Hôtel Esprit Saint Germain

"If you’ve been mulling over buying a second home in Paris, but have a fear of commitment, the Hôtel Esprit Saint Germain might offer the perfect solution: The 28-room boutique hotel, over on the city’s Left Bank, feels more like a (very chic) home than a hotel, at once intimate, elegant, and accommodating—minus the property taxes. Rooms are sleek and modern, with pops of mauve, teal, and magenta, and glossy, glass-topped coffee tables and desks; others are a little more romantic, with thick, dark-stained wooden beams cutting across the ceiling, and wall-to-wall leopard-print carpeting. But, in true Parisian fashion, it’s always just enough, and never too much." - Betsy Blumenthal