TRAVELNine Paris Hostels That Make Budget Travel Worth the Trip5 min read

The 10th Has Private Terraces Now

The hostel on Canal St. Martin—deep in the 10th Arrondissement—is hard to beat on raw amenities. Private rooms come with their own terraces. The common areas include a rooftop bar and an indoor lounge that doesn’t feel like an airport waiting room. Female-only dorms are available. Bunk beds are basic (no curtains, which matters if you’re a light sleeper), but the mattresses hold up and the lockers are solid. Dorms are clean and spacious enough to actually move around in.

Breakfast isn’t folded into the price, but the Canal St. Martin neighborhood has cheap morning options within a five-minute walk in every direction.

Gare du Nord, Minus the Chaos

The second St. Christopher’s opened in 2013 near Gare du Nord, which puts you close to both the Eurostar terminal and the main airport connections. The bar runs live music on weekends and the crowd it draws is reliably good. The 7-euro breakfast reappears here. Mattresses are thin—same story as the canal location—but curtains give you enough darkness to sleep through a noisy Saturday night.

One tip worth keeping: request a street-facing room. The interior courtyard gets loud once the downstairs bar hits full volume, and the walls don’t help much.