Just wondering how the area around the moulin rouge is to stay? I know there are a lot of sex shops but is it overly sleazy and rowdy or is it ok. We are three women travelling to Paris in April but aren%26#39;t really after a wild time!
Stayed in St Germain last time but looking for somewhere a bit cheaper this time.
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Eriskay,
personally I wouldn%26#39;t stay in that area although I know that some on TA members do and like it.
What is your budget in euro%26#39;s? I%26#39;ll bet one of us will come up with a great hotel in an area more centrally located.
Linda
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I would avoid the area immediately around Moulin Rouge. Boulevarde de Clichy is the main area for the Paris sex trade. It is not dangerous, in the sense that you are unlikely to be attacked, but women walking there at night might receive unwelcome attention.
I would suggest you stay up the hill a bit into Montmartre. There are some nice places near Place d%26#39;Abbesses. I have stayed at the Hotel Regyn%26#39;s, which has clean rooms (if rather small) for under €100. See www.regynsmontmartre.com
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Pigalle is not only a weird neighborhood with sex shops! It is a young vibrant neighborhood with among the best concert venues in Paris (la Cigale, le Divan du Monde, l%26#39;Elysées Montmartre, la Boule noire, etc), art galleries, nice bars and restaurants.
If you want to stay in the neighborhood, choose the %26quot;SOPI%26quot; new trendy area (SOuth PIgalle); it is a nice area, with a lot of food stores, bard and restaurants, around rue des Martyrs, for instance Rose Bakery that is the place where the %26quot;bobos%26quot; enjoy their brunch on Sunday mornings!
query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html…
Clotilde lives in the neighborhood:
chocolateandzucchini.com/archives/2003/11/ro…
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Staying up the hill can be nice, but definitively not central and think that you will have to climb up the hill every night when you come back to your hotel...
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There are many families living there with children so it cannot be that bad.
If you walk in an indifferent way people will not approach you with their many kinds of services.
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%26gt;%26gt;Staying up the hill can be nice, but definitively not central and think that you will have to climb up the hill every night when you come back to your hotel...%26lt;%26lt;
There is a metro station at Place d%26#39;Abbesses.
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I STRONGLY recommend the Frommers walking tour of the area.
We were the only ones in the Dali museum when went in, too. It is kind of cleverly hidden -
frommers.com/destinations/…0062020033.html
Walking Tour Monmartre
Start: Place Pigalle (Métro: Pigalle).
Finish: Place Pigalle.
Best Time: Any day it isn%26#39;t raining. Set out by 10am at the latest.
Worst Time: After dark.
Soft-white three-story houses and slender barren trees stick up from the ground like giant toothpicks -- that%26#39;s how Utrillo, befogged by absinthe, saw Montmartre. Toulouse-Lautrec painted it as a district of cabarets, circus freaks, and prostitutes. Today, Montmartre remains truer to the dwarfish Toulouse-Lautrec%26#39;s conception than it does to Utrillo%26#39;s.
MAP -
frommers.com/images/destinations/maps/jpg-20…
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Personally, I like to stay closer the center of Paris. I wouldn%26#39;t want to stay near the Moulin Rouge. That%26#39;s just me though.
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I wouldn%26#39;t like to stay there as it looks tacky, but i think if you don%26#39;t dress in miniskirts you shouldn%26#39;t get too much attention. I occasionnaly walk there at night and it not dangerous, just tacky. In short, not the quaint Paris, not picturesque but good enough if you just want a place to sleep
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Blvd de Clichy is a seedy street in an otherwise charming neighborhood. Both South of Blvd de Clichy near the rue des Martyrs and North of Blvd de Clichy near Abessess are lovely, charming, quintessentially Parisian neighborhoods (I mean literally 150 feet North or South of the Boulevard). If you can avoid spending time on Blvd de Clichy, you will love the neighborhood.
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