Lonely Planet Review

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. We especially love the suite (room No 26) with the baronial four-poster bed.

Many guests appear to be students of American literature in search of the ghost of Henry Miller (1891-1980) who, in the spring of 1930, stayed in a 5th-floor mansard room here and later wrote about the experience in Letters to Emil. The lovely salon in the lobby, filled with overstuffed easy chairs, tapestries and antique sideboards, looks onto a rather trite mural of findesiècle place St-Germain des Prés and a small patch of greenery behind glass. Guestrooms are somewhat small so if you need more room, splurge on a 'superior' or 'deluxe' one (numbers ending in 4 and 5). It's a quiet hotel in general but rue Bonaparte is a busy thoroughfare. There's air-con throughout the hotel.