you are totally independant from the family .
The owner is very friendly (yet not intrusive), I already had excellent contact with him when emailing for my booking . AND he speaks fluent English .
Here are a few pics from my bedroom, Jardin du Marais :
As you can see, the bedroom can host three people, and it is also located on a private landing together with another bedroom, so if a family rents the two bedrooms together they can lock the landing and keep the bedrooms doors opened and be on their own (there is also an additional toilet on this private landing) .
Anyway, the room was big enough, very nicely furnished, with a comfortable bed with a duvet . The only downside for me was that the shower is what we call an Italian one (very trendy these days), i.e. no shower bottom, the water goes directly down a drain in the floor, but since the bathroom is very small the area in front of the washbowl gets splashed too . A minor disagreement though ... I know that the fact that there is no TV and no AC may be a downside for some of you, but honestly I don't think that the AC is in any way necessary here, the rooms are not on top floors and the street is quite narrow so I doubt that the rooms get direct sun any time during the day .
Here is the breakfast room upstairs :
Breakfast was excellent O.J., tea for me, fresh bread and croissants with a selection of delicious homemade jams and honey from the owners' property in the countryside .
I know that many of you prefer staying in an appartment while in Paris (BTW, the owner told me that he is also going to create an appartment for short-term rents in the same building by next spring), but this is an address to keep if you are only staying in Paris for one or two night . It is also a keeper for first-timers who don't speak French and are afraid of the impersonality of hotels .
Anyway, I will gladly stay there again !
It is located on 63 rue Charlot in the 3rd arr., a very quiet narrow street but very close to bustling rue de Bretagne and its Enfants Rouges food market, and a little further is the Square du Temple public garden .
It is an ancient house, the three guest rooms are on the 1st (French) floor (= American 2nd ?) and the owner family lives upstairs, you only go there for breakfast in the lovely family dining-room . For the rest of the time, you are totally independant from the family .
The owner is very friendly (yet not intrusive), I already had excellent contact with him when emailing for my booking . AND he speaks fluent English .
Here are a few pics from my bedroom, Jardin du Marais :
As you can see, the bedroom can host three people, and it is also located on a private landing together with another bedroom, so if a family rents the two bedrooms together they can lock the landing and keep the bedrooms doors opened and be on their own (there is also an additional toilet on this private landing) .
Anyway, the room was big enough, very nicely furnished, with a comfortable bed with a duvet . The only downside for me was that the shower is what we call an Italian one (very trendy these days), i.e. no shower bottom, the water goes directly down a drain in the floor, but since the bathroom is very small the area in front of the washbowl gets splashed too . A minor disagreement though ... I know that the fact that there is no TV and no AC may be a downside for some of you, but honestly I don't think that the AC is in any way necessary here, the rooms are not on top floors and the street is quite narrow so I doubt that the rooms get direct sun any time during the day .
Here is the breakfast room upstairs :
Breakfast was excellent O.J., tea for me, fresh bread and croissants with a selection of delicious homemade jams and honey from the owners' property in the countryside .
I know that many of you prefer staying in an appartment while in Paris (BTW, the owner told me that he is also going to create an appartment for short-term rents in the same building by next spring), but this is an address to keep if you are only staying in Paris for one or two night . It is also a keeper for first-timers who don't speak French and are afraid of the impersonality of hotels .
Anyway, I will gladly stay there again !