Detailed Review
The Hotel de Buci has been in the family since 1950. Rue de Buci is charming market street just off the boulevard Saint Germain. The hotel combines a cosmopolitan air with old-world manners. Looking very discrete from the outside, attentive service and niceties like slippers. Very choice, right in the centre of things, with double glazing that shuts out the noise of the street market below. The roomy lobby has Art Deco club chairs, the rooms are decorated with designer fabrics et bright paintings; and the bathrooms are quite luxurious.
This boutique hotel located in the heart of Saint Germain des Pres, the Hotel de Buci is ideally situated. As close to the business area as to the top fashion boutiques, you can walk to most central Paris attractions: Pont des Arts, Sorbonne, the Latin Quarter, Luxembourg garden, Notre Dame, the Louvre and Orsay Museums.
Independent Reviews
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"Family-run, hideaway boutique in great area of St Germain"
Wonderfully quiet and comfortable hideaway, run by the same family for 40 years. Fine fabrics, wooden beams, a personal collection of paintings and Lilly the dog make for a memorable stay.
Hotel de Buci
By Jamie Dunford Wood
After 40 years in the same family you would expect this centrally located left bank hotel - formerly an artist's studio, and 400 years old - to have plenty of 'patina', and so it does. Despite recent and fairly extensive renovation - a/c, electric blinds, quality fabrics and decent tvs - the Buci has managed to retain its character, so that guests return year after year, many bringing presents for Lili the dog who belongs to Leonie, the owner.
As with many family-run hotels, it is the personal service as well as the character that draws them. While downstairs is full of a rich collection of paintings, antique and contemporary furniture and objets, the rooms upstairs are fairly uniform in décor, if not size, though the dominant colour changes on each floor. The 24 rooms are generally small, but warm and cocoon-like, with rich fabrics and colours. For size, the superiors are possibly better than the more expensive deluxes, unless you like the two room set-up, like mini-suites. The a/c units are all individual to each room, so 'preventing the spread of microbes', and the blinds ensure total black-out and total quiet, important for this busy night-time spot close to St Germain church. Firm matresses and expensive pillows complete the comfort factor. Three suites provide family accommodation.
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