| Where to stay when visiting Paris is a tough question | | | | popular culture and offers many varied and interesting |
| to answer because there are so many fabulous | | | | shops, buildings, historical sites, and funky architecture |
| places. Probably the best way to begin to choose is to | | | | and people. Add to the list a plethora of interesting |
| decide what district you would prefer to be in. Paris | | | | hotels, inns, and bed and breakfasts, making your |
| has twenty districts to choose from so to keep it from | | | | decision where to stay when visiting Paris a tough but |
| becoming cumbersome you should probably divide | | | | enjoyable one. On the left bank you can find the |
| your choices into the two most popular areas, the right | | | | famous Latin Quarter whose liveliness thrives through |
| and left banks. Then whittle it down to districts based | | | | its many bistros, shops, and learning establishments. |
| on the hotel or inn that best suits you in a specific | | | | The Sorbonne as well as many other universities are |
| district. | | | | located in the Latin Quarter. |
| The right and left banks, as you probably have | | | | The right bank is where you will find the sophistication |
| guessed, refer to the right and left side of the Seine | | | | and refinement one thinks of when Paris is mentioned. |
| River which flows through central Paris roughly dividing | | | | It is also the business district where you will find the |
| it in half. The Seine flows westward which means | | | | Champs Elysees and the L'Arc de Triomphe. Where |
| when referring to the left bank one usually means the | | | | the left bank is considered more easy going and |
| southern half of Paris and the right, the northern portion | | | | bohemian, the right bank is considered very |
| of the city. These directions will be handy when | | | | metropolitan. When deciding where to stay when |
| deciding where to stay when visiting Paris. You will find | | | | visiting Paris, it is helpful to remember; the right bank |
| that even though both banks are the staple and hear | | | | can be very expensive, but also very entertaining. You |
| of Paris, they are very different from each other in | | | | find the neighborhoods of the right bank to be very |
| culture and feel. | | | | affluent and beautiful with contrasting architecture from |
| If you are into art, fashion, and the Bohemian lifestyle, | | | | very historical to very modern. Either bank's a great |
| the left bank is for you. It is the epitome of Parisian | | | | place to stay. |