Hotel Chopin

My Fave Budget Hotel in Paris

Named after the famed composer and located in the idyllic Passage Jouffroy next to the Musée Grévin (the famous waxworks museum), the Hôtel Chopin is my favorite budget find in Paris! The building is considered an historical monument and is protected (as is the passage in which it sits). Passages are glass-covered arcades that are precursors to our modern-day shopping malls, but unlike shopping malls you generally find small, local shops inside - a great chance to feel the local flavor. Once a part of the landscape in Paris there are now relatively few passages or galeries left.

I tried the breakfast buffet which is wonderful: cereal, fresh-squeezed orange juice (that you may squeeze yourself in the machine), croissants, rolls, butter, yogurt, fresh fruit salad, café, chocolat chaud (hot chocolate), tea - oui, it's all there!

Because it was off-season I was given a larger room at the price of the cheapest (66 euro) when I'd asked for a blue room. I'd just finished a stay at a youth hostel for 8 days straight and craved privacy, insularity, and my own shower (this one was perfect - great water pressure, hot and clean).

This is the sister hotel to the Hôtel de la Bretonnerie, located in the Marais (and MUCH more expensive).

To see more photos I took of Hôtel Chopin, click below then click next to see 11 photos in all)
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For more photos of the Passage Jouffroy (14 photos total):
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Unique Quality: A beautiful covered passage with lots of cool shopping, smack dab between 2 Métro stations within a block's walk, famous touristy shops & restos on Bd Montmartre (this street becomes Bd Haussmann a block away):
Haagen Dazs
Hard Rock Café
McDonald's
Starbucks
Virgin Megastore

Two of the most famous department stores are within walking distance: Galeries Lafayette is 6 blocks away & Printemps is 8.

Next door is the wax museum, Musée Grevin. When you come home at night, you buzz the door outside of the passage, they let you in and you have the darkened passage all to yourself.

Just a few doors down from the hotel is a most wonderful patisserie (pastry shop) called Le Valentin. Outside the passage around the corner is famed Bouillon Chartier.

Photos: February 2006 & November 2007

• Opinion of Price: less expensive than average
• Related to: Romantic Travel and Honeymoons, Budget Travel, Historical Travel

Hotel Chopin Photo: H��tel Chopin - Chambre Bleu - Room 104

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