33 min
50 min
1 · 2 · 3 · 5 · 8 · 9 · 11
77.8 / km²
5
18
6,916
−14% vs city
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Staying in Bastille & Oberkampf (11th)
The 11th was factories and workers' housing, and nobody ever built it a monument. That is the whole trade: there is nothing here on a sightseeing list, and consequently the room rates are about a third under the Marais twenty minutes' walk away, and the restaurants are priced for people who live here.
What it does have is the highest concentration of places to eat and drink in the city, in two clusters - rue de Lappe and rue de la Roquette off the Bastille, and rue Oberkampf and rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud in the north. Republique and Bastille are both on the boundary, so metro 1, 5, 8, 9 and 11 are all a short walk, and the district is dense enough that everything inside it is walkable.
Book here on a second visit, or on a first visit if you would rather eat well than tick off the Louvre in the first 48 hours. Book a courtyard-facing room: at 41,000 residents per square kilometre this is the most crowded urban district in Europe, and the bar streets do not go quiet before 02:00 at weekends.
What works
- The best density of restaurants and bars in Paris, at local prices
- Rates run about a third under the Marais, a twenty-minute walk away
- Republique and Bastille put metro 1, 5, 8, 9 and 11 on the boundary
- Big enough hotel stock that something is available on short notice
What does not
- Nothing here is on a first-time sightseeing list, so sightseeing is a commute
- Thirty-three minutes on foot to Notre-Dame
- Rue Oberkampf and rue de Lappe are loud until 02:00 from Thursday on
- Europe's densest district, so cheap rooms face light wells, not streets
There was never an intent to build monuments other than local churches. Thus, there are few special places to see or unusual things to do.