What a great great great Location! We came from Vancouver with our 2 "tweens" kids. This is the area you want to be if you love to be in the fun / urban / boutique / streetart/ great shopping /great food area of Paris and still be only a few minutes away/walking distance from the great museums, places like Notre Dame/Louvre/Pompidou. You can walk everywhere from here. Lots of life at night. Tons of great food in the area, we found everything we needed from French restaurants and creperies, to amazing patisseries, and even a great offbeat small pub hidden away (run by a bunch of nice folks from Washington DC and Vancouver BC ) only 1 block away !