Sue

There was a nice piece on Paris in yesterday's NYT travel section, including some info on a budget hotel in the 8th, New Orient Hotel, that I've not seen mentioned here. <BR><BR>http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/03/travel/WDPARI.html

Sue

I was incorrect: the New Orient was a hotel mentioned in the National Geog. list of a couple of yrs. ago. Just a new name to me, I guess.

belinda

It IS mentioned in the NY Times article, next to the Duc de Saint-Simon and the Hotel des Marronniers in the 6th and another budget place in the 18th arr. (Ermitage Hotel<BR>** on Rue Lamarck).<BR><BR>The New Orient's web page is:<BR>www.hotel-paris-orient.com<BR>Doubles $81 to 102.

Sue

Belinda, I meant that I was incorrect in saying that the hotel hadn't been mentioned previously on this forum. I thought it was a &quot;new find&quot; from the NYT article.

Christina

It probably hasn't been mentioned much on here, but it's not a new find from the NYT, either. That hotel was mentioned as a good budget, charming hotel in an article I have from Elle magazine in February 1998. That was the French edition of Elle magazine, so for the record, here are the hotels that issue listed as &quot;10 hotels de charme in Paris, less than 500F&quot;. For those looking for budget hotels, there are a couple in this list that are not always named elsewhere. In order by area:<BR><BR>Hotel des Grandes Ecoles, 5e<BR>Hotel du Globe, 5e<BR>Hotel de l'Esperance, 5e<BR>Hotel du Lys, 6e<BR>Hotel du Champ de Mars, 7e<BR>New Orient Hotel, 8e<BR>Hotel Beaumarchais, 11e<BR>Hotel Vert Galant, 13e<BR>Hotel Boileau, 16e<BR>Hotel Prima Lepic, 18e<BR><BR>Within that list, they had 3 categories of priorities--<BR>Best: H du Lys, H des Gr Ecoles, New Orient<BR>2nd choice: Boileau, l'Esperance, Champ de Mars, du Globe<BR>3rd choice: Vert Galant, Prima Lepic, Beaumarchais