Any ideas about a quiet hotel in Paris will be appreciated. I know is difficult in such a big city but my wife and I hate steet noise and not many hotels in Paris have AC.<BR>Thanks in advance for suggestions.

Hi<BR>what did you want to spend?

We stayed at the Sofitel. It was very quiet, and I am prett sure it was air conditioned as well. I'm sorry I can't think of the exact location- I just remember that it was right next to a big indoor waterpark!

We are on the modest budget arround $100-140 a night.<BR>thanks for the response

Last May we stayed at the Caron de Beaumarchais, in the Marais. On a busy street, but as long as you ask for a

sorry about that interruption.<BR><BR>anyway, ask for a quiet room not facing the street. It is newly redone and though a small room, impeccably clean and charming with a lovely new bathroon.<BR><BR>Nice ample continental breakfast in their basement (not unusual for smaller Paris hotels)breakfast room. <BR>In your price range, for sure.<BR><BR>bonne chance!!

Grand Hotel des Balcons. Do a search on the name as others here have found this place ideal. We spent the last week in April there -- simply delightful. HOWEVER, expect to walk downstairs. We had a 5th floor room and the tiny elevator was ok for heading upstairs, but we preferred walking down the many flights in the pretty circular hallway with art deco stained glass windows at each floor. The location in the 7th is super convenient (Metro stop Odeon) but it is on a quiet side street near the Medical college. Their 10euro per person<BR>full (and I mean FULL) breakfast buffet is one of the best deals in town. <BR>

First, pick a neighborhood that is on the quiet side. The 7th is quieter than the 1st, 2nd, Marais, 5th and 6th (although parts of the 6th can be quiet). The 16th is even quieter than the 7th, as it is an upscale residential neighborhood. You will have very little street noise to bother you (not much nightlife either, but there are still plenty of cafes and restaurants around). For example, the Hotel du Bois is right near the Place Victor Hugo--great for people watching and enjoying a drink or meal without being surrounded by hordes of tourists--yet is set back just enough to be quiet and peaceful. According to one web site, <BR>http://www.holidaycity.com/hotel-du-bois-paris/<BR>a superior double costs about 108 euro per night, including breakfast. You are very close to the Victor Hugo metro station and also are an easy walk from the Arc de Triomphe. <BR>The Scossa cafe/restaurant on the Place Victor Huge serves the best cafe creme I've ever had in Paris. To sit there on a sunny morning with a cafe creme and a glass of fresh squeezed orange juice, with the fountains sparkling and the Parisians going about their business, makes all the stress of life just float away.

I'm not sure I know of a super quiet hotel as they tend to be in the busy areas, and on the main streets (and even when they aren't noise does tend to echo in those narrow old streets with tall buildings), but I was just going to tell you that within the last few years or so, a lot of 3-star Parisian hotels have added AC and there should be enough to choose in your price range. I'd say at least half the 3-star hotels in prime tourist areas have it now, and that used to be fairly rare. You can even find a couple 2-stars that do, although that is rare. They would be in your price range for sure. I think the Hotel des Grandes Ecoles in the 5th might be a relatively quiet hotel from what I've heard, but I haven't stayed there.<BR><BR>I'll think about it, but I've been in some hotels where the noise was rather bad and it wasn't from traffic street noise but other guests or the staff or being too near bars where late night crowds yell while walking down the street, so a side street is no guarantee (word of warning, avoid side streets in the Latin Quarter around the Sorbonne or St-Michel).