I feel exactly the same way. I love it so much.

Same.
DO go back. Take your wife next time. Glad your daughter loved it.

Don't forget rue Daguerre, and the new Liberation museum, as well. Well, I guess rue Daguerre isn't all that exciting, there is that modern art museum nearby also which only shows one exhibit at a time. I actually like the Postal Museum for a change.

I don't know who told CC that, but I have seen people on Fodors, I think, warning others that this area is "too far out" for them. A lot of tourists get anxious if they are more than 1 km from the Seine and are not right near major tourist sites and other tourists, I guess. It's only a few metro stops away. I also don't care about "things to see" right near my hotel, actually, as most of my tourism sightseeing in any city is an area away from my hotel.

"Anxious"?!
That's a crackpot "diagnosis".

As to who told me that, I think I can take most of the blame, reading between the lines and not really being equipped as a first time visitor to vet all the info that comes at you with a place like Paris.

I went and drove around Nicaragua once... you don't get buried in data and opinions putting together a trip like that. lol. It's actually been a long time since I've been somewhere that is so popular as Paris and now there's not just Fodors but videos and podcasts and just a ridiculous amount of stuff coming at you. I guess that's good... but when you're not tuned to whether sources align with yourself, you necessarily make some leaps by the time you're booking things. A good one in the case of choosing the 14th, but that was in spite of noticing that most posters choose to stay closer to the centre. I won't get into why, anxiety-based sounds extreme, but there's a certain implication in there that closer is better, I think

And I'd been watching a youtube channel by a guy named Jay Swanson who lives in Paris and I thought was doing a pretty good job of de-glamourizing the city while still remaining positive in giving advice. Clearly didn't love Rue Mouffetard for instance but you could tell he was looking for pros where he could. That felt a little more trustworthy than all the breathless content providers covering the same areas. In any case, he was doing an arrondisement by arrondisement series from 1-20 and he seemed to get stuck when got to the 14th. This was after I booked. lol. I wasn't *that* worried but yeah, there was a little uh oh moment and I'm glad I didn't change my mind. If we go back, I think I'd do the same thing again and see more of those areas Kerouac suggests now that the first-timer stuff is out of my system.

We rented an apartment in the 14th for seven days a few years ago. I liked the area a lot.

I went and drove around Nicaragua once... you don't get buried in data and opinions putting together a trip like that.

Because it's an online forum, I have to come in with a pointless contrarianism: I had a boyfriend whose mom was from Nicaragua. BF and I spent several weeks in country. Lots of strong opinions about where we should go and what we should do!

Glad you had fun and I agree about the 6th as well as enjoy the 14th. I was worried about where you chose to stay in Rome, as that location is far too busy/touristy for me (love Rome, but don't stay in most of the areas recommended here when I visit). Even when I stay in Venice I manage to book out of the fray.

But it's harder when you've never been to a place before, and also, locations are a different strokes-for-different-folks kinda thing.

kureiff, I'm curious, if you don't mind me asking, if you thought you got a pretty good deal on the apartment? A lot of what drove my decision on the hotel was just budget, along with that access to 3 different metro lines were right there. For the fact that the room was clean, comfortable and surprisingly large (by my standards, not to mention Paris standards), with big windows opening to two directions, it felt like a bargain. At least compared to the search results of hotels a bit closer to city centre.

Leely, I don't doubt it - when you got family, they got opinions! lol But how great is that? I could have used them before we went.

I actually was thinking about your warning about that Piazza Trilussa while we were there and could see why you'd give a heads up. As it turned out, we weren't right ON the piazza but at the southern tail end of it, in that next big building southward that faces onto the river. Thankfully I couldn't hear a thing. So minus the noice, we were kind of ok when in late evenings we could pop out and right across for a gelato or a slice. That guy ended up having some of the best pizza we encountered in Rome! There were definitely a lot of 20 somethings dancing and drinking and eating around the buskers by the fountain. KInd of a different free concert every night. I don't know how many languages I heard among them, but lots of Italian too. We'd go sit on the steps a couple of nights and listen too until we got sleepy. But yeah, one restaurant we tried a few blocks back from there into Trastevere was pretty disappointing. I think I wouldn't have liked being as far out in Rome as we were in Paris though. Just wasn't finding public transport to be as intuitive or reliable as it was in Paris, so it was nice that the foot bridge into the old city was right there at our doorstep. (didn't love the B&B itself though... big but a bit dreary and unfinished, faint cabbage-y smells from someplace down below and a PITA to come and go with 5 keys needed to get to the dang room)

"faint cabbage-y smells" -- hahaha! Glad the endless party at Piazza Trilussa didn't disturb you and you had a good source for pizza and gelato right outside your door.

CC, yeah, I found a decent apartment at a good price near the Alesia metro station. This was seven years ago, though, that we stayed there.

Three years ago, I stayed in the 11th and found a great hotel deal. I just checked and it’s $250/night, and I had paid around $130/night.

Two years ago, we had two nights in Paris before going to Barcelona, and it was December, so I paid more to stay in the 2nd arr. since we didn’t have a lot of time and it was cold, and I wanted to be close to everything.

But the metro is so easy and fast that I don’t mind staying further out. Plus, we usually walk at least 10 miles everyday when we’re on vacation.

I think the best place for rotisserie chicken in Paris is the halal rotisserie right next to the Marche Aligre. Very delicious and reasonable.
One of my favorite parks in Paris is Parc Monceau. Pick up food from any place on Rue de Laborde (Thierry Marx has good sandwiches), and head over to the park.