Rollaway bed in Paris

Have you gone on booking.com and put in your parameters? Youy can filter for apts, hotels, how many adults and children (in your case, 4 and 1.) If they have something similar in France they probably would refer to it differently. Have you googled for the French term? I just did and found it is called "un lit pliant"...a pliant bed. Maybe using the French term will be more productive than expecting a French hotelier to un derstand our terms. Try booking.com, and read the descriptions of the sleeping arrangements in the rooms/hotels you are interested in. You may have better luck.

Oh, yes, there are aparthotels in Paris and many on this forum have recommended them. Put "aparthotels" in the search bar above, then filter for forum, and then for 6 months or less or one year or less. There should be some threads that list some of them. They may serve your purpose. Good luck!

You should look for a hotel with a triple room and a double — a double room with a rollaway bed for a third person is, as you are seeing, a nonstarter. Hotel Muguet in the 7th has a family room that sleeps five and also has triples and doubles. I’m not sure if it will be in budget in June. There are plenty of hotels with triples and doubles. As mentioned above, booking.com is a useful resource for finding two rooms for five people. You could even see if the have chambers communicates (connecting rooms).

I have been looking for triple and doubles but I not finding many that offer triples. I've done all the search parameters on Booking.com, Google hotels, vrbo and airbnb. I am not finding many triples at normal hotels!

Hotel Mugeut is lovely but is over $400 per night for a triple for June!

I just looked at booking.com searching for 2 rooms for 5 people with a $600 cap in June and it suggested 33 hotels. I’m not sure if it is offering me lower prices but there are some places that I think of as good hotels that are showing up but they are not in the 7th: for example, Hotel Bonaparte (6th), Grand Hotel des Balcons (6th), Hotel Mayet (6th). Are you okay with a double beds or must each person have her own bed? You are going during prime season with prime season prices so I suggest looking in areas other than the 7th and if possible increasing the budget. Paris was very busy when I was there earlier this month so I can only imagine how busy it will be in June and the corresponding prices.

Definitely look beyond the 7 th - it’s not that central so while Rick made it popular - it’s just not that great .

Try being open to 4 th , 5 th , 6 th , and nothing wrong with 1, 2 , 14 either .

And in France they are very strict with fire codes and occupancy - a room must have a minimum square footage to be a triple , and a double is generally going only ever take two people .

I see a few good places recommended on this thread .

Unfortunately you are also going during height of tourist season ( well tourists always come but obviously very busy April - October , with a small lull in August as less rooms are taken by business travellers )

Expect to pay at 200 -250 a room at least .

I haven’t been in 2 years ( and have been many times ) and I do see quite a price increase .

Also , absolutely make sure the hotel has ac !!!!!

It is miserable to have no heat relief after trampling around all day and often street noise precludes keeping a window open - which even if open still won’t supply a nice breeze .

There is rarely room to put a rollaway bed in a double room. I can't stress this enough -- double rooms are usually tiny; many literally would have no space to put a rollaway and if one were jammed in you would be walking on your knees across beds to get to the bathroom. We have had a room like this with our daughter on a rollaway years ago. You need a triple. Most triples we have rented have three good size singles, often quite close to each other. We once booked a triple t the Hotel des Grande Ecoles where the third bed was a sort of day bed which would be okay for a 10 year old. And that hotel has a nice garden. No AC though and upper rooms are nightmarishly hot in hot weather.

But your best bet is a two bedroom apartment with a fold out bed in the living room for the 5th person. The advantage of an apartment with a group this size is having a kitchen -- you save a ton by doing breakfast in and it is more fun. The 10 year old will love to go on the bread run in the rmorning and select breakfast pastries while others are making the coffee and getting out the juice and yogurt etc. It is also nice to have the social space of an apartment like a dining table and a couch and chairs. Many hotel rooms have nowhere to sit but the bed and certainly no place for 5 people to gather. especially in the price range you are talking about. (which I know seems high but is not in Paris alas.)

The 7th is our least favorite district so far -- and we hve stayed in over half the arrondissements of Paris. Of course it always depends on the precise location. FWIW. while we like apartment hotels and have stayed in several, they can also be awful -- be sure if you book them that you see lots of pictures and read lots of reviews. We recenty spent 5 nights in an Adagio near Bastille that was like a youth hostel -- really uncomfortable and in a building with zero amenities like laundry and commons space. Worst place we have stayed in years.

Rollaways are extremely rare. The room will have a pull out couch or nothing. The room is listed for the maximum number of people, including babies, children. There's no such thing as children sleeping for free.
I had an aparthotel at the Citiadines for a reasonable price. They are all over the city at different price ranges. You will probably have to move away from the 7th. Mine didn't have air conditioning but that didn't bother me although there was a heat wave; it could bother others.

Hotel Yllen Eiffel in the 15th has a triple and quad room. It's a lovely hotel with a life-altering breakfast and right on top of the Volontaires-Vaugirard ligne 12 metro.

Completely endorse the vital nature of AC in June in Paris. I have done a June heatwave there in an airbnb without AC and I ended up sleeping in pajamas that were wet from the washer just to stay cool, and a lot of Paris windows don't have screens (Europe as a whole, so weird for Americans). Especially with a 75 year old, it's worth paying extra or staying a little farther out to get AC.

These are fantastic suggestions, thank you! From your experience, do you have a favorite arrondissement? Rick seems to favor the 5th, 6th, and 7th. We love somewhere less touristy and 10min or less from a metro. We are open to other arrondissements, I'm really only familiar with Rick so I'd love feedback! I've been to Paris before but it's been 15 years!

There are plenty of areas around Paris to stay in that are less "touristy". But, the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th are popular for a reason.

There is something special, particularly if this is your first visit to Paris, to walk past the flood lit monuments of the Pantheon or Notre Dame or the Hotel de Ville on your way "home" after dinner. Or to see the sparkling Eiffel Tower as you stroll along the Seine. That said, there are real Parisians living in every single arrondissement in Paris including 4-7.

By the way, with the older adults in your group (or anyone with knee issues) a convenient bus stop may be better than a metro station. Some metro stations have a lot of stairs!

We have stayed in the triple at the Eiffel Seine and they also have a family room that attaches to that room. Also the Hotel Tourisme has triples and family rooms. They are reasonably priced. They are on the back side of the Eiffel Tower (Champ de Mars) and about a 7 minute walk to the 7th. Hotel Le Beaugency has a triple and double and is 1/2 block off of Rue Cler St. Hotel de la Tour Eiffel has a family room that has 3 twins and and two twins in the 7th (we have stayed here as well as all the ones listed so far.) My face is Relais Bosquet which has a family room and a connecting room in the 7th but probably won't match your budget for June.