My husband and I will be in Paris on Sept. 22nd for 5 nights. We are looking for a hotel under $200 with air conditioning in the 5h or 6th district.
I know a lot of people recommend the Hotel Bonaparte...does anyone know if they have air conditioning. Any comments on Hotel Muguet. The Agora Sant Germain gets good reviews but it's undergoing major renovations.
Does anyone have any suggestions that will help in my search.
Thanks!

Hi dian,

The Bonaparte has an AC unit in each room.

I think there are several hotels in that price range with AC, although not a lot as September is high season and right now that is only around 150 euro. Many 3* hotels in St Germain with AC are more than that, and the nicer ones in the Latin Qtr, also.

In any case, I've stayed at the Muguet and have commented several times, as have many others on here. Just type "muguet" in the search box and click on France and you can read plenty about the hotel. Many like it a lot; I didn't think it was anything special. However, it's NOT in the 5th or 6th, just thought I'd mention that. It does have AC but I might inquire whether it is turned on at that time of year as it seems to be a requirement of a hotel for you. Some budget hotels may not run it after 9/1 or 9/15 or so (the 2* Grand Hotel Leveque very near the Muguet does not, for example)--you really need to check. However if you really want AC, the Muguet is a choice and well within your budget.

I do know a few cheaper 3* hotels with AC in those areas -- I believe the Claude Bernard is one, as well as the Hotel L'Observatoire Lucembourg. They both have AC and are around 150 euro in peak season. You can try the Bonaparte, of course (I think the 2* Hotel Clement near it also has AC). If you are considering the Muguet, though, then I don't know why not any hotel in that area in the 7th, which are often cheaper than St Germain.

Diana,

We stayed in the Hotel Muguet last May and loved it! (It's in the 7th by the way - only saying that since you say you are looking in the 5th or 6th.)

We could not have been happier with our choice, particularly for the price. The bathroom was spotless, the towels fluffy, the mattress firm and the view great!

Recently though some others have posted that their experience were not perfect - you may want to do a search so that you can get the full perspective and then make your own decision.

Although we are thinking we might want to rent an apartment next time we go to Paris, the Muguet remains our first choice.

Have a great trip!!
Sally

Air conditioning in September?

I would think about the Artus Hotel in the 6th. We stayed there last spring and it was great. You can't beat the location and they have air conditioning. Plus Sanjay, the front desk manager is awesome. We sent my parents there in September and he took great care on them. Good Luck

I forgot to tell you that there rates start at 190E.

My husband and I just returned from a 1-week stay at the Muguet. We liked everything about it. Didn't need AC, of course, but it seems to be "central" air, rather than window units. Our queen-bedded room (62) had a great view of Invalides.

~Liz

whatever hotel you choose, make your reservations now--sept. is high season, and some prime hotels will already be full up. and yes, a/c in september--the weather can be warm and humid.

As I have suggested it before, try the Hotel Central saint Germain, in the 5th, a very good area. The hotel is also very clean and have a nice decoration! It's a 3 star hotel.
Look at it on http://www.centralstgermain.com
Good luck in your search!

Underhill,

I'm resigned to urban electrification, but this global cooling trend is too much! The sverage high temperature in Paris in September is 68 Fahrenheit and the average low is 53. There may be odd above-body-temperature episodes, but they'll come mostly in the daytime, when most visitors are out visiting. Room hot when you return? Maybe the windows will open.

Hotel Residence Monge would also fit your criteria.

http://www.hotelmonge.com/hotel-stan...52&lang=en

Does anyone have a website or email for the hotel Muguet?

Muguet's contact is www.hotelmuguet.com.

coming back to a cool room on a warm day last september made all the difference for me. i don't do heat well.

My wife and I have been to Paris 3 times and the hotels we enjoyed were:
1) Le Sainte Beuve and 2) Hotel Pas des Calais. We especially liked the second (where we returned after first visit) since it is right off blvd.St. Germaine and right in the center of many restaurants,etc. Both have a web site- I would recommend either.

Dave_in_Paris, while I appreciate your efforts to rid the world of unneeded airconditioning, there is a reason some of us like AC in September. In addition to cooling off in our room as Underhill mentions, when a person is used to living and working in AC, the Paris humidity can be overwhelming, even when not extremely hot.

And that idea of "maybe the windows will open". Yea, sure, but I have yet to find many hotels in Paris where I could sleep with the windows open. I'm not a city dweller, and the sounds of people walking below my window and talking until the wee hours, and the sounds of trash and delivery trucks early in the morning, are all great sleep ruiners to me. I travel to enjoy myself, so I dont' understand the idea of "suffering" from the lack of the comforts I'm used to. Please don't confuse that statement with the idea that I want everything to be the same as at home. I don't.

Patrick,

Hope I've caused no offense with my campaign against artificial climate. I do think of myself as a hardy soul, but I also love luxuries. It's just that for me, cold air isn't one of them. (May have been the several decades I spent in upstate New York that changed my mind. The was a plan to send Haitan boat people to an underused army base there, Fort Drum. I think that was meant to be a deterrent.) People's tolerance to heat varies -- and seems to be declining. Air conditioning does have its pluses, even though it drives me crazy -- and not only in France. For one thing, many an otherwise lovely terrace has been ruined by the whining of those monsters.

It's really important for me to have air conditioning. My allergies are very bad and I get a lot of migraines so I can't take the chance of not having it.

Thanks for all your comments.

I generally share Dave's attitude about AC, though I certainly enjoy it in Paris in, say, August. At least the French haven't turned stores into ice boxes yet, so that in summer when you're shopping it's freeze followed by blast of hot air followed by freeze followed by blast of hot air.....it drives me crazy to go do errands in DC in the summer when all the stores have the AC on full tilt.