We are going to Paris for three days for the first time. In one of the threads I've found several suggestions about nice hotels in St-Germain (Hotel des Ecoles was one of them). Do they have non-smoking rooms in two-star hotels?

I would appreciate any feedback.

some of them do, I know (Libertel in particular) because I've run across them when searching/booking. The Libertel chain has nonsmoking rooms in most of their hotels, I think, see www.libertel-hotels.com (not obvious where you find the info, you have to click on detailed bedroom room info to find no. of nonsmoking rooms). The Jardins de Paris chain also has them and I think they have two star hotels. There are probably plenty of others, although there aren't very many nice 2* hotels in St-Germain, to begin with, because it's an expensive area.

Has anyone stayed at the hotel Agora on
rue de la Cossonnerie? It is not far from Louvre. I found it through 123france.com

Prepare yourself. I remember dinner at one of the top rated restaurants in Paris ("Le Cameleon" in Montparnasse) where ALL of the waiters CHAIN SMOKED. Even so, it was the best meal I ever had. Even worse are the coffee shops. In one we literally couldn't find the zinc (bar) for the haze. Hopefully your hotel will give you some respite.

Most cafes and restaurants aren't that bad, I've never experienced anything like that except in very small tabacs or something (or a late night spot like Caveau de la Huchette).

There is a Hotel Agora in Latin Quarter and I think I've read several comments about it on here, but I guess it's not the same one.

My strategy to minimize smoke exposure (doesn't bother me that much but one of my sons has asthma and it makes him wheeze--also don't like the smoke smell in my clothes) is to eat at what we consider a normal time here but is considered early there--say 7:00 or even 6:00 or 6:30 at a restaurant that is open that early. Less crowded, so less smoke.

Thank you very much everybody! It is important for me, because I am allergic to tobacco smoke.

Keep in mind that while you have a valid allergy a lot of Americans before you have probably gotten ALL upset when they got seated at a resturant near a smoking person. So I suggest being VERY nice. (I say this because I watched an "ugly" american go charging over to a nice man in Spain and YELL at him in English to put out his cigerette! He decided to assume the theory that he spoke no English, but I speak enough Spanish to determine the entire resturant was talking ugly about the Americano for the rest of the meal.) In the small resturants they really don't have enough space to have well divided non-smoking areas like I am used to. If it is nice outside I like to eat lunch outside, you can usually manuver yourself where the smoke is not blowing on you!