Wouldn't your daughter be more interested in the Quartier Latin with its student life?

But Michael, the great thing about being up there in the 10th/19th -Canal St. Martin area, is that you are right there on the metro line, and you can spend as long as you want down in the Latin Quarter, but not have those largely inflated hotel rates-AND you get to see a less touristy, and quite "boho-youthful" side of the real Paris.

My good friend in Paris lives in the 7th, but we would hang out at night in the 6th and 7th-no problem-I would just catch the last metro northbound.

We had friends who stayed at the Hotel Minerve a few years back, and were happy with it. I think that it has been upgraded, and the prices are higher now. But it's well located and not outrageously expensive.

Michael, my daughter and I are going to go over hotel choices this weekend and I'll bring up the possibility of Latin Quarter hotels. I'll also have her take a look at the NYT article on Canal St. Martin, and also go through Time Out Paris. However, my perception, from my previous visit to Paris, is that she will like the Opera/Marais/Bastille areas better than the Latin Quarter. I can't fully explain why that's the case - just my sense, and I'm not a Paris expert. But if the perfect Left Bank hotel appears, I certainly won't reject it because of its Left Bank location.

Re the Chopin, I think I read somewhere that the passages can be a bit dark at night? I hope it doesn't sound like I'm being too picky, it's just that I obviously have time to way overthink this. I know BeatChick was happy with Hotel Chopin.

I think Hotel Minerva has gone up a lot in price too.

My 21 year old daughter and I spent last month in Paris and we stayed at a really neat hotel called the Hotel Monge(got good reviews here and on tripadvisor). It was 98 euros a night and well worth it. The location is great as it is in a residential area with grocery,shops,ATM right across the street,etc,/between two metor stops-Place Monge and Cardinal Limeone(SP?)/two blocks over to Rue Mouffatard(probably not spelling that right either)that a had a cute street market everyday AND has wonderful restaurants which all the Latin Quarter students visit as you are only a few blocks over to the Sorbonne,Pantheon and about a 10 minute walk to Notre Dame through the students area.I have a bad knee and this area was really easy to walk around and visit things without always getting on the metro.I fly to Paris quite a bit for my job and really enjoyed staying in this area instead of where my airline puts us or where we have stayed before. Check it out as the staff were most helpful,rooms had minibar,cable TV,safe and the corner room we had was huge but also very clean. Have fun and be sure and buy one of the two piece clear Eiffel Towers that has the base that changes from one of the North African guys(don't pay more than 3 or 4 euros-they start at 15 euros)Even thought my daughter has been to Paris before,I talked her into it and she has remarked repeatedly how much she enjoys looking at it on her desk at college.Also-treat her to a Longchamps purse.........always a wonderful souvenir of Paris!!! Enjoy the time together.

We went to Paris in February a couple of years ago and stayed at the Best Western Bretagne Montparnasse for about 80 Euros per night. It was a nice little hotel in a safe neighborhood. The metro was about a block away from the hotel, easy to get around from there. The rooms were small, of course. There were great bakeries and cheese shops in the neighborhood. It was a great value for the money.
Before posting tonight, I went to tripadvisor.com and looked over what people had written since my stay and there were few (what I consider) to be "real" complaints.
If you take this one look back to the early reviews and you will find excellent directions for getting there.

Here's another possibility (I've mentioned it on another thread):
75 Euros per night prepaid. 3* hotel with excellent reviews.
Mercure Paris Monty Opéra
5 rue de Montyon
75009
http://tinyurl.com/wn5fd

L84SKY, thanks for reminding me of the BW site. I see some possibilities there. Dutyfree, thanks for the report on Hotel Monge - certainly I've heard almost universally good things about it.

Asiarooms.com has the Libertel Croix de Malte in the 11th for 70 Euros per night, including breakfast. This is a by request booking, however, so I can't be sure it would work. Plus, the reviews are not that good.

Venere has the Royal Aboukir at
106 rue d'Aboukir, 75002, for 75 Euros per night for a twin.

The reviews do mention the proximity to the St. Denis red light district, though.

This isn't on the right bank, but I stayed in a single in Residence Les Gobelines in 2005 and thought it was fine ... it's on the border of the 5th and 12 (or maybe it's 13). I also went to Paris in October and stayed at Hotel de la Porte Doree, but that's probably too far for your likings. Both will probably be around the 60s for prices.

Okay, I totally lied about prices. Les Goblines is 83, and Porte Doree is high 70s.

Just to add to the confusion...very close to the Arc and in a nice nighborhood in the 15th (Right-which is what you wanted) is Hotel Riveria. We paid 78E for a double on the top floor. There are only 16 rooms. It was close to three metros, a walk to the Champs Elysee, and very clean. I would not hesitate to recommend it.

I don't really have any suggestions for WillTravel, as I usually stay in the 6th, or at least in Montparnasse, as those hotels would be too much for what she wants - but I had to laugh to myself at the mention of the Holiday Inn near the Gare de Lyon. I stayed there for one night a couple of years ago to be near the Gare and got a good internet price. The immediate area is OK (but not my style exactly) and the sex shop next door unobtrusive. There are some pretty seedy side streets near there, but the hotel itself is fine.

What really got me, tho, was that when I turned on the TV, HARDCORE porn was staring me right in the face, and I do mean hardcore. I would have been mortified if a child (yes, even a 15-year old) had been with me at that moment. My daughter laughed when I told her: "Well, Mom, did you turn it off?"

I need to correct my addition- Hotel Riviera is in the 17th! They have a web site and mention public rates...It might be interesting if an email would get you "internet" rates?

Hardcore porn. That would be channel 4 at midnight on the first Saturday of the month, for those who are interested.

Kerouac, that was alot earlier than midnight, and it wasn't the first Saturday of the month. But I'll remember this for future reference!

I think rue Aboukir itself is pretty dreary and ugly, I wouldn't stay there. unless you think a bunch of super cheap clothing stores is a great ambience (ie, "dime store" quality). It's real narrow and not particularly attractive, also. At least that's the part I remember between rue Reaumur and bd St Denis, and I was just there last summer. I think rue St Denis is even more attractive, although that's not saying much. Your other hotels near Grands Boulevards would be much preferable to me, for location anyway, as well as rue Tiquetonne. I don't think I've been on rue d'Aboukir SW of the Sentier metro stop, though.

Sue, thanks for the warning!

Thanks everyone for your other suggestions. Right now the Mercure Monty is at the top of my list, and I hope they don't get rid of their prepaid 75-Euro rate before I make a decision.

Hi WillTravel
A couple of years ago I stayed at the Carroftel Gobelins Hotel, on Ave. des Gobelins, near Rue Mouffetard and it was quite reasonable (something in the order of 80 euros for a twin room). But this time I decided to rent an apartment for my daughter (she is 27) and I to share. I am looking at the rental in Homelidays and there are very reasonable places, particularly as I will be there towards the end of January (it will be cold, I know, but it is Okay, I live in the tropics...).