Breakfast places around hotel - how much do they cost ?

Many people in France just visit their nearest boulangerie in the morning to get a pastry or croissant to go with their coffee. Do you have coffee or tea making equipment in your room? Will you have a small refrigerator for juice or yoghurts? If you want a contentintal breakfast buy some yogurts at your nearby grocery to go with your fresh croissant or pastry from your nearby boulangerie. I see a few cafes, several grocery stores and a nice boulangerie within a 10 minute walk from your Novotel using google maps and searching for those 3 terms. Most are walking towards Port d'Orleans Metro.

I am not familiar with the area.

In a residential neighborhood you could probably find a basic breakfast (coffee and a roll or pastry) for about a third of that. More if you want a second croissant. So your instincts are right!

If you are right up against a highway and there is nothing else around, you may need to walk a bit, though a park or under the highway, to get to a more populated neighborhood. The E18 charge is so high that I wonder if this is not the case--if the hotel is effectively isolated so as to give it a sort of monopoly. Or perhaps it is just a very hearty breakfast--if the hotel caters to tourists, there may be eggs and bacon etc.

If it were me, I would decline the breakfast (if possible) and make scoping out the situation a day-of-arrival project. The hotel should have no problem if you change your mind and opt back in.

Price, between €5 and €10, many of the places offer different options for different prices.

Finding them is not a problem. Just walk around near the hotel, at any major junction or square you will find restaurants offering "petit déjeuner".

The only breakfasts in France I've encountered at that price were huge buffets that took me through the day. You might want to check it out. Otherwise, a lot of cafes have coffee croissant breakfasts for 5-7 Euros. France is known for its lunch and dinner, but not breakfast. The cup of coffee will be small by US standards.

The normal French breakfast is either a "tartine" - baguette, butter and jam - or a croissant or "pain au chocolat" and a black coffee, tea or a "café crème" - coffee with steamed milk. This will normally cost 7 to 8 € in this neighborhood.
If you look for a "formule" or "menu", you will come out ahead, with a sélection of tartine, choice of croissant or pain au chocolat, yogurt, juice, fried or soft-boiled eggs and coffee, tea or hot chocolate - all for around 10 to 12 €.
Of course, you can order just an omelette or fried eggs for around 6 €.

At a cafe you will pay for every cup of coffee. No free refills. If you want cream with it, that costs more than just black coffee. If you drink 4 or 5 cups of coffee in the morning, that 18 Euro might be worth it.

18 may mean cold cuts, eggs, as well as pastries and bread and juice, yogurt, chocolate, coffee and tea -- or it may just be juice and coffee au lait and bread. 18 is ridiculous but it is not unusual in hotels. Often bakeries have a couple of tables and you can grab coffee and bread and eat there. Cafes often offer a breakfast for 7 or 8 Euro (there will be a sign out front) and these usually consist of croissant or tartine, juice and coffee. This is one of the great advantages of apartments, you can cheaply stock up coffee, yogurt, milk and juice and then each morning pick up pastries and breads. We always get a baguette and eat it with great French butter. but we also experiment with the couple of dozen of different breakfast pastries. (they make mini versions of pane chocolate, croissants, and raisin snails)

The OP is not staying in an apartment, but in a Novotel...

If you desperately need a lot of coffee before heading out to do whatever you have to do, hotels will allow you to fill up on coffee. If there is a buffet breakfast, you can also fill up on whatever there is to eat there.

I am not familiar with that area. I have had some good breakfasts of omelette & coffee for much less in rue Cler and rue Mouffetard areas. I like a North American breakfast with eggs as protein so a croissant & coffee is not my choice. I asked if they had omelettes before I sat down if there was not a menu to view.

I have an Ulmon app for a detailed map of Paris, it often has restaurants but not all cafes. Use Google street view as another poster suggested. Though the hotel staff might want to push their breakfast, you can ask them. You could simply scope out possibilities with a short walk around your hotel.

Enjoy Paris.

Obviously, you can eat for less if you make a-la-carte selections that add up to less than the all-you-can-eat buffet in the hotel. (Note that tiny hotels may not offer multiple made-to-order egg plates - one and you're done.) It's not possible to give you a useful answer unless you say whether a "breakfast" to you MUST include two to three egss, some form of pork, toasted flat slices of bread, and unlimited coffee. Do you care about the quality of the orange juice? Do you have allergies or diet restrictions?

As our host Rick says, one purpose of travel is to see how the locals live. Having a stand-up, smaller breakfast in a Bar is an ideal way to do that in Paris.

Go to google maps and you'll see a sort of outdoor shopping mall about a block away with Square Gabriel Peri. There is a Carrefour supermarket, and in the central circle, a boulangerie for morning coffee and pastry with outdoor seating.

This part of Paris, Montrouge really, would not be my first choice of places to stay in Paris.

Oh, and though I don't see any in your neighborhood, an Egg McMuffin and a coffee costs less in a Paris McDonalds than one in Green Bay. Just to give you an idea of costs.

If you stand up to eat your breakfast at a cafe bar, it will be somewhat cheaper.

Novotel has huge breakfast buffets with tons of variety to suit all the different nationalities that stay there. For me, it takes the place of paying for a large lunch--only you can decide if it's worth it to you.

Your hotel is right over the ringroad freeway and the ring boulevard, and it caters to bus tours of people from all over the world. You have to walk a fair distance over the freeway, past the bus depot (which can take you to many different places in the city) and past city of Paris housing to get to your first cafes. It's one of those deals that once you are out of the hotel, it's a fair hike to go back.

After crossing the ring road, where the tram runs, you'll see cafes and bakeries. Some make their own bread, some reheat factory bread. One, up the Boulevard du Général Leclerc is a quality bakery known for it's whole grain and old-fashion breads, but it doesn't have seats. You'll also see signs for breakfasts, such as those described above, at brasseries because there are quite a few small hotels facing the boulevard at the Porte d'Orleans. Sam's suggestion, closer to the hotel, is a chain coffee and croissant breakfast, but it's close by.

Hi, DT. It looks like you have a lot of activities and places to visit, and will want to maximize your time. In your situation, I would suck up the expense and take advantage of the time-saving hotel buffet breakfasts. The benefit is that you don't have to spend time looking for a place, then waiting for the waiter to bring "la carte," to return for the order, and to pay the "l'addition." You get going an hour earlier, and with a nice full belly that can keep you on the go all day long - except for your coffee and pastry break, of course!

I feel like I should first say my meal preferences likely don't reflect meal preferences of most people. I like good food but most of my meals are simply fuel to have energy for a lot of walking.

My most common breakfasts are some kind of fresh pastry or quiche from a bakery. I'd say that rarely exceeds three euros. I usually supplement that with a stop by a Franprix/Monoprix type store where I'll pick up something to drink and maybe cheese or fruit, never more than five euros.

Another option, if I'm staying in a place with a kitchen, is buying cheese, fruit, yogurt and maybe sliced meat at a supermarket along with some bread, butter and jam. I'll typically add tea and/or juice - pretty much everything you would get in an expensive breakfast. The portions from the store are enough to provide several meals. It probably adds up to something between five and ten euros per meal.

Extra meat cheese and bread becomes sandwiches for later.