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Packed with personality, the Hotel du Marais "Bistrot" offers impossibly cheap student-quality singles and doubles, in the newly hip northern Marais district, right next to the Marché des Enfants Rouges. You won't find any rooms here with private facilities, but you will find a good, clean bed for mega-cheap. We're talking cheaper than a youth hostel.
The smiling Monsieur Bébert runs his creaky, pre-war hotel from the counter of the old Parisian bistro on the street level, where young travelers (and those with youthful spirits and budgets) congregate and caffeinate. The café fills up in the morning, with guests flipping through their Let's Go's and Lonely Planets, hitting up Monsieur for local advice.
Upstairs in the rooms, painted terra-cotta floors and wallpaper give the simple, tidy rooms a burst of color. The metal-framed dorm-style beds can be a bit saggy, and there are no electric outlets (you'll have to charge your telephone in the bistro), but each room is equipped with a sink. Showers, located on each floor, will cost you €3 a cleaning, though the Turkish Style toilet (squat over the hole, folks!), is always free.
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