Hotels in Paris
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Hotels in Paris
It's a good thing we don't live in the late 1920s any more. George Orwell's experiences of hotels in Paris are a million kilometres from what we know today. In "Down and Out in Paris in London", a gripping tale of low-life in the capital cities on both sides of the channel, Orwell relates horror stories about staying in a Paris hotel.
The Rue du Pot de Fer in the Latin Quarter of Paris was the location of a cheap hotel where Orwell lived: "My hotel was called the Hotel des Trois Moineaux. It was a dark, rickety warren of five storeys, cut up by wooden partitions into forty rooms. The rooms were small and inveterately dirty, for there was no maid."
Worried about your hotel in the Latin Quarter being filthy? Fast forward to the 21st century and stay in the Hotel Du Brésil, a two-star hotel in the Rue Le Goff where the rooms are equipped with private bathroom and other services including laundry and dry cleaning. Or stay in the Carofftel-Gobelins in the Avenue Des Gobelins where the rooms have a hairdryer and iron. Nothing unusual about that, you might think, but it's a step-up from 80 years ago. Guests staying in inexpensive hotels in the Latin Quarter can scrub up well before visting the nearby Jardin du Luxembourg or Jardin des Plantes.
Orwell continues: "The walls were as thin as matchwood, and to hide the cracks they had been covered with layer after layer of pink paper, which had come loose and housed innumerable bugs."
You won't have any problems with noisy neighbours or poor decorations in a Latin Quarter hotel room today. At the three-star Elyssa-Luxembourg on Rue Gay Lussac, rooms are soundproofed, while at the Hotel de Notre Dame on Rue Maitre Albert, every room is uniquely styled and decorated and equipped with a marble bathroom. These days you won't be disturbed by noise after a hard day's sightseeing at Notre Dame Cathedral or the Louvre.
What else could mar your stay in a Paris hotel? Orwell recalls: "One day there turned up at the hotel a young Italian who called himself a compositor. The Italian paid the rent and stayed six nights at the hotel. During this time he managed to prepare some duplicate keys, and on the last night he robbed a dozen rooms, including mine. I was left with just forty-seven francs." Have no fear of your stuff being stolen in a Paris hotel today. The four-star Grand Hotel Saint Michel on Rue Cujas has a safety deposit box while the Hotel Le Petit Paris has a 24-hour front desk to keep an eye on people coming and going. You'll have spending money for a drink in a café in the St Germain des Pres district. Paris Hotels have indeed changed since George Orwell's day.
