How we chose these hotels
The centre point is the church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, at its Wikidata coordinates. We measured the straight-line distance between the church and each classified hotel of the registry and kept those within 600 m that belong to this guide: 53 with a known number of rooms, 28 of them with a fiche in our database. We took every hotel checked by hand first, then filled up to twenty by rotating between five stars, four, three, two and one, the nearest first in each level. The aim is to cover every budget rather than to stack five-star addresses.
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Nineteen of the twenty have a fiche here, and all nineteen are listed; the twentieth, Hôtel Crystal (three stars, 99 m), has none. The first eight were read by hand: Beaux-Arts, Montalembert, Lutetia, Récamier, Abbaye, Quai Voltaire, Marronniers and La Louisiane, in order of stars and then distance. The other eleven follow in the same order. For them, the official site gave the category, the rooms, the address, the metro and a few facts that the hotel states about itself. Prices are not published; the range shown on each page is an estimate from the stars.
Nine more hotels with a fiche lie inside the ring and were not drawn by the rotation: Esprit Saint-Germain, Pavillon Faubourg Saint-Germain and Pont Royal (five stars), Artus, de Buci and Louis II (four stars), de Seine and des Canettes (three stars) and du Dragon (two stars). The perimeter leaves out the Odéon and Monnaie fringe of the 6th, which belongs to our Latin Quarter guide: Aubusson, Relais Christine and Michelet Odéon, read by hand, are in it. Montalembert and Quai Voltaire stand just over the line in the 7th arrondissement, but their addresses lie inside the Saint-Germain tourist zone.
The Saint-Germain streets
Saint-Germain is a name in use, not an administrative area: it covers the north of the 6th arrondissement and the Saint-Thomas-d’Aquin district of the 7th, from the Seine to the Luxembourg garden. The church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés has been a listed monument since 1862, and Saint-Sulpice since 20 May 1915. The Luxembourg garden is free, covers 21.75 ha and received 6.2 million visitors in 2022.
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- Boulevard Saint-Germain and the streets around rue de Buci, rue Jacob and rue Bonaparte. Madison, Au Manoir, Bel Ami, Fougère, Villa des Prés, Villa Saint-Germain, Deux Continents, Marronniers, La Perle, La Louisiane, Clément and Welcome all stand within 240 m of the church and within three minutes’ walk of Mabillon (line 10) or Saint-Germain-des-Prés (line 4).
- Towards the Seine. L’Hôtel, on rue des Beaux-Arts, and Nesle, on rue de Nesle, are 286 and 397 m from the church; their nearest stations are Saint-Germain-des-Prés (five minutes) and Odéon (five minutes).
- Saint-Sulpice. Récamier and Abbaye, on line 4 at Saint-Sulpice.
- Boulevard Raspail. Lutetia, by Sèvres-Babylone (lines 10 and 12).
- The Seine and the 7th. Quai Voltaire and Montalembert, on line 12 or the RER C at Orsay.
Which hotel for whom
For a first visit, our sheet rates the area recommended; the hotels a minute or two from Mabillon or Saint-Germain-des-Prés, such as Madison, Villa des Prés, Clément or La Louisiane, put most of it on foot. Our neighbourhood sheet lists L’Hôtel, Récamier and Abbaye for couples. Families have the Luxembourg garden, family rooms at Marronniers and Lutetia, communicating rooms at Récamier, and a family service at Bel Ami. Anyone with a small budget should read the notes on the one- and two-star hotels, or the page on places to stay in Paris on a budget. The tourist tax in 2026 is €15.93 per adult per night in a palace, €11.70 in a five-star hotel, €8.45 in a four-star, €5.53 in a three-star, €3.25 in a two-star and €2.60 in a one-star; minors do not pay.
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To narrow the choice, see the boutique hotels of the 6th arrondissement, the 6th arrondissement list and the comparison of the Right Bank and the Left Bank.
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