Where to stay · Social hostel · € · 19e · La Villette & Buttes-Chaumont
St Christopher's Inn Paris - Canal
The waterfront terrace is the reason to choose this one over its Gare du Nord sibling: it sits on the Canal de l'Ourcq in the 19th, with a bar that runs late and a chill-out room for the mornings after.
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Walk the canal south toward the Bassin de la Villette for the open-air bars and the MK2 cinema with a boat shuttle.
Getting there
- Laumière5280 m · 5 min walk
- Ourcq5300 m · 6 min walk
- Crimée7620 m · 12 min walk
Around the corner
Parc des Buttes Chaumont · 600 m away
The Parc des Buttes Chaumont is a public park situated in northeastern Paris, France, in the 19th arrondissement. Occupying 24.7 hectares, it is the fifth-largest park in Paris, after the Bois de Vincennes, Bois de Boulogne, Parc de la Villette and Tuileries Garden.
Wikipedia ↗Walks that pass nearby
- Sundays Onlystop 5 of 6 · 600 m
Parc des Buttes-Chaumont
25 hectares in the 19th, opened 1867 — Haussmann's most ambitious park. Built on the site of an abandoned gypsum quarry, with cliffs, a lake, an iron suspension bridge, and a Roman-temple folly on a 50 m island. Sunday-morning Parisian families everywhere.
Enter at Buttes-Chaumont métro (line 7B). Walk clockwise around the lake to the suspension bridge first, then up to the temple folly for the best view of Sacré-Cœur. Rosa Bonheur — a small open-air bar at the southern end of the park — is the post-walk drink.
Within a few minutes' walk
The district · 19e
La Villette & Buttes-Chaumont — Parks and canalsThe wild cliffs of Buttes-Chaumont, the science-museum-and-music campus of La Villette, the Bassin de la Villette's open-air bars, and a multicultural, working everyday Paris around them.
Best for: Park people, families and budget stays who want space and canal swims.
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