Maison Zen

[cdelphine]

When researching places to stay way back in May I borrowed Pauline Frommer’s Paris from the library and it quickly became my favorite guide out of all the ones I have looked at. In the guide there was a section on unusual places to stay and there we found Maison Zen.

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[bleuvalentines]

Hi there! Thanks for adding me!

I popped into your LJ and was delighted to see that you'd just returned from France and were posting photos! I hope you had a wonderful time ... can't wait to read about it! (I'm a big fan of France myself!)

[buzzlittleone]

my husband and I are planning another visit to Paris around the the holidays. Do you know how much the rates are? Maison Zen is in a district we would like to stay in since he is familiar with that area more from living there years ago.

[buzzlittleone]

ps -what made you choose this hotel over others?

[cdelphine]

Sorry for taking so long to get back to you, I am pretty sure that it cost around 400-450 euros for my Dad and I for five nights. I did a lot of researching apartments and that seems to be pretty normal, at least for high season. We didn't really have a good reason for choosing Maison Zen, lol, except that it was getting close to July and we still didn't have a place to stay. Also, I found many, many apartments for rent through the internet but it is so hard to judge through the internet and at least Maison Zen we had, if not a personal reccomendation, a professional one. And it was different and interesting.

We really liked the area that it is in. It's a pretty quiet neighborhood, not many tourists, but it has a few good restaurants and an awesome bakery and is walking distance from Gare de Lyon. There are actually like five metro stops within walking distance so that's pretty nice.

[buzzlittleone]

Darn! I wish I had remembered about this place before booking the apartment I found. This is much closer to where we wanted to be AND a lot cheaper!

PS - I added you to my FList as we have a love of Paris and travel in common and you are Local (sorta). I'm always glad to find "local" LJ friends!

[anonymous]

hi there! maison zen does look like a nice place to stay! I just wanted to "enlighten" you about the shower head:
it's not a matter of being civilized or not. And I do find rude such a commentary, though I'm not French.It's quite simple: in many European countries, shower heads are low, because many people have a shower with the shower head in their hand. It's quite practical, you know? If we want to shower sometimes, without washing the head, it's not a good idea to have it fixed above our head.

never been to Paris

[alexmustang]

I loved the details in there, I mean there were so many little features that makes it all very attractive, the Lillies, the wooden stairs, the window! it reminds me of one of those Winnipeg apartments I used to live when I was in Manitoba.