Ile Saint Louis- Excellent location for Jeu de Paume Hotel

by Julesss – London – Tripadvisor

We stayed here for 2 nights in July as part of a 2 week trip in France and were very happy with the choice of hotel.
The rooms were small but well appointed, there is a bar, outside terrace and a lot of history attached the place. The best part however was the location – you are slap bang in the middle of the rue ile st louis and could not be better placed for seeing Paris. Latin quarter is 5-10 mins away; notre dame is 5 mins away and the street where the hotel is based has SO many shops; restaurants, cafes that you could in all honesty jsut stay on the island! The shops on the street include a good deal of speciality shops (cheese, olive oil, jewellary, local produce) and we found these more than suitable for all pressies to take home – plus a few bits of cheese and wine for ourselves They also organised a special champagne breakfast with flowers for a birthday for us at short notice and booked a beautiful meal for us in the evening to celebrate at a great restaurant (la place de michel if my memory serves me well). It isnt cheap ($220 i think for a double and $159 for a single excluding breakfast) but if its a one off trip and you want a good time then this is perfect and very parisien; which makes a change from what the average hotel chains have to offer..

 

I always stay on Ile Saint Louis

“Every year since 1989″
from Traverse city – 26 february 2006 (Tripadvisor)
This ideally located hotel was opened in 1988….my first of many stays there was in 1989 and each year when I traveled to Paris, I always tried to get a room at L’Hotel du Jeu de Paume, becoming over time a “habitue”…..we became friendly with the owner and her daughter, Madame Elyane Prache and Nathalie Hecker and with their, now deceased dog, Enzo. Once when we visited at Lent, a wonderful Gateau du Roi awaited us…so large, we had to share it with the entire staff of 15……The last time we were there , a slight problem with the sewage beneath the hotel caused some odor problems…in fact, one guest left in the middle of the night, creating for the staff a terrible embarrassment……but, like good friends everywhere, small inconviences are offset by the gentility of the people and we would not hesitate to return ………..