Jul 3, 2007
Apartments -- not hotels -- offer the best values in Paris this year
A recent look at the website of Paris Attitude (www.parisattitude.com), my own favorite source of Parisian accommodations, serves to remind that in Paris and other European capitals, the short-term rental of an apartment can often cost far less than equivalent hotel rooms, especially if you are four or more persons traveling together. Paris Attitutude currently lists apartments throughout the city that rent for as little as $800 a week (housing four). And that's an all-inclusive price; only the use of the phone is not included.
In such an apartment occupied by four persons, you and your family can also save on breakfasts and occasional meals, while enjoying far more space than is usually available in a hotel.
Even in upgraded, top first class hotel-apartments (apartments with the services of a hotel), the saving can be considerable. At such upscale digs as an apartment-hotel in the Bastille area, cleaning is provided daily; bed linens are changed every three days, and towels each day. There is a twenty-four hour receptionist, and a bar on the premises. Yet such a studio when rented to four persons costs less than $200 a night (on at least a one-week rental), much less than you'd pay at an equivalent Paris hotel.
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In such an apartment occupied by four persons, you and your family can also save on breakfasts and occasional meals, while enjoying far more space than is usually available in a hotel.
Even in upgraded, top first class hotel-apartments (apartments with the services of a hotel), the saving can be considerable. At such upscale digs as an apartment-hotel in the Bastille area, cleaning is provided daily; bed linens are changed every three days, and towels each day. There is a twenty-four hour receptionist, and a bar on the premises. Yet such a studio when rented to four persons costs less than $200 a night (on at least a one-week rental), much less than you'd pay at an equivalent Paris hotel.
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