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family friendly hotels or apartments?

Posted by (Portland) on

Traveling to Paris end of September/early October for a week and looking for family-friendly lodging. It's been 5 years since my husband I have visited the City of Lights and now it's a toddler in tow and my in-laws (so 4 adults, 1 child).

I feel sheepish to ask this but I think this is still considered high season for Paris? I'm taken aback by how little is available. Already several RS-approved establishments have written back with no availability.

Any favorite options for the following:
2 hotel rooms - separate
2 hotel rooms that are adjoined
a 2bd/2bath apartment?

Looking to stay centrally (Marais, St Germain, etc)

In light of the crackdown on VRBO and AirBnB type places, what are the existing reliable apartment rental sites? Has anyone tried Apartments Actually? They were mentioned by Frommer but kind of suspicious that there are literally no reviews of them on the internet. I've looked at Cobblestone, parisperfect, parisforrent, parisattitude - all have limited options.

Budget is comfortable but not ridiculously extravagant (ie no Shangri La or Rosewood for us).

Thanks in advance for your advice.

Posted by
7161 posts

Have you searched on booking.com? You can find both hotels and apartments on there. I don't know what you consider a 'comfortable' budget for 2 hotel rooms or an apt for 4 adults and 1 child, but I did see some good options on there that I felt were affordable (just used a dummy week at end of Sept). As for lack of availability, Sept is a big month in Paris for trade shows/conventions and hotels often fill up well in advance.

Posted by
8558 posts

September is the busiest month for hotels in Paris and the highest prices as a result. It is also a gorgeous month to visit hence conventions and trade shows scheduled then and lots of tourists.

Posted by
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thanks for the advice! I will go look at booking.com now - by comfortable, I guess I mean willing to pay upward 400-500/night (total though - which I understand may limit us to 2 moderate-star rooms or 1 decent apartment). I'm also aware that I may be looking into this "too late" (ie barely 3 months before our trip, as opposed to 4-6 months. the thing is we had just booked our flights last week).

and thanks for the insight into September. hadn't realized that and now it makes sense.

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