The creator sets out to answer what a $100 hotel room looks like in Paris by comparing three different hotels at the $100, $200, and $300 price points. She establishes her testing parameters, then provides a rapid-fire review of each hotel tier, showcasing the room size, amenities, and overall vibe through B-roll footage and voiceover narration. Finally, she delivers her takeaway that cheaper options are just as satisfying, concluding with a call-to-action to read her full article on The Washington Post.
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What does a $100 hotel room look like in Paris?
The average hotel rates in the French capital, as of February, are $346.86, which is up 13.8 percent year over year. Does that mean you can’t find a good room on a budget?
I tested properties in three price categories to see what you could get for around $100, $200 and $300, staying at:
- Hipotel Paris Père Lachaise ($99)
- @grandhoteldesbalcons ($170)
- @pulitzerparishotel ($310)
To read my full @washingtonpost article on finding cheap(er) hotels in Paris, comment with a newspaper emoji 🗞️ and I’ll send you a gift link.
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Does a $100 hotel room look like in Paris? I compared options around 100, 200, and $300 a night. My parameters, I wanted to pick hotels that were not massive chains. They had to be similar ish in price in peak season as they were when I was going in February, which is not an easy task for Paris's dynamic pricing. Here's what I found. At $99 including taxes, the hip hotel Pere Lachaise was in a lovely part of the 11th Arrondissement. My room was humongous, very spartan, pretty thin walls, but overall clean, comfortable bed, great water pressure and shower, and I loved the giant window. In the $200 range, the Rank Hotel des Balcones was a few minutes walk from Luxembourg Gardens and ten minutes from the Notre Dame. The room was small and a little worn, but it was very bright. Again, great bed and great shower, and it felt very Parisian in a nineteenth century townhouse. In the $300 category, the Hotel Pulitzer Paris in the Opera District had a glorious bad, nice amenities like an espresso maker in the room, robes and slippers, but overall, still small, pretty rank, and they pumped the hotel with signature fragrance that I thought was too strong. My takeaway, I love that you can find a cheap hotel in Paris, and I was just as happy in the two cheaper hotels than I was in the most expensive one, which is to say, you don't have to stretch your budget to the max to find something suitable. You can read my full review of the three properties plus tips on finding cheap hotels on the Washington Post.
