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Where to Stay in Saint-Germain-des-Prés

Compare Hôtel Bel Ami near the boulevard cafés, L’Hôtel—where Oscar Wilde spent his final months—and La Louisiane, an independent hotel with a long artistic and literary history.

Choose Hôtel Bel Ami for Café de Flore, Les Deux Magots, and Brasserie Lipp; L’Hôtel for its Oscar Wilde history; or La Louisiane for a simpler stay in a hotel associated with Jean-Paul Sartre, Juliette Gréco, Miles Davis, and other artists.

Illustration of a Saint-Germain street with a hotel, café terrace, gallery window, and bicycles.
Editorial illustration

Choose the Saint-Germain experience

Hôtel Bel Ami puts the classic café circuit at the center of the stay. L’Hôtel offers a smaller, more intimate setting with Oscar Wilde history inside the building. La Louisiane is the simpler choice, with rooms that reflect its independent character and a long record of artistic life.

Plan around the places

See what each hotel puts within your orbit

A quick guide to the cafés, bookshops, and landmarks that pair naturally with each stay. This shows relationships, not street distances.

  1. Hôtel Bel Ami

    7-11 rue Saint-Benoît

    • Café de Flore

      One of Saint-Germain’s landmark cafés, alongside Les Deux Magots and Brasserie Lipp.

    • Les Deux Magots

      On Place Saint-Germain-des-Prés, near the neighborhood’s other historic cafés.

    • Brasserie Lipp

      Part of the historic boulevard Saint-Germain café trio.

  2. L’Hôtel

    13 rue des Beaux-Arts

  3. Hôtel La Louisiane

    60 rue de Seine

Hotels to consider

Watercolor illustration of Hôtel Bel Ami’s cream façade and central glazed bay on rue Saint-Benoît.
Hôtel Bel Ami’s façade on rue Saint-Benoît. Editorial illustration.

Well placed for exploring

Hôtel Bel Ami

7-11 rue Saint-Benoît · 75006 Paris

A good base for Café de Flore, Les Deux Magots, Brasserie Lipp, and the nearby gallery streets.

Good to know: Ernest Hemingway’s Cardinal-Lemoine address and the rue Delambre cafés are in other parts of the Left Bank.

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The entrance and cream stone façade of L’Hôtel on rue des Beaux-Arts.
L’Hôtel on rue des Beaux-Arts, photographed in 2019. Photo: Celette. Source · CC BY-SA 4.0

Character and history

L’Hôtel

13 rue des Beaux-Arts · 75006 Paris

Choose L’Hôtel if staying in Oscar Wilde’s final home matters as much as exploring the cafés, galleries, and literary addresses of Saint-Germain.

Good to know: The hotel has only 20 rooms, a very small elevator, and areas that may be difficult for travelers with reduced mobility.

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Watercolor illustration of Hôtel La Louisiane’s present-day red entrance and pale stone façade on rue de Seine.
Hôtel La Louisiane’s present-day entrance on rue de Seine. Editorial illustration.

Character and history

Hôtel La Louisiane

60 rue de Seine · 75006 Paris

Choose Hôtel La Louisiane for its history as a Saint-Germain address for writers, artists, and musicians.

Good to know: France-Amérique describes the rooms as spartan, so the appeal is the hotel’s character and history rather than polished luxury.

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