The neighborhood
Living one block from the Eiffel Tower
The three apartments — Chablis, Rully and Brouilly — sit between Avenue de la Bourdonnais and the Champ de Mars, in the 7th arrondissement on the Left Bank. It is the closest you can stay to the Eiffel Tower while still being in a residential street: bakeries, a supermarket, a pharmacy and cafés on the block, the tower at the end of it. Almost everything visitors come to Paris for is within a 25-minute walk.
On foot from the front door
- Eiffel Tower
- 2–5 minutes
- Champ de Mars gardens
- 2 minutes
- The Seine, Port de la Bourdonnais
- 5 minutes
- Rue Cler market street
- 8 minutes
- Quai Branly Museum
- 8 minutes
- Trocadéro and its view of the tower
- 15 minutes
- Les Invalides and Napoleon’s Tomb
- 15 minutes
- Rodin Museum
- 20 minutes
- Musée d’Orsay
- 25 minutes
Walking times are measured from Avenue de la Bourdonnais and are approximate.
Getting around, and getting here
- Metro École Militaire
- Line 8, about 7 minutes on foot
- Metro Bir-Hakeim
- Line 6, about 12 minutes on foot
- Metro Alma-Marceau
- Line 9, about 10 minutes across the Pont de l’Alma
- RER C, Champ de Mars–Tour Eiffel
- About 8 minutes on foot
- Gare Montparnasse
- About 15 minutes by metro
- Orly airport
- About 40 minutes
- Charles de Gaulle airport
- About 55 minutes
Buses run along Avenue de la Bourdonnais and the Quai Branly, the Batobus and the river cruises leave from Port de la Bourdonnais five minutes away, and rides hailed on an app arrive in about two minutes at any hour.
What is on the street
Rue Cler, eight minutes away, is the neighborhood market street: greengrocers, a cheesemonger, a butcher, a fishmonger and cafés along a pedestrian stretch. Rue Saint-Dominique, closer still, is the restaurant street, from bistros to the bakery queues on Sunday morning. A supermarket, a pharmacy and several bakeries are within two minutes of all three apartments — which matters more than it sounds when you are staying for a month with a family.
The Champ de Mars is the local park: it has playgrounds, a carousel and enough lawn for children to spend an afternoon on, with the tower directly above.
Questions about the neighborhood
- Is the Eiffel Tower neighborhood a good place to stay in Paris?
- It is a residential part of the 7th arrondissement rather than a tourist strip. The blocks between Avenue de la Bourdonnais and Rue Saint-Dominique have bakeries, cafés, a supermarket and a pharmacy used by the people who live there, and the Champ de Mars is the local park. You are a few minutes from the tower without living inside the crowd around it.
- Is it quiet at night?
- Yes. The streets are residential and the neighborhood empties once the tower closes. Guests staying at Rully, which is the closest to the busier stretch, regularly note that the apartment is quiet despite the lively street. All three apartments have blackout blinds or shutters.
- Can you see the Eiffel Tower sparkle from the apartments?
- From Chablis, yes: it faces the tower directly from the living room, and the hourly sparkle after dark is visible from the sofa. From Brouilly and Rully you see the tower from the street, a few steps from the front door.
- Do you need the metro to get around from here?
- Less than you would expect. The Eiffel Tower, the Champ de Mars, the Seine, Les Invalides, the Quai Branly and Rodin museums and Trocadéro are all within a 20-minute walk. École Militaire on line 8 is about seven minutes away for everything else.
The three apartments in this neighborhood
Chablis for the view, Rully for a family staying a week, and Brouilly for a stay of one to ten months. Compare the three.