please recommend an actual place you have stayed recently for 2 adults and 2 teens for a week in September.About 1048 euro per week.??
I have visited so many rental agencies and still confused.
I booked locaflat at this price at Rue Geoffrey St Hilaire but now see it is near Gare d'Austerlitz and maybe not a good location. Also have to pick up keys at office elsewhere. Help.

My wife's parents, my wife, and I stayed in apartment 14 of rentparis (www.rentparis.com) and enjoyed it. It's located in the 3rd, though a bit away from "the center". (It's near the Filles du Calvaire metro stop.) The apartment was really nice and there were lots of cafes and shops in the area. It's a direct metro ride to the Eiffel Tower area and single transfer to most other places. The agency rep met us at the apartment. They have many additional apartments for 4 people and you can see availability online. This agency has the advantage that you can rent an apartment for any number of days, i.e., not just a whole week. (This is one of the reasons we went with them.) Our apartment was EUR 145/night (total incl taxes and utilities), but it's only EUR 129/night for 6 nights or more (and EUR 90/night for 27 nights or more).

Enjoy your trip,
Paul

Enjoy your trip

I haven't rented a quad, but have rented from Locaflat, so can comment on that. Yes, you do have to pick up the keys in theie office right near La Motte Picquet metro stop. That didn't bother me for any reason -- you don't have to return them there upon departure. I liked the flexibility of that, actually, rather than being tied to a particular appointment time to meet someone when I wasn't exactly sure when I'd get there.

They are very nice and competent in that office, at least the guy I worked with, who I think is the main one. They have a couple offices in an apt building there which they work out of, you have to follow the directions to get buzzed up (fourth floor as I recall).

I wouldn't rent an apt. on rue Geoffrey St-Hilaire myself, though. It's in kind of a less interesting, less charming, less convenient area of the edge of the 5th (to me), although it's not right near tha train station. It's on the far end of the Jardin des Plantes and near the Institute Musulman et Mosquee.

It's not a horrible location; not sure if it would be better/worse than around Filles Calvaires. There are plenty of neighborhood shops and restaurants around the Censier metro, also -- I stayed there last summer but more at the corner of rue Mirbel and rue Censier. That isn't really that far from rue Geoffrey St-Hilaire, but several blocks, probably, and that affects convenience for me. If your apt. is almost right on bd St-Marcel, that actually might be more convenient.

try the hotel excelsior in the 5th. we stayed there at christmas and it was nice. had a room for 4. pretty convienient. www.excelsiorlatin.com

I wouldn't stay in one room with 2 teens, I'd go nuts. I think the apartment is a perfect way to go. Look up the address on Pages Jaunes website (oops, it's not saved as a fav on this computer so I can't give you the link, but do a search here and it will pop up) and scope out the neighborhood. I've a feeling it will be perfectly fine. That's also an excellent price -- is it 6 or 7 nights? At six nights, you'd need to find a hotel where the doubles are under 87 euro per night, plus you won't have kitchen facilities (which I think would be wonderful when traveling with 2 teenagers.)

Our family stayed at the Palais Bourbon Hotel in the 7th, just east of Les Invalides and just north of the Rodin Museum. Nice large, clean quad at less than 150 Euros/nite (a little over a year ago)

Have fun!

Although I've never stayed in a quad I have stayed at this hotel, Grand Hotel Jeanne d'Arc in the Marais. 125 euros/night, 875 euros/week. Breakfast 5.80 euros extra per person.

Website:
www.hoteljeannedarc.com

This hotel is one of my favorites. If you do a search on this website you'll see all the comments I've made about it plus other favorable reviews as well.

Have a great time in Paris!!!

We were very happy with the 2 bedroom "Places des Victoires" apartment we rented from www.vacationinparis.com last spring. It is on a quiet street in the 1st, about a 10 minute walk from the Louvre. It was $200/night in April 2003.

Many thanks to all. Christine you seem very knowledgable and Ive enjoyed your advise to others. I may try locaflat for another position or can get the joining rooms at Hotel Valadon for half as much again- It does sound great but it all seems very expensive to us. Will check out other ideas too. Merci beaucoup.

Sounds like you got lots of good suggestions. We stayed at Hotel Champ du Mars in June 2000 with 2 teen girls. We had our room and they thought they were so grown up with their own room. At that time rooms were about $79 per night.

They liked staying near Rue Cler because I would let them walk up and down the street by themselves. One night my husband and I went out for a nice French dinner and they ate Chinese! lol

We have booked this apartment in the 5eme for June. Of all the apartment sites, this one was the most reasonable and they meet you with the keys. We are four also.

Latin apartment
http://opodohome.com/jussieu_uk.htm
Rue de la Clef, 75005 Paris.
Nearest subway : Place Monge.
cable TV
local telephone

We just returned from a 6 night stay in Paris with our 2 teens. We rented a 1 bedroom apt. in the 17th from www.vacationinparis.com . It's ID #36 on their website. It's $175 a night and on a very charming street. It's on Rue de Levis, a pedestrian street with lots of markets and a 5 min. walk to the Villiers Metro stop. The sofa made out into a bed & they had a twin bed set up in the entryway with a curtin. Decorated very nicely. We'd go with an apartment in a heartbeat over hotel. We really got the feeling of being a Parisian!

Just found more ideas-I have now almost finalised the loft with vrbo
but these other ideas sound great-maybe for next time-ododohome sound great-very reasonable too..about half what we are paying. It does help to get definite places on here-before I had lots of companies offered to try but it becomes very confusing.
Again thanks to you all very much.