Where to actually take her in Paris

Paris is walkable, and a well-built evening fits into two arrondissements. The 1st and the 8th for the hotels and the bars that set the tone, the 11th and the 2nd for the ones where nobody looks up. What you want to avoid: the tourist terraces around the Opéra and any establishment recommended to you by a stranger in the street.

Hotels that do not make it awkward

The single most common way an evening goes wrong in Paris is the front desk. Some houses charge a visitor fee, some ask for her passport, some simply do not allow a second person in the room after midnight. The houses below are the ones worth booking in this city - and because policies change with the season and the manager, the one question worth asking at reservation is whether a registered guest may come up to the room.

• Hôtel Costes 1erhotel bar - she can arrive without crossing a lobby · discreet entrance, front desk asks nothing · open late
• Brach Paris 16eproper suites, not a box with a bed · quiet enough to talk · a view worth the first ten minutes
• Hôtel Bachaumont 2ewalkable to everything · hotel bar - she can arrive without crossing a lobby · no dress code drama
• Le Pigalle 9eno dress code drama · staffed 24h, late check-in is normal · walkable to everything

Bars for the first drink

Forty minutes in a bar before anything else is not a formality - it is how two adults find out whether the evening is worth having. Pick somewhere you can hear each other.

• Bar Hemingway Ritz, 1erhotel bar - she can arrive without crossing a lobby · quiet enough to talk · dress properly or you will feel it
• Danico 2eserious cocktails, no queue at the bar · quiet enough to talk · discreet entrance, front desk asks nothing
• Little Red Door 3eserious cocktails, no queue at the bar · open late · no dress code drama
• Le Syndicat 10eserious cocktails, no queue at the bar · busy and loud after midnight · open late

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The areas, honestly

Every city has a district everyone names and a district where things actually happen. In Paris they are not always the same place.

• Pigalle 9e/18ethe nightlife spine of the city · tourist-priced, watch the bill · busy and loud after midnight
• Rue Saint-Denis 2estreet scene, not a venue · tourist-priced, watch the bill
• Le Marais 3e/4ethe nightlife spine of the city · walkable to everything · no dress code drama
• Bois de Boulogne 16estreet scene, not a venue · busy and loud after midnight

Three things that cost nothing

• Be where you said you would be, at the time you said it. Punctuality reads as respect, and it is the cheapest respect there is.
• Settle the practical part at the start, once, and never bring it up again.
• Book the room in your own name and go up first. Never ask her to check in for you.

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