Hôtel du Nord – Le Pari Vélo is a 23-room budget hotel at 47 rue Albert Thomas in the 10th arrondissement, a five-minute walk from Place de la République and about three minutes from the Canal Saint-Martin. It lends guests bicycles at no charge, serves breakfast in a vaulted stone cellar for a separate fee, and has a lift. It is not in Montmartre, and it is not the Hôtel du Nord from the Marcel Carné film. That building is a brasserie 200 meters away and stopped being a hotel in 1980.
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Hôtel du Nord – Le Pari Vélo at a glance
Détail | What we verified |
|---|---|
Adresse | 47 rue Albert Thomas, 75010 Paris |
Arrondissement | 10th (Entrepôt). Not the 18th, not Montmartre |
Téléphone | +33 (0)1 42 01 66 00 |
Nearest métro | Jacques Bonsergent (line 5), roughly 3 minutes on foot |
Also walkable | République (lines 3, 5, 8, 9, 11), about 5 minutes |
Bus | Route 56 stops at Jacques Bonsergent |
Pièces | 23, individually decorated |
Vélos | Lent to guests at no charge; a small fleet, so ask at check-in |
Petit-déjeuner | Charged separately, served in a vaulted stone cellar |
Ascenseur | Oui |
Cards accepted | Visa / CB, Eurocard / Mastercard |
Official site | hoteldunord-leparivelo.com |
Where is Hôtel du Nord – Le Pari Vélo actually located?
It is at 47 rue Albert Thomas in the 10th arrondissement, on a quiet side street between Place de la République and the Canal Saint-Martin. Earlier versions of this page placed it in Montmartre. That was wrong. Montmartre is in the 18th arrondissement, roughly 4 km north-west, and nothing about this hotel’s location, transport or neighborhood follows from that description.
The name is the source of the confusion. “Nord” here does not mean the north of Paris. The hotel sits a short walk from the Gare du Nord et Gare de l'Est rail terminals, which is the district it belongs to, and the Paris tourist board files it under “République – Gare de l’Est and Gare du Nord”.
The practical consequence: you are in a working residential quarter with canal-side bars and bakeries at the end of the street, not on a hill full of postcard sellers. If you came looking for Sacré-Coeur out of the window, book elsewhere.
Is this the Hôtel du Nord from the film?
No. Three different places in two countries answer to some version of this name, and two of them are within 200 meters of each other on the same canal. This is the single most common mix-up for anyone searching the phrase, so here is the split.
Name | What it is | Où | Can you sleep there? |
|---|---|---|---|
Hôtel du Nord – Le Pari Vélo | Working 23-room budget hotel, the subject of this page | 47 rue Albert Thomas, 75010 | Oui |
Hôtel du Nord (Brasserie) | The 1938 Marcel Carné film landmark, with Arletty’s “Atmosphère!” line. Opened as a real travelers’ hotel in 1912, closed 1980, saved from demolition and now a brasserie | 102 quai de Jemmapes, 75010 | No, restaurant only |
Café du Nord | A music venue in San Francisco. It draws heavy search volume and has nothing to do with Paris | San Francisco, USA | Non |
The happy accident is that the brasserie is about a three-minute walk from the hotel. You can stay at one and have dinner at the other on the same evening.
What are the rooms like?
There are 23 rooms, each decorated to its own scheme rather than to a single house template, which is why guest photographs of the place look inconsistent. Expect a small, plainly furnished room in a converted older building with a lift. This is a one-star-to-two-star price bracket in central Paris, and the trade for the location is space.
Room-level specifics vary enough between rooms that we will not publish a blanket claim about bed sizes, kitchenettes or bathroom configuration. A previous version of this page did, and there is no operator source supporting it. Confirm the exact room type on the booking page or by phone before you pay, particularly if you need a bath rather than a shower, or a twin rather than a double.
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How do the free bicycles work?
The hotel lends bicycles to guests at no charge, which is what the “Le Pari Vélo” half of the name refers to. The fleet is small, on the order of ten machines against 23 rooms, so availability is first-come rather than guaranteed, and guest accounts indicate they are lent to adults. Ask at check-in on the day you arrive rather than assuming a bike will be free on the morning you want one.
The location earns the bicycle. The Canal Saint-Martin towpath starts at the end of the street and runs north to the Bassin de la Villette with no significant climb, and the 10th is flat. If the hotel’s bikes are out, the city’s Vélib’ share scheme has docking stations throughout the district.
On a bike you can explore a genuinely wide slice of the city from this square kilometre: the canal north to La Villette, the Marais and its shops south-east, and the Grands Boulevards west. That is the practical case for this address. It is a small, unique hotel that gives you a flat, quiet base to enjoy the north-eastern quarters from, and a way to relax on the towpath at the end of a day of walking. For anything beyond about 3 km, the map still says take the métro.
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Is breakfast included?
No. Breakfast is charged on top of the room rate. It is a continental spread of bread, des croissants, pastries and house preserves — served in a vaulted stone cellar beneath the hotel, which is the detail guests mention most often.
Published guest reports over the last several years put the charge in the single-figure euro band, but the figures they quote differ by year, so treat any number you read online as indicative and confirm the current price when you book. Given that a full bakery counter sits about 100 meters away, the calculation is not obvious either way.
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How do you get there from the airport?
Charles de Gaulle is roughly 24 km from the hotel and takes 30 to 45 minutes by any method. An earlier version of this page said the airport was “just a few minutes” away, which is wrong by an order of magnitude and would cost you a flight if you planned around it.
One 2026 change matters more than the rest: the Roissybus coach to Opéra was permanently withdrawn on 1 March 2026 after 34 years. Guidebooks and older blog posts still recommend it. It does not exist.
Route from CDG | How it works | Coût | Remarques |
|---|---|---|---|
RER B + métro | RER B to Gare du Nord, then métro line 5 south to Jacques Bonsergent | €14 airport single | Usually the fastest public option; one change |
RER B + walk | RER B to Gare du Nord, then walk | €14 airport single | Around 20 minutes on foot; fine without heavy bags |
Taxi | Regulated flat fare from the rank | €56 to the Right Bank | The hotel is Right Bank. Fixed price includes luggage and up to four passengers, any hour |
Roissybus | — | — | Withdrawn 1 March 2026. Do not plan around it |
Getting around once you are there
Jacques Bonsergent is the closest station, about three minutes away on line 5. République is five minutes away and is the more useful of the two: it carries lines 3, 5, 8, 9 and 11, so almost anywhere in central Paris is one change or none. Bus route 56 also stops at Jacques Bonsergent.
What is genuinely walkable from the hotel?
The canal, the two big rail terminals and a good stretch of the 10th are on foot. The Louvre, Notre-Dame and the Palais Garnier are not, whatever an earlier version of this page implied by listing them under “nearby”. They are métro rides, and the honest distances are below.
Place | Approx. distance | Realistic on foot? |
|---|---|---|
Canal Saint-Martin towpath | ~250 m | Yes, about 3 minutes |
Place de la République | ~350 m | Yes, about 5 minutes |
Jardin Villemin – Mahsa Jîna Amini | ~450 m | Yes, about 6 minutes |
Gare de l'Est | ~800 m | Yes, about 10 minutes |
Musée des Arts et Métiers | ~850 m | Yes, about 11 minutes |
Gare du Nord | ~1.3 km | Yes, about 17 minutes |
Palais Garnier | ~2.4 km | No, take the métro |
Notre Dame | ~2.1 km | Borderline; about 30 minutes |
Persienne | ~2.1 km | Borderline; about 30 minutes |
Le Marais | ~1.5 km | Yes, about 20 minutes |
Montmartre / Sacré-Coeur | ~4 km | Non |
tour Eiffel | ~5.5 km | No, take the métro |
Canal Saint-Martin
Le Canal Saint-Martin is the reason to book this street rather than another cheap room near a station. Iron footbridges, plane trees and a run of bars and bakeries along quai de Jemmapes and quai de Valmy. The arched des ponts here are the canal’s own; the Pont des Arts, which an earlier version of this page attached to the canal, is a Seine footbridge more than 2 km away.
Musée des Arts et Métiers
celui de la France science and industry museum sits at 60 rue Réaumur in the 3rd, about eleven minutes’ walk. It was founded in 1794 and holds roughly 80,000 objects across seven collections (scientific instruments, materials, construction, communication, mechanics, energy and transport) inside the former priory of Saint-Martin-des-Champs. Open Tuesday to Sunday 10:00 to 18:00, Friday until 21:00, closed Mondays.
Jardin Villemin – Mahsa Jîna Amini
The nearest real green space, laid out in 1977 on the grounds of the former Villemin military hospital. It is named for Jean-Antoine Villemin (1827-1892), the army doctor who demonstrated in 1865 that tuberculosis is transmissible. He was not, as this page previously stated, a poet called Jacques Villemin. In June 2023 the Council of Paris added the name of Mahsa Jîna Amini, so signage and maps now read Jardin Villemin – Mahsa Jîna Amini. It also contains Le Poireau Agile, the first shared community garden in Paris.
The Louvre and the Palais Garnier
Both are métro rides, not walks. The Persienne is about 2.1 km away and closes on Tuesdays; from République take line 5 or 8 with one change. The Palais Garnier, built between 1861 and 1875, is about 2.4 km west. If you want both plus the rest in one day, a sightseeing tour covers more ground than the métro will.
Voir connexe: Glass Pyramid at the Louvre: History & About
Notre Dame
Notre Dame is about 2.1 km south on the Île de la Cité, which is roughly half an hour on foot or fifteen minutes by métro. Walkable if you make an afternoon of it along the canal and the Seine; not a stroll before breakfast.
Where can you eat within a few minutes’ walk?
Three places worth knowing, all inside a ten-minute radius. The descriptions below replace three that were wrong about what these businesses actually are.
Place | What it is | Adresse | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|---|
Palais Le Gourbi | Retro French bistro-brasserie, Formica and Skai fittings | 48 rue Albert Thomas, 75010 | Closed Mondays; opening pattern varies, call ahead |
Assanabel | Lebanese mezze house, trading since 1988 | 6 rue Pierre Chausson, 75010 (République branch) | Other branches are in the 6th and 14th — check which one you booked |
Du Pain et des Idées | Boulangerie, not a restaurant. No table service | 34 rue Yves Toudic, 75010 | Closed Saturday and Sunday. Mon-Fri 06:45-20:00 |
Palais Le Gourbi
Palais Le Gourbi is directly opposite the hotel at number 48, which is the single most useful thing to know about it and the thing this page previously left out. It is a traditional French bistro-brasserie with a deliberately retro fit-out in Formica and Skai, sitting between the canal and République. It closes on Mondays and its published hours differ between listings, so phone before you walk over.
Assanabel
Assanabel est un Lebanese restaurant, not a French one. This page previously described it as serving onion soup, steak frites and crème brûlée; it serves mezze, hot and cold, and has done since 1988. The branch near this hotel is at 6 rue Pierre Chausson, about five minutes away. Two others trade in Saint-Germain-des-Prés and the 14th, so confirm the address when you reserve.
Du Pain et des Idées
A bakery, about 100 meters from the hotel door, behind a painted nineteenth-century shopfront at 34 rue Yves Toudic. Baker Christophe Vasseur was named Paris’s best by Gault & Millau in 2008. The pain des amis, the orange-blossom brioche and the pistachio-and-chocolate escargot are what people queue for.
The critical detail, and the one that ruins weekend mornings: it is closed Saturday and Sunday. Opening hours are Monday to Friday, 06:45 to 20:00. This page previously called it a restaurant serving breakfast, lunch and dinner with a full coffee bar. It is a counter. You buy bread and leave.
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How is it reviewed, and what does it cost?
This is a small independent hotel in Paris, so the review picture is thinner than for a chain, and it is worth reading the sources rather than a single aggregate number.
TripExpert, which rolls up guidebook coverage rather than guest ratings, publishes a score of 71 for this hotel drawn from write-ups in Rough Guide, Lonely Planet and BlackBook, and quotes the line “stuffed with flea market finds, the place is comfy and completely original”. That is a fair summary of what the photos on booking sites show: a comfortable, classic, slightly eccentric small hotel that has decorated each room to its own taste rather than to a standard.
On price, we deliberately publish no nightly rate. Rates for a 23-room independent hotel move with the season, the day of the week and the trade-show calendar at the nearby exhibition centres, and any figure quoted in an article stops being true within weeks. Check a booking site for your dates, then check the hotel’s own site, which sometimes prices differently. What is stable is the bracket: this is the budget end of central Paris, not a design hotel, and the charm is the room decoration and the location rather than the fittings.
Parking, pets, a pool: what the listings actually say
These four questions come up on every booking site, and for this hotel most of them have no published answer. Here is what the sources confirm and what they do not.
Question | What the sources say |
|---|---|
Is there a lift? | Yes. It is the one facility the Paris tourist office lists explicitly |
Is there a pool? | No pool appears in any listing. Assume not |
Is there parking? | No on-site parking is published. Street parking in the 10th is metered and scarce; a public underground car park is the realistic option |
Are pets allowed? | Not published in the sources we checked. Ask before booking rather than arriving with a dog |
Is there a restaurant or bar? | No. Breakfast only, in the cellar |
If you want the contact details or opening hours of the other Hôtel du Nord, the brasserie on quai de Jemmapes keeps its own site at hoteldunord.org, where it publishes its carte, its live jazz programme and its reservation page. Do not phone the hotel about a table there, or the brasserie about a room.
Five mistakes to avoid at this hotel
- Booking it because you wanted Montmartre. It is 4 km from Sacré-Coeur, in a different arrondissement.
- Turning up at 102 quai de Jemmapes with a suitcase. That Hôtel du Nord is a brasserie and has not taken guests since 1980.
- Planning a Saturday-morning bakery run to Du Pain et des Idées. Closed at weekends.
- Assuming a bicycle will be waiting. Roughly ten bikes serve 23 rooms, on a first-come basis.
- Budgeting a Roissybus ticket. The service ended on 1 March 2026; use RER B or the €56 flat-fare taxi.
Who should book it, and who should not
Book it if | Book elsewhere if |
|---|---|
You want a central, low-cost base and will use the métro | You need space, or a hotel with a restaurant and room service |
You intend to cycle the canal and the flat northern quarters | You want to walk to the Louvre and Notre-Dame from the door |
You are arriving or leaving by train from Gare du Nord or Gare de l’Est | You are set on Montmartre or the Left Bank |
Individually decorated rooms appeal more than a chain standard | You need a guaranteed room configuration booked sight-unseen |
What we corrected on this page
This review was rebuilt in August 2026. The following claims were removed because they were wrong, not because they were stale:
- “It is located in Montmartre and the Northern District of Paris”. The hotel is at 47 rue Albert Thomas in the 10th arrondissement.
- “Charles De Gaulle Airport is just a few minutes from the hotel”. It is about 24 km and 30 to 45 minutes.
- “When our guests arrive, we give them a key”. This site is not the hotel and does not run its front desk. Removed.
- Jardin Villemin “named after the poet Jacques Villemin”. It is named for Jean-Antoine Villemin, an army physician.
- Du Pain et des Idées described as a restaurant serving three meals a day. It is a bakery, closed at weekends.
- Assanabel described as French, serving onion soup and steak frites. It is Lebanese.
- The Pont des Arts listed among the Canal Saint-Martin’s bridges. It crosses the Seine.
- Musée des Arts et Métiers “more than 100,000 objects” on “Rue des Arts et Métiers”. The real figures are about 80,000 objects, at 60 rue Réaumur.
- Blanket room claims about queen beds, kitchenettes and private bathrooms. Unsupported by any operator source, so removed rather than guessed at.
- The Louvre, Palais Garnier and Notre-Dame presented as “nearby”. Replaced with measured distances.
Frequently asked questions
Where is Hotel du Nord – Le Pari Velo located?
At 47 rue Albert Thomas in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, between Place de la Republique and the Canal Saint-Martin. It is not in Montmartre.
Is this the Hotel du Nord from the Marcel Carne film?
No. The film landmark is at 102 quai de Jemmapes, about 200 meters away. It opened as a hotel in 1912, closed in 1980, and is now a brasserie. You cannot stay there.
Are the bicycles really free?
Yes, the hotel lends bicycles to guests at no charge. The fleet is small, roughly ten bikes for 23 rooms, so availability is first-come. Ask at check-in.
Is breakfast included in the room rate?
No. Breakfast is charged separately and served in a vaulted stone cellar. Confirm the current price when you book, and note that a well-known bakery sits about 100 meters away.
What is the nearest metro station?
Jacques Bonsergent on line 5, about three minutes on foot. Republique, about five minutes away, carries lines 3, 5, 8, 9 and 11.
How far is the hotel from Charles de Gaulle airport?
About 24 km, or 30 to 45 minutes. Take RER B to Gare du Nord then line 5, or a regulated flat-fare taxi at 56 euros to the Right Bank. The Roissybus coach was withdrawn on 1 March 2026.
Can you walk to the Louvre from the hotel?
It is about 2.1 km, roughly 30 minutes on foot. Walkable as an outing, but most guests take the metro from Republique.
Does the hotel have a lift and a restaurant?
It has a lift. There is no on-site restaurant, but Le Gourbi Palace is directly opposite at 48 rue Albert Thomas and closes on Mondays.
Sources and method
Address, telephone number, transport connections, room count and services were taken from the Paris Convention and Visitors Bureau listing and the hotel’s own website. Restaurant categories, addresses and opening hours came from each business’s own site and from the Paris tourist and directory listings. Airport fares and the Roissybus withdrawal were confirmed against two independent transport sources. Museum hours, collection size and address came from the Musée des Arts et Métiers. Jardin Villemin’s naming and 2023 renaming came from the City of Paris.
Where a figure could not be confirmed from a primary source (the current breakfast charge, exact room configurations, the precise number of bicycles) this page says so rather than filling the gap. Distances are rounded and measured from 47 rue Albert Thomas.
Last updated 14 August 2026. This revision corrected the hotel’s arrondissement, the airport distance, two restaurant categories, the naming of Jardin Villemin, the Canal Saint-Martin bridge reference and the museum’s collection figures, and added the address, phone number, transport table and walking distances the page had never carried. Prices, hours and transport arrangements change; check with each business before you travel.
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