Le Robinet d'Or, rue Robert-Blache

A former tap factory near the canal

Le Robinet d’Or is at 17 rue Robert-Blache, in the north of the 10th arrondissement, about 150 metres from the quai de Valmy where the Canal Saint-Martin runs past the Récollets lock and the Louis-Blanc basin. The hotel is independent. Atout France, the national classification body, has rated it three stars since 29 June 2023, for 17 rooms.

The building is a former tap factory of the 1930s. The hotel keeps an industrial décor of concrete, zinc and old parquet, and its rooms are in an English style.

Rooms and services

There is a French restaurant open 11 am to 11 pm and room service from 7 am to 11 pm. The rooms are air-conditioned, pets are accepted, and a baby bed and bath are available on request. A secure underground car park can be booked. One room is adapted for reduced mobility.

The honest limit is the building itself: there is no lift in this former factory, and staff carry the bags. Families with a pushchair or guests with limited mobility should ask first, despite the adapted room.

Metro and the canal

Château-Landon (line 7) is 250 metres, three minutes on foot. Louis Blanc (lines 7 and 7 bis) is 450 metres, five minutes. Gare de l’Est, with lines 4, 5 and 7 and the Transilien P, is 500 metres, six minutes. From 102 quai de Jemmapes, the quartier’s reference point about 500 metres from the hotel, a theoretical journey takes about 26 minutes to the Louvre (walk to Château-Landon, then line 7), 25 to Notre-Dame (line 4 from Gare de l’Est) and 41 to the Eiffel Tower (République, then line 9), outside disruption.

Against its neighbours

Of the 65 hotels in our data for the Canal Saint-Martin area, this three-star has the second-smallest room count, 17, after Le Citizen Hôtel (12). Bloom House Hotel & Spa, 404 metres away, is a four-star of 91 rooms; Hôtel Les Deux Gares, 472 metres away, a four-star of 38. Hôtel Lafayette, a one-star of 22 rooms, is 345 metres away, and the Holiday Inn Paris Gare de l’Est a four-star of 207. The full spread is in our 10th arrondissement list.