The 15 hotels closest to the forecourt of Notre-Dame, ranked by walking distance, with the rooms that face the cathedral. One to five stars. Checked October 2026.
★ 1-star hotel · Atout France classification of 16 October 2024
Metro 4, RER B, RER C 4 RER B C Saint-Michel Notre-Dame · 3 min walk Line 4: station closed through 19 December 2026 (works)
Metro 10 10 Cluny-La Sorbonne · 4 min walk
4 rue Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre, 75005 Paris · 16 rooms
The closest hotel in our base, about 150 metres from the forecourt by our estimate, on rue Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre, which leads to the church of the same name, by the square Viviani. Five of its six room types, from the standard double to the quadruple, are sold with a view of Notre-Dame. One star; the website says nothing about air conditioning or a lift.
★★★ 3-star hotel · Atout France classification of 18 March 2022
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)
Metro 4 4 Cité · 4 min walk
1 quai Saint-Michel, 75005 Paris · 26 rooms
On the corner of the quai Saint-Michel and rue du Petit-Pont, facing the forecourt. Christian Lacroix decorated each of the 26 rooms; the “rooms with a view” (14 m²) and the corner “Notre Dame room” (15 m²) face the cathedral, the others a quiet courtyard. Only a staircase leads to reception, so the hotel is not wheelchair-accessible.
★★★★★ 5-star hotel · Atout France classification of 22 December 2022
Metro 10 10 Maubert-Mutualité · 3 min walk
Metro 10 10 Cluny-La Sorbonne · 5 min walk
7 rue de l'Hôtel-Colbert, 75005 Paris · 39 rooms
The only five-star hotel among these fifteen, in a late eighteenth-century house whose façades and roofs were listed in 1957. Simone de Beauvoir wrote Les Mandarins in her flat at 11 rue de la Bûcherie, part of the same building. Rooms honour the painter Joaquín Sorolla; one category has a partial view of Notre-Dame.
★★★★ 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 at 15 quai Saint-Michel, all facing the cathedral and the river according to the hotel. The building is the former hôtel de Suède, where Godard filmed scenes of Breathless (1960). Fully renovated in 2022, with a junior suite under the roof for two adults and two children. Not adapted for wheelchairs.
★★★ 3-star hotel · Atout France classification of 18 July 2022
Metro 4, RER B, RER C 4 RER B C Saint-Michel Notre-Dame · 3 min walk Line 4: station closed through 19 December 2026 (works)
Metro 10 10 Cluny-La Sorbonne · 3 min walk
9-11 rue Saint-Jacques, 75005 Paris · 23 rooms
Opposite the church of Saint-Séverin on rue Saint-Jacques, four minutes from the forecourt. Its accessible room (23 m², 150 cm bed, walk-in shower) is described in detail. Some rooms look onto Saint-Séverin or the rooftops; breakfast is organic, and the hotel has a zero single-use plastic policy.
★★ 2-star hotel · Atout France classification of 11 December 2025
Metro 10 10 Maubert-Mutualité · 3 min walk
Metro 10 10 Cluny-La Sorbonne · 6 min walk
10 rue des Grands-Degrés, 75005 Paris · 10 rooms
Ten rooms in rue des Grands-Degrés, near the quai de Montebello, where the house at nos. 1–3 was listed as a historic monument in 1984. Two stars, a bar and a souvenir shop on site. The hotel states it cannot receive guests with reduced mobility, and bookings go through Booking.com rather than its own engine.
★★ 2-star hotel · Atout France classification of 15 March 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 4 Cité · 4 min walk
28 rue de la Huchette, 75005 Paris · 42 rooms
On rue de la Huchette, a pedestrian street that the hotel itself calls very lively, advising a room on the courtyard. Its restaurant, Le Jardin du Roy, serves until 1.30 a.m. Two stars, a quadruple for four and, according to the hotel, the RER about fifty metres away.
★★★ 3-star hotel · Atout France classification of 14 December 2021
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 10 10 Cluny-La Sorbonne · 4 min walk
1 rue de la Harpe, 75005 Paris · 43 rooms
At the corner of rue de la Harpe and rue de la Huchette, a minute from the Saint-Michel Notre-Dame station. Its Deluxe rooms have a balcony over the place Saint-Michel and the Seine rather than the cathedral. Rooms take three people at most, and small pets are accepted on request.
★★★ 3-star hotel · Atout France classification of 15 November 2021
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 10 10 Cluny-La Sorbonne · 3 min walk
38-40 rue Saint-Séverin, 75005 Paris · 59 rooms
Fifty-nine rooms on a pedestrian street, the largest hotel of this list. An Italian trattoria with a terrace, the RIM Café, runs on the ground floor from 11 a.m. to midnight. The junior suite on the top floor has a jacuzzi and a view over the rooftops; the “Balcony” rooms overlook the pedestrian street.
★★★★ 4-star hotel · Atout France classification of 17 May 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 10 10 Cluny-La Sorbonne · 2 min walk
22 rue de la Parcheminerie, 75005 Paris · 27 rooms
In rue de la Parcheminerie, behind Saint-Séverin, five minutes from the forecourt. One room, the Executive Panoramique on the seventh floor, has terraces of 40 m² looking towards Notre-Dame, the Panthéon and the Eiffel Tower. Rooms display original twentieth-century works by Jean Hélion, Jean Bazaine and Roger Chapelain-Midy.
★★★★ 4-star hotel · Atout France classification of 30 March 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 10 10 Cluny-La Sorbonne · 3 min walk
3 boulevard Saint-Michel, 75005 Paris · 39 rooms
At no. 3 boulevard Saint-Michel, on the 5th-arrondissement side. Its family rooms join two bedrooms for four or five people (37–38 m²). The Double Deluxe rooms all face the boulevard; a public car park, not run by the hotel, stands opposite.
★★★ 3-star hotel · Atout France classification of 16 February 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 10 10 Cluny-La Sorbonne · 2 min walk
18 rue de la Harpe, 75005 Paris · 46 rooms
A building the hotel calls Haussmannian, with an entrance canopy remade in 2019. Quadruple rooms of 26–29 m² and suites for five suit families. One room is adapted for reduced mobility, but the lift is small and guests transfer to a chair supplied by the hotel.
★★★ 3-star hotel · Atout France classification of 17 February 2022
Metro 10 10 Maubert-Mutualité · 2 min walk
Metro 10 10 Cluny-La Sorbonne · 6 min walk
19 rue Maître-Albert, 75005 Paris · 34 rooms
On rue Maître-Albert, between place Maubert and the quai de la Tournelle, six minutes from the forecourt. Each floor has its own colour; communicating rooms sleep up to five. The rooms described face the courtyard or the street, so do not count on a view of the cathedral. A small fitness room has an infrared sauna.
★★★ 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
On the 6th-arrondissement side, reached from the place Saint-Michel by seven steps and a vaulted passage. The building is the so-called hôtel de la Salamandre, linked to François I, and Laurent Maugoust designed its sixteen rooms on a Renaissance theme. Rooms are singles, twins and doubles only.
★ 1-star hotel · Atout France classification of 24 February 2026
Metro 10 10 Maubert-Mutualité · 2 min walk
Metro 10 10 Cluny-La Sorbonne · 3 min walk
13 rue du Sommerard, 75005 Paris · 30 rooms
A one-star hotel on a quiet street near the Cluny museum; the hotel says it has welcomed travellers since 1955, which we could not confirm. Guests have a free kitchen, washing machine and dryer, and breakfast is included. Rooms sleep up to five, but some share a shower or toilet with two other rooms.
This list is a measurement, not a selection by taste. We calculated the distance from every hotel in our base of 110 to the forecourt of Notre-Dame (the parvis, place Jean-Paul-II) using the coordinates of both, and kept the fifteen closest. They are ranked by that distance. The walking times are estimates: straight-line distance multiplied by 1.3 for the street layout, rounded to 50 metres, at 80 metres a minute. Crossing the Seine adds a bridge, which the estimate absorbs only roughly.
Stars are those of Atout France, the national agency that classifies hotels, as published in its register on 4 October 2026; each card shows the date of the decision. We checked on the same day that every hotel was open and taking bookings on its own website. No hotel pays to appear here.
Where they are
Notre-Dame stands on the Île de la Cité, in the middle of the river; the hotels of this list all face it from the Left Bank.
Quai Saint-Michel and rue du Petit-Pont: Notre Dame Saint-Michel and Les Rives de Notre Dame, on the riverfront itself.
Saint-Séverin and La Huchette: Mont-Blanc, Albe, Europe Saint Séverin, Parc Saint-Séverin, Henri IV Rive Gauche and Hôtel du Levant, in the narrow lanes around the church of Saint-Séverin, with the Saint-Michel Notre-Dame station at their door.
Maubert side: Esmeralda by the square Viviani, Maison Colbert, Les Degrés de Notre Dame and Hôtel de Notre Dame, in the streets running down to the quai de Montebello and the quai de la Tournelle, where the bouquinistes keep their boxes. Line 10 stops at Maubert-Mutualité.
Further back: Marignan, near the Cluny museum, and Le Clos Notre Dame, on the 6th-arrondissement side of the place Saint-Michel. Both are about six minutes away.
Arriving by car or taxi. The limited-traffic zone created in central Paris on 5 November 2024 covers the 1st to the 4th arrondissements but leaves out the islands and the whole Left Bank, so cars and taxis can drive to these hotels freely. The flat taxi fare from the airports to the Left Bank is €65 from Charles-de-Gaulle and €36 from Orly (service-public.fr, 16 January 2026).
Tourist tax. Paris adds a tax per adult and per night, collected by the hotel: €2.60 in a one-star hotel, €3.25 in a two-star, €5.53 in a three-star, €8.45 in a four-star and €11.70 in a five-star, regional surcharges included (City of Paris rates from 1 January 2026). Under-18s are exempt.
Noise. The lanes around rue de la Huchette stay lively late into the evening. If you sleep lightly, the Hôtel Mont-Blanc’s own advice — ask for the courtyard side — applies to most addresses there.
Frequently asked questions
Where should I stay to be near Notre-Dame?
On the Left Bank opposite the Île de la Cité, between the quai Saint-Michel and place Maubert. The fifteen hotels in this list are all within an estimated six minutes' walk of the cathedral forecourt, from Hôtel Esmeralda (about 150 metres) to Hôtel Marignan (about 500 metres).
Which hotels near Notre-Dame have rooms with a view of the cathedral?
Four hotels in this list sell named room categories facing Notre-Dame: Les Rives de Notre Dame (all ten rooms, according to the hotel), Esmeralda (five room types), Notre Dame Saint-Michel (the “rooms with a view” and the corner “Notre Dame room”) and Maison Colbert (a partial view). Slightly further away, the Hôtel Claude Bernard Saint-Germain and the Hôtel des Carmes also sell cathedral-view categories.
Which station serves Notre-Dame?
Saint-Michel Notre-Dame, with metro line 4 and RER lines B and C. Eleven of the hotels listed here have it as their nearest station, one to three minutes away on foot. RER B runs directly to Charles-de-Gaulle and Orly airports.
Are there cheap hotels near Notre-Dame?
Four of the fifteen are in our lowest price band (€), estimated from the official category — Esmeralda and Marignan (one star), Les Degrés de Notre Dame and Mont-Blanc (two stars). We do not quote room rates, which change nightly.
Is the area around Notre-Dame still under construction?
The cathedral's surroundings are being redesigned. The City of Paris plans most of the work until 2028, then the square Jean-XXIII in 2029–2030, so expect hoardings and diverted footpaths on the island side (paris.fr, checked 2 October 2026).
