Staying in 14th arrondissement in Paris

I love the 14th and have stayed not too far from there on Rue Delambre a couple of weeks a few years ago. It is an area full of amenities -- lots of cafes, the great Paris Brasseries on Blvd Montparnasse, a beautiful Bouillon Chartier, the famous street Rue Montparnasse which has several good crepe restaurants, a good aligot restaurant le Plomb du Cantal and a big Monoprix which will have anything you could have forgotten to pack. The nearby cemetery Montparnasse is interesting with several well known residents including Sartre and de Beauvoir and Dreyfus.

It is very well connected by metro at Gare Montparnasse and nearby . It is also a fairly easy walk through very nice streets with interesting shops to the Luxembourg gardens and then through the gardens to the center. When we stayed near here we would walk one way and take the train back.

The Eiffel Tower is on the edge of Paris and not near anything else. It is not a very long walk to where your hotel is. We walked it a couple years ago with our grandchild on our way to get crepes after our ET visit -- went to Joselin on Rue Montparnasse.

We stayed at Hotel Lenox Montparnasse, which I believe was in the 14th, and the metro was great. It was part of our wandering around to find different ways to walk to the metro (we used Apple Maps but any nav will work.) I loved our little neighborhood, and we were close to a sweet bakery as well as a grocer and many dining options. Darn, now you make me want to go back. Have a lovely time!

Thank you both so much!

Do you follow Rick Steves Guide Vero of the France with Vero blog? She leads a lot of Rick's tours that stay at the Lennox Montparnasse so does some videos in the neighborhood. Here is a recent one of a really nice restaurant called Le Select which is in the area.

https://youtu.be/xlB_SftPL6U?si=nCx5DTudWa36LNBK

I'm not much of a drinker but I had the best Saint-Germain spritz at a restaurant called Odessa right across from the Edgar Quinet Metro station.

This depends on how much you like to walk or are able to, walking is usually the first and best option. Followed by Metro.

Put your from and to into Google maps and you'll get the various transit options. Buses can be good because you get scenery but they have to deal with traffic.

The square around Edgar Quinet is a great place to get a drink and people watch -- very pleasant spot. Can't remember if our regular cafe was Odessa or one of the others but we have often enjoyed a mojito while watching the world go by there. (Mojitos are oddly popular in Paris these past few years and I have had many a very good one there)

The Pullman Montparnasse (ex-Le Méridien) is still very central, a short metro ride away to many places in the city.
It is a good location. The immediate surroundings do not look like "canonical Paris", but walk 5 min to the north and you are in a charming area around rue de la Gaîté / Edgar Quinet.

Thank you, everyone!