should we stay in the 15th?
 

Has anyone ever stayed in the tourism hotel on La Motte-Piquet in the 15th? They have atruly super rate? we are wondering if that is because they are a little out of the way or if is something else. Is it very out of the way. The metro stop is La Motte Piquet Grennelle. Any info would be appreciated.

Would you plese provide a hotel name and include the rate? You've an area with many 2* and 3* hotels that could be called "tourism hotel on La Motte-Piquet in the 15th." This is at the edge of the 7th where many like staying.

The name of the hotel is the Tourism Hotel. It is at 66 De la <BR>otte-Piquet. That really is the name

I have not stayed at that hotel but did stay in that area of the 15th near the 7th on my first trip to Paris and liked it very much. I prefer to be more centrally located and on return trips stayed in the 1st and the 6th, but there is nothing wrong with that location and you can easily get anywhere you need to be by metro (and it is walking distance to the Eiffel Tower). There is a restaurant in the 15th we enjoyed very much (ate their twice) called L'Amanguier, 51 rue du Theatre. I enjoyed it again on a subsequent visit as well. They had a fixed-price menu at lunch that was delicious and a very good value, although I haven't been there in years.<BR><BR>

I think this is a very good location: La Motte Picquet Grenelle is centrally located, and the metro station is a hub of several useful lines. And you'll be close to the rue du Commerce, a quintessentially Parisian neighborhood lined with great food stores, not that bourgeois-Disneyesque-touristy rue Cler !

I was in Paris in March and stayed in the 15th. I walked by that motel alot, ans it looked fine but I didn't pay much attention. I was there by myself and felt safe in that area. The la Motte Piquet Grennelle has 3 lines and can you about anywhere in a short period of time. The best part was the Mono-Prix next to the metro stop. I went there several times a day! There is also a crepe stand there that has great ham and cheese crepes. For the price, I would stay there again. Have fun!

What on earth is Disneyesque about rue Cler? Please explain, Vince.

it depends, oops, should have spelled the hotel Tourisme hotel. sorry ileft out the e on the end, thanks. judy

I've stayed in the 15th but in a slightly different area, around Charles Michels metro stop. I liked it around there, but I was staying a while and there are a lot of good food shops on that street, and some good normal restaurants and cafes. La Motte Picquet is a little more convenient for transportation, as several metro lines go through there, but that's a big station, also. It was just a normal middle class French neighborhood. If I were a tourist and wanting to do all those things, I might want to be closer to the Seine, but not if I were the kind of tourist who is just gone from my hotel all day.<BR><BR>I think I know what Vincent means about rue Cler, I feel the same way -- to me, it's just a rather yuppie, sanitized, upscale, not quite real area, and too many tourists. It doesn't matter to me that so many American tourists want to stay there because they read Rick Steves, but it's not for everyone. I don't care about eating a lot in places around my hotel, either, that seems to be what people like about it a lot, that they can eat so much. Someone in another thread really got mad that I didn't like rue Cler and said I didn't have any right to say that and must not have been there or something or I wouldn't say that -- believe me, I've been there. I don't think it's awful, but nothing I'd want to stay around or go out of my way to see.

Cristina expressed it better than I could have done it: it feels like a movie set, with all those Figaro reading couples with their Cyrillus clad offspring. It's like an "ideal" picture of an "ideal" Paris, something out of Amelie Poulain, or, should I dare say it, a Le Pen campaign commercial (not very multi-ethnic, the 7th... ). That said, there are dozens of similar streets in Paris: rue de Levis (17th), Mouffetard (5th), du Ruisseau (18th, more ethnic, this one, though). And, no offense, but it's swarming with American tourists, so so much for local flavor...