Paris has
private hostels popular with youth and students,
at which you need no official hostel membership
card.
Perhaps the best way to find a hostel in
your price range is through Hostelbookers:
Young
and Happy Hostel
This private hostel in an old four-story
apartment building in the Latin
Quarter has two-, three-, and four-bedded dorm
rooms. Accommodations are spartan to say
the least, but the mood is youthful and
upbeat.
80 Rue Mouffetard, 75005 Paris (Métro:
Monge). 60 beds. Closed daily 11 am-5 pm. Book Young and Happy Hostel, Paris, France with Hostelbookers
The 3 Ducks Hostel
Run by students, this basic hostelry is
in southwestern Paris, in the 15e arrondissement.
The spirit is free and easy, the beds simple
and cheap. Take the Métro to the
Félix
Faure station, then walk along Rue du Commerce
toward the church, which is the centerpiece
of Place Etienne Pernet; or walk southwest
along Rue du Commerce from the Commerce
Métro station.
5 Place Etienne Pernet, 75015 Paris (Métro:
Félix
Faure or Commerce). 40 beds in one-, two-,
three-, and four-bedded rooms. Closed 11
am-5pm. Book The 3 ducks Hostel, Paris, France
with Hostelbookers.