With a winning location, friendly management and little extras (like free guest kitchen and laundry access) the Marignan has a history of winning over budget travelers.

Located directly across the street from the Sorbonne, the two-star Hotel Cluny Sorbonne offers clean, basic and cheap rooms in a typical 17th-century building (with an elevator).

The three-star Hotel Minerve, located in the Latin Quarter just a ten-minute walk from Notre Dame, is a stylish and charming pick run by the same couple that owns the Familia Hotel next door.

The charming Hotel du College de France is just down the street from the Collège de France and, not surprisingly, is popular with visiting professors and other studious types.

The Hotel Esmeralda is a one-star wonder. With a "magnifique" location directly across the Seine from Notre Dame, it offers 16 funky and recently renovated rooms at reasonable rates.

Set near the base of the Rue des Ecoles, the two-star Familia Hotel has personality and perks.

Located on the busy Boulevard Saint-Michel one block north of the Sorbonne, the Hotel de Suez offers basic, two-star rooms at reasonable rates.

The hotel embraces the neighborhood's Medieval collegiate history, with three-star rooms perfect for visiting professors (and those who like to sleep near them).

The Rivoli’s 20 rooms are unapologetically plain, dated, and a bit scruffy, with thin carpeting and no artwork on the walls. (But have you looked at those rates?)

The friendly, family-run Hotel de la Herse d'Or is a simple budget hotel with a prime location along rue St-Antoine nearly all the down to the Bastille.

One of Paris's remaining "belle-époque" hotels, the two-star Hôtel Bellevue et du Chariot d'Or provides 59 simply furnished rooms along the rue de Turbigo near central Marais.

We're happy to report that the two-star Hotel Paris France is quite polished and reasonably priced, located a couple blocks south of the Place de la Republique.

Located across from the Hôtel de Ville (Paris' city hall), the two-star Grand Hôtel du Loiret is classic Paris on the cheap.

The two-star Hôtel Jeanne d'Arc feels like a slightly-funky French country home dropped into the Marais.