The 'Good Stay' at the end of a quiet street in Montmartre is a perennial budget favourite and the husband and wife operating the hotel are always welcoming and helpful. It's a simple place to stay - no lift, linoleum or parquet floors, etc - but comfortable, very clean and -...

This excellent-value 34-room budget hotel is around the corner from Place de la République, and within easy walking distance of the pubs, bars and restaurants of Ménilmontant. It's a family-run place and gay friendly.

This brighter-than-bright 31-room boutique hotel, with its emphasis on sunbursts and bold colours, particularly orange and yellow, is just this side of kitsch. But it makes for a different Paris experience and fits in with its surroundings very well indeed.

This former post house, from where coaches would set out for Lyon in Burgundy to the south and Mulhouse in Alsace to the east, has been a hotel since the 1920s. Some of the rooms have recently been renovated. Internet access is via wi-fi.

This hotel dating back two (or maybe even three) centuries and opposite the delightful Place du Marché Ste-Catherine has been thoroughly renovated and decorated according - or so say their brochure and website - to the 'Vieux Paris Art' style.

The flower-bedecked 'Old Willow Tree' is a comfortable and welcoming hostelry in the northern Marais and something of a find because of its slightly unusual location just 350m (383yd) south of Place de la République. The 'superior' rooms on the 3rd and 4th floors have recently...

The 'Hotel of the Three Chicks' is a lovely property due south of Place Pigalle. It has 40 rooms, half of which are small studios with their own cooking facilities. There's wi-fi and air-conditioning throughout and one room with wheelchair access.

With 37 rooms and facing the Opéra Comique, the Favart is a stylish Art Nouveau hotel that feels like it never let go of the belle époque (beautiful age). This is an excellent choice if you're interested in shopping as the hotel is within easy walking distance of the grands...

What was once a popular student hotel in the thick of the Sorbonne area, the Select has metamorphosed into an Art Deco mini-palace, with an atrium and cactus-strewn winter garden, an 18th-century vaulted breakfast room and 67 stylish guestrooms.

Hôtel de Danemark, a positively scrumptious boutique hotel southwest of the Jardin du Luxembourg, has 15 very tastefully furnished rooms and eclectic contemporary decor contrasting with ancient stone walls.

If you are someone who likes style but in a traditional sense, choose this lovely 21-room hotel just west of the Louvre and opposite the Église St-Germain l'Auxerrois. The hotel is air-conditioned and wired for wi-fi.

This is a very charming three-star in the heart of the Marais nightlife area dating from the 17th-century. The decor of each of the 22 rooms and seven suites is unique, and some rooms have four-poster and canopy beds.

In the shadow of the capital's largest secular mausoleum and just up the hill from the Jardin du Luxembourg, the 'Pantheon Hotel' is an attractive 36-room property that feels more 'deluxe' than 'top-end'.

Someone has gone and taken an 18th-century building and spun it into the 21st-century, with tasteful greys, blacks and burgundies in the 38 guestrooms. History is reflected in the lobby, with its antique furnishings, convivial bar and open fire in winter.

Situated just up from the cafes and hubbub of place St-Germain des Prés and south of the Seine, this 30-room hotel is a tastefully appointed choice and we especially love the suite with the baronial four-poster bed.

This 31-room hotel is in a lovely 18th-century building, which rather chauvinistically makes reference to the 'great men' in the Pantheon across the square (Marie Curie is also in the crypt and has been since 1995), was given a complete overhaul in 2002 and is now more opulent...

With 20 rooms and tucked away in a quiet quayside street, this place with the most minimal of names is the stuff of romance, Paris myths and urban legends. There are rooms set aside for nonsmokers and the hotel has air-con and wi-fi throughout.

This fabulously successful (and now international) chain has studios and apartments for longer stays at 17 properties in Paris. Prices vary depending on the time of year and the property. A small studio for two people has a fully-equipped kitchen (fridge, microwave,...

This lovely and very affordable 32-room place due south of the Place de la République would be that much more attractive if it wasn't on such a busy street. Still, you get what you pay for (usually) and the location couldn't be better if you're planning to graze and/or cruise...

Done up like an 18th-century private house contemporary with Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais (1732-99) - who wrote his chef-d'œuvre Le Mariage de Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) at No 47 of the same street - this award-winning themed hotel has to be seen to be believed.

Jean-Louis Costes' eponymous 82-room hotel offers a 'luxurious and immoderate home away from home' to visiting ubermensch and A-listers. Outfitted in over-the-top (and very camp) Second Empire cast-offs with a Byzantine twist, it remains a darling of the rich and famous.

This stunning boutique hotel is in the Hôtel Costes stable and was done up by designer Jacques Garcia, one of the most fashionable interior decorators in Paris. The result: romantic French neogothic combined with Orientalia.

The 'Globe Hotel' is an eclectic caravanserai (Inn) with small but completely renovated rooms. It is located just south of the throbbing Blvd St-Germain and within easy walking distance of the Latin Quarter.

This three-star place with 23 rooms awash in antiques, old prints and fresh flowers is an oasis in the Latin Quarter just steps from Notre Dame and the Seine. All rooms have air-conditioning and are wired for wi-fi.

This 39-room hotel that unabashedly calls itself a 'boutique hotel' has a glorious front courtyard and a namesake address. Well-heeled friends swear by this discreet property.

This 54-room hotel in two buildings is owned by the same family that runs the cosy Familia Hôtel next door but, boasting an additional star, it offers just that much more comfort. Mind you, the service remains the same in both.

This hotel in the heart of the Marais is excellent value for its location. It's named after the celebrated 17th-century writer the Marquise de Sévigné, whose letters give us such a wonderful insight into the Paris of her day.

This classy small hotel with 31 well-equipped rooms is located on a quiet street between Rue Monge in the Latin Quarter and the Jardin des Plantes. The welcome is always particularly warm here - it's a member of the Logis de France hotel umbrella association which is always a...

This especially charming hotel built within a converted 17th-century convent is more Bastille than Marais but still within easy walking distance of the latter. Wooden beams on ceilings, terracotta tiles on the floors and heavy brocade drapes tend to darken the guestrooms but...

The interior of this small hostelry, with its beamed ceilings, re-made church pews and confessionals, and wrought-iron candelabra, is a Gothic historian's wet dream and just the place to release your inner Dracula.