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Ideally located in the heart of the historic Marais district, in close proximity to the Place des Vosges, the Ile Saint-Louis and the Village Saint-Paul, the hotel Saint-Louis Marais combines the quaint, old-world charm of an ancient dwelling with all the comforts and conveniences of a modern hotel.
The style of the decoration and the warmth of the design, with its wooden beams and tiled floors, create an atmosphere of peace, quiet and serenity. Our hotel is a haven of peace and quiet in one of the most vibrant and fashionable districts of Paris.
We cordially invite you to come enjoy the “art de vivre” which makes Paris such an enchanting city.
Our rooms
The hotel consists of 19 rooms on four floors:
Single rooms with shower
Standard Double rooms with shower
Superior Double or Twin* rooms with bathtub
Triple rooms with bathtub
Junior Suites with bathtub
One of our rooms has a kitchenette equipped with a sink, a fridge and a microwave oven.
* 2 separate beds
Hotel services:
A personalized airport shuttle service (Check our prices)
A 24/7 concierge service
A continental breakfast service from 7:00 AM until 11:00 AM
Cool soft drinks available in lobby
Business office (PC, printer, Hi speed internet, copy & fax machines)
French or foreign newspapers & magazines
Baby cots
Complimentary luggage storage
Non smoking rooms available
Room services:
WiFi access (Wireless Internet connection) for your laptop
Hair dryer
Private bathroom with W.C.
Direct access phone line with extra outlet for modem use
In-room safe
Cable TV with multiple languages including English/CNN
Wake-up service
Additional services
The hotel staff will be happy to make reservations for:
Restaurants
Theater and Opera
Travel tickets (train, plane, car rental…)
Sightseeing vouchers (Tours of Paris, Cabarets…)
In addition:
Laundry service is also available
A gym club is close to the hotel
We regularly organize historical sightseeing tours (Le Marais quarter…)
We can also organize customized trips beyond Paris (Normandy, Versailles…)
Rooms Services Prices
Single room with shower € 99.00
Standard Double room with shower € 115.00
Superior Double or Twin* or Triple room with bathtub € 140.00
Junior Suite with bathtub (3 or 4 persons) € 160.00
Breakfast € 8.00
City tax (per night & per person) € 0.78
Baby cribs (on request) Free
Parking (per day - on request) € 18.00
Hotel airport shuttle Number of passengers Orly (1 way) CDG (1way)
From 1 to 2
€ 40.00
€ 55.00
From 3 to 4
€ 50.00
€ 75.00
From 5 to 6
€ 60.00
€ 90.00
Our terms of sale
Any reservation requests, once received, will be handled within 24 hours.
We will confirm room availability and prices. You will be asked to provide a bank credit card number to guarantee your booking.
Your reservation will be confirmed upon receipt of payment for the first night of your stay.
This deposit is fully refundable if cancellation is made more than 72 hours prior to your scheduled arrival.
The hotel accepts VISA, Master Card, American Express, Diners Club cards, Travelers checks, Bank debit cards and cash.
Our check-in / check-out policy
Our guests can check in any time after 1:00 PM
Check out time is 12:00 noon
Beyond those schedules, a free luggage space (24/7) is available for our guests.
Bus stops: Sully-Morland, La Cerisaie, Birague or Saint-Paul
Parking lots
The hotel has three parking lots available in a public parking close by (open 24/7). If you wish to book one of these parking lots, mention it in the "Comments" field when you fill the reservation form.
Price for one day: € 18.00
To take the Metro to our hotel from
Orly airport
Roissy- Charles de Gaulle airport
The hotel proposes a personalized shuttlle service from & to Orly airport and Roissy-Charles De Gaulle airport
The Marais district is one of the oldest quarters in Paris. The word “marais” means a marsh or swamp. Before the Seine River was confined by the high stone quais it has today, Paris was surrounded by a belt of marshes. Raised streets - among them the Saint-Antoine street - were build during Roman times in order to cross these marshes. In 879, Charles the Bold gave these marshes to the Sainte Opportune Abbey, and the monks drained them to transform them into fields for agriculture. At the end of the Middle Ages, most of these fields were covered by fruit trees.
When King Philippe Auguste was about to leave for a crusade in the 12th century, he decided to build a high wall around Paris in order to protect the city from Viking raiders in his absence. The Marais district was outside this enclosure but fortified gates were created to allow access from the city to the surrounding agricultural fields. Rue des Francs Bourgeois, a principal street of the Marais, ran along the outside perimeter of the city wall.
Around 1360, Charles V decided to build a new city wall protecting a wider territory, so the Marais became part of the city of Paris, and became famous when Charles V decided to move his court to a royal palace, named the Hotel Saint-Paul, built by his predecessor Jean le Bon in the Marais. Near this royal palace was a square used for jousting tournaments, where, in 1559, King Henri II was killed while jousting. His widow, Marie di Medicis, razed the royal palace of the period and left the Marais for her new Palais de Luxembourg. The site of the razed palace became the “Place Royale”.
Under the reign of Henri IV in 1609, the “Place Royale” or Royal Square (later renamed “Place des Vosges” by Napoleon to honor the first region of France to pay its taxes to his new government) was built into an elegant square of architecturally unified mansions, all connected by a covered arcade. This square became the center of the Marais, and for most of 17th century, the Marais was the cultural center of the western world. Every Prince and Ambassador visiting Paris started the visit at the “Place des Vosges”. Wealthy noblemen, courtiers, bankers and merchants built their private mansions, called “Hotels Particuliers”, around the Place Royale, or in the surrounding streets of the Marais. These mansions were built and decorated by the best craftsmen of the 17th century, the “Grand Century” of French art and architecture, and were known for their sober street facades, which hid elegant courtyards, gardens and palatial living quarters inside.
By the end of the 17th century, the Royal Square had begun to lose some of its appeal, as newer, more fashionable streets were developed for the wealthy along the Seine to the west in the direction of Versailles, where Louis XIV had relocated his court from Paris. The Boulevard Saint-Germain and the Faubourg Saint-Honoré, became trendy, and the Marais began a long period of decline.
The storming of the Bastille, which started the French Revolution, marked a radical change in the fortunes of the Marais. The hotels were abandoned, sold or confiscated. Their noble owners left France or retreated to their country estates if they were lucky enough to escape jail or beheading.
The once elegant buildings were subdivided into multiple apartments or converted to factories and storehouses and nobody took care of them. By the beginning of the 20th century the Marais had become a sprawling slum, with much of its former grandeur destroyed or obscured by grime and neglect. The commission of the « Old Paris », that was created in 1897, to review the decaying architecture of the Marais and to advise the City on which buildings should be preserved. The city of Paris, with the help of the French Government, bought some of the nicest buildings in order to renovate them and give them a new life. In 1962, the government and the City voted to enact a preservation law written by André Malraux, funding the renovation of the historic buildings of the Marais. This transformation generated a huge social change in this area. Factories disappeared from the old mansions and were replaced by museums, government agencies, elegant shops and restaurants, and an increasingly wealthy population of private residents who admired the district for its historic charm, cultural diversity, and urban chic. Today, the Marais is again one of Paris’ most desirable and fashionable places to live.
Hotel Saint-Louis Marais
1, rue Charles V
75004 Paris
FRANCE
+33 (0)1 48 87 87 04
+33 (0)1 48 87 33 26
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