Fourteen small hotels of 10 to 23 rooms in the 5th and 6th arrondissements, each with a signed or themed interior, ranked by size. Checked October 2026.
★★★★ 4-star hotel · Atout France classification of 2 December 2022
Metro 4, RER B, RER C 4 RER B C Saint-Michel Notre-Dame · 1 min walk Line 4: station closed through 19 December 2026 (works)
Metro 4 4 Cité · 4 min walk
15 quai Saint-Michel, 75005 Paris · 10 rooms
Ten rooms, a count matched only by Villa d'Estrées, at 15 quai Saint-Michel. The hotel describes a complete renovation reopened in spring 2022, with toile de Jouy, beams and exposed stone, and says each room is different. A junior suite under the roof takes two children on a sofa bed. Parking is booked by the hotel in a public car park nearby.
★★★★ 4-star hotel · Atout France classification of 17 July 2023
Metro 4, RER B, RER C 4 RER B C Saint-Michel Notre-Dame · 1 min walk Line 4: station closed through 19 December 2026 (works)
Metro 4, 10 4 10 Odéon · 4 min walk
17 rue Gît-le-Cœur, 75006 Paris · 10 rooms
Ten rooms in rue Gît-le-Cœur, restyled in the manner of Les Hôtels Saint-Louis, the group it recently joined. Every room has a kitchen corner with a microwave and a Nespresso machine. Breakfast is served across the street in the Résidence des Arts. Villa d’Estrées states that it is not accessible to guests with reduced mobility.
★★★ 3-star hotel · Atout France classification of 1 February 2023
Metro 4, RER B, RER C 4 RER B C Saint-Michel Notre-Dame · 1 min walk Line 4: station closed through 19 December 2026 (works)
Metro 4, 10 4 10 Odéon · 3 min walk
14 rue Gît-le-Cœur, 75006 Paris · 11 rooms
Eleven rooms and suites, with reception on the ground floor of the Villa d'Estrées opposite. The Suite Prestige under the roof (55–60 m²) sleeps six. Pets are accepted for a fee. The hotel itself places its address in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, though rue Gît-le-Cœur is measured here by its Saint-Michel Notre-Dame station, one minute away.
★★★★ 4-star hotel · Atout France classification of 18 January 2022
Metro 10 10 Maubert-Mutualité · 4 min walk
Metro 10 10 Cardinal Lemoine · 4 min walk
50 rue des Bernardins, 75005 Paris · 13 rooms
Thirteen rooms, five of them apartments, each with a kitchenette, and themed on the entourage of Henri IV. A hammam is open from 8.30 a.m. to 11 p.m., and massages are given in the room, not in a treatment cabin. Pets are not allowed, and the hotel says it cannot receive guests with reduced mobility.
★★★ 3-star hotel · Atout France classification of 17 November 2023
Metro 4, RER B, RER C 4 RER B C Saint-Michel Notre-Dame · 1 min walk Line 4: station closed through 19 December 2026 (works)
Metro 4, 10 4 10 Odéon · 4 min walk
22 rue de l'Hirondelle, 75006 Paris · 16 rooms
Sixteen rooms in the house at 20–22 rue de l'Hirondelle known as the hôtel de la Salamandre, attributed to François I, with a salamander relief above the porch. Laurent Maugoust designed the interiors on a Renaissance theme. There is a library lounge but no bar, and the rooms are singles, twins and doubles only.
★★★★ 4-star hotel · Atout France classification of 23 February 2023
Metro 4, 10 4 10 Odéon · 4 min walk
Metro 10 10 Cluny-La Sorbonne · 6 min walk
23 rue Racine, 75006 Paris · 17 rooms
Sixteen rooms and one suite, set around an inner garden, on rue Racine beside the place de l'Odéon. The hotel describes a Renaissance-Italian décor of fabric-hung walls, panelling and restored antiques, and offers one room for guests with reduced mobility. The lounge has a fireplace. Two Deluxe Family rooms of 31 m² take four people.
★★★★ 4-star hotel · Atout France classification of 22 February 2023
Metro 4, RER B, RER C 4 RER B C Saint-Michel Notre-Dame · 1 min walk Line 4: station closed through 19 December 2026 (works)
Metro 4, 10 4 10 Odéon · 4 min walk
9 rue Gît-le-Cœur, 75006 Paris · 19 rooms
Twelve rooms and seven suites with exposed beams, in the former Beat Hotel where Ginsberg, Orlovsky, Corso and Burroughs stayed from 1956–1957. The hotel says the building dates from 1480; we could not confirm that. A family suite has a mezzanine under the roofline. Breakfast is served from 8 a.m. to noon, in the room if preferred.
★★★★ 4-star hotel · Atout France classification of 27 July 2026
Metro RER B RER B Luxembourg · 1 min walk
5 impasse Royer-Collard, 75005 Paris · 19 rooms
Nineteen rooms in the impasse Royer-Collard, a quiet residential dead end, with a planted décor throughout. The bar lounge serves wines, champagnes and cocktails. The ground-floor Appartement parisien (45 m², private entrance) takes five, and one room is adapted for reduced mobility. Classified four stars on 27 July 2026.
★★★ 3-star hotel · Atout France classification of 24 April 2025
Metro 10 10 Cluny-La Sorbonne · 3 min walk
Metro 4, 10 4 10 Odéon · 4 min walk
1 rue Racine, 75006 Paris · 20 rooms
Opened in March 2025 by the Madeho group in the former Hôtel Petit Belloy, with a knowledge theme: patterns from Sorbonne lecture halls, books on the shelves, quotations from authors. Twenty rooms on rue Racine, at the corner of boulevard Saint-Michel; pets are accepted and family rooms are available. The press credits the interiors to the agency Laune Architecture.
★★★★ 4-star hotel · Atout France classification of 7 December 2021
Metro RER B RER B Luxembourg · 3 min walk
214 rue Saint-Jacques, 75005 Paris · 20 rooms
Twenty rooms in rue Saint-Jacques, decorated by Sybille de Margerie with Lelièvre and Pierre Frey fabrics. The hotel gives a long history of the house, from a coaching post to an artists' haunt, which we could not check. Some Deluxe rooms have a terrace or balcony, subject to availability. It holds the European Ecolabel, and an 18 m² Superior room is adapted for reduced mobility.
★★★ 3-star hotel · Atout France classification of 3 January 2024
Metro 7 7 Les Gobelins · 3 min walk
Metro 7 7 Censier-Daubenton · 5 min walk
18 avenue des Gobelins, 75005 Paris · 21 rooms
Twenty-one rooms on avenue des Gobelins, the one address here on the southern edge of the district, with the Gobelins station 80 metres away according to the hotel. The look is grey with red graphic lines, each room dressed individually. Triples take a double and a single bed; there is no quadruple. Breakfast runs from 7 to 10 a.m.
★★★★ 4-star hotel · Atout France classification of 24 February 2023
Metro RER B RER B Luxembourg · 5 min walk
Metro RER B RER B Port Royal · 8 min walk
3 rue de l'Abbé-de-l'Épée, 75005 Paris · 22 rooms
Twenty-one rooms and a suite in a building the hotel dates to 1870, said to have been a boarding house where Rilke stayed. Furniture is made to measure, with toile de Jouy and Pierre Frey fabrics, and a library lounge holds about 200 books. An honesty bar and room service run around the clock. Some bathrooms have whirlpool baths.
★★★★ 4-star hotel · Atout France classification of 2 February 2022
Metro 4, 10 4 10 Odéon · 1 min walk
Metro 10 10 Mabillon · 4 min walk
9 carrefour de l'Odéon, 75006 Paris · 22 rooms
Twenty-two rooms, each named after a writer and facing the carrefour de l'Odéon. The ground floor houses Le Comptoir du Relais Saint Germain, a bistro linked by the hotel's website to the chef Yves Camdeborde; the chef's exact role is not established. The Deluxe Hammam room has a steam shower. The hotel is not accessible to wheelchair users.
★★★ 3-star hotel · Atout France classification of 23 January 2023
Metro 4, 10 4 10 Odéon · 2 min walk
Metro 4, RER B, RER C 4 RER B C Saint-Michel Notre-Dame · 2 min walk Line 4: station closed through 19 December 2026 (works)
23 rue Serpente, 75006 Paris · 23 rooms
Twenty-three rooms, all different, on rue Serpente between Saint-André-des-Arts and the École de Médecine. The hotel dates its house and beams to the seventeenth century, a claim we found no listing to confirm. It belongs to the Hotels en Ville collection. The triple room is 16 m², there is no room for four, and the hotel is not adapted for reduced mobility.
The test has two parts that anyone can check. First, the hotel must show, on its own website, a deliberate interior: a named decorator or architect, a historical or literary theme, or rooms dressed one by one. Second, it must have no more than 23 rooms, a threshold that keeps the true small houses out of the 110 hotels of our base. Fourteen hotels pass. They are ordered by number of rooms, smallest first, with ties broken by name.
We do not judge taste. A theme counts because the hotel states it, and when a story about a building rests only on the hotel’s word we say so. Stars are those of the Atout France register, with the date of each decision shown on the card. Every hotel was confirmed open on its own website on 4 October 2026, and none pays to be listed.
Where they are
Two clusters hold eight of the fourteen. Rue Gît-le-Cœur and rue de l’Hirondelle, just off the place Saint-Michel, shelter the Relais Hôtel du Vieux Paris, Villa d’Estrées, Résidence des Arts and Le Clos Notre Dame. Around the Odéon, on the 6th-arrondissement side, stand Le Relais Médicis, Du Savoir, Relais Saint-Germain and Du Lys. These eight addresses sit on the 6th-arrondissement side, on the border between the Latin Quarter and Saint-Germain.
The others are scattered: Les Rives de Notre Dame on the quai Saint-Michel, Résidence Henri IV on rue des Bernardins, Les Jardins du Luxembourg and Le Petit Paris towards the Luxembourg garden, Le Relais Saint Jacques on the rue de l’Abbé-de-l’Épée, and Garance by the Gobelins. For the wider choice around each landmark, see hotels near Notre-Dame and hotels near the Panthéon; for the whole district, hotels in the 5th arrondissement.
Small hotels trade services for character. Relais Saint-Germain is the only one of the fourteen with a restaurant on site, while Les Jardins du Luxembourg runs a bar lounge and Le Relais Saint Jacques an honesty bar. Several state in writing that they are not adapted for reduced mobility: Villa d’Estrées, Résidence des Arts, Résidence Henri IV, Relais Hôtel du Vieux Paris, Relais Saint-Germain and Du Lys. Breakfast is sometimes served in a neighbouring house of the same group, as Villa d’Estrées does, taking its breakfast at the Résidence des Arts opposite.
Frequently asked questions
What counts as a boutique hotel in this list?
We kept the hotels that present themselves with a signed, themed or individually dressed interior in our database, and that have 23 rooms or fewer. Fourteen hotels pass both tests, from ten rooms at Les Rives de Notre Dame to 23 at Hôtel du Lys. A hotel with 44 rooms that calls itself a boutique hotel is left out.
Which boutique hotels are in the 5th arrondissement and which in the 6th?
Six sit in the 5th — Les Rives de Notre Dame, Résidence Henri IV, Les Jardins du Luxembourg, Le Petit Paris, Le Relais Saint Jacques and Garance. The other eight are on the 6th side, around rue Gît-le-Cœur, rue de l'Hirondelle, the Odéon and rue Serpente.
Are boutique hotels in the Latin Quarter expensive?
Nine of the fourteen are four-star, with a price band of €€€ estimated from the official category; five are three-star (€€). We quote no room rates, which change nightly.
Which of these hotels is closest to a metro station?
Les Rives de Notre Dame, Le Clos Notre Dame and the three hotels of rue Gît-le-Cœur are all one minute from Saint-Michel Notre-Dame, which has line 4 and RER B and C for the airports. Relais Saint-Germain is one minute from Odéon, and Les Jardins du Luxembourg one minute from Luxembourg.
Which boutique hotels can accommodate a family?
Villa d'Estrées has quadruples of 30–35 m², Résidence des Arts a suite for six, Résidence Henri IV an apartment for four and a family room for six, and Le Relais Saint Jacques a family room for up to six. Check each hotel's own page for the exact configuration.
