Single business woman travel in Paris
Here are my criteria:
- Close to metro Line 1 to make for an easy commuter to La Defense
- Walking distance to bistro type restaurants and perhaps a place to have a glass of wine or two on my own
- Safe for a woman walking alone in the evening.
Answer:
We recommend the Hotel Regence Etoile, a nice 3 star hotel on ave Carnot in the 17th if you want something more reasonable range (you may not if your business will pay quite a bit–I would stay in a more expensive place if I weren’t paying for it). But that is really only about a block from the Arc de Triomphe and thus the Etoile metro stop.
Its charge are very reasonable for that neighborhood and I think it is more pleasant (being really away from the direction most tourists go on the Champs-Elysees and those businesss/hotels) and there are neighborhood restaurants in that part of the 17th. It’s a very nice neighborhood, of course, but I stayed there as a single woman and dined in the area and enjoyed it. It will also be a fairly short ride to La Defense from that end.
