New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-05-04

an approximate notion of what its prices may be.
The head of family which had occupied an apart
mont In this hotel during the Winter, and was de-
sirous to remain, was told in answer to his inquiries
that they could not yet say what increase would be
made. On being pressed, the proprietor refused
absolutely to fix limit beyond which the price
should not be raised. The hotel, excellent as it is
appears to be best adapted 10 those TO whom ex-
pense is matter of complete indifference. The
Bristol, in the Place Vendome, is also full and
likely TO remain 1t is the Prince of w 'es' hotel
II is also the hotel which that retired and inerant
warrior General Grant hOnOred with his patronage
when in Paris last year. have heard of one or two
other cases where people who had lived for months
in their apartment had quilted it, not because the
price was raised but because an indefinite increase
was held over their heads. The Hotel Mirabeau is
not far off a house which had occasion to mention
in letter some months since, hotel where was
charged the price of seven days FOR six days Occu-
pancy; charge Insisted upon after due protest;
respecting which bad to say also that it was not IN
other points a good hotel, though well situated and
of much pretence. There is a wcl-knOwn concern
ia the Rue Castglouc, the landlord Of which pro-
poses, hear TO let his FIRST floor apartments at T25
. day double The usual rate.
You may choose generally speaking. between
hotels with a table dn5te and without; some have
not q dnng-rOom Of any kind; in which case you
must have a parior. well rs bedroom. or else take
meals entirely out OF the h0ase custom which, in
a small hotel, will not always be found pleasing to
the landlord. If you come here with your wife, and
want to live comfortably in a good hotel, in mOder-
ate way, Won viii be- likely to take what is here
called an apartment; salon or parlor the English
call it sittng-room) and one or two bedrooms
two for choice rs the French bedrooms are likely to
-.
luggage You NAV go as high as the third floor
without losing caste even among the bonanza mil
hoaairrs from the West, who rack their brains IN
-earch of devices for spending money. Among
French people story more or less counts for notn-
ing. Ii would be tedious and useless To go through
the long Isl of hotels WIKI tier prices which lies
before ne. In those which, though less expensive
fau such a, | have named above are strictly t.rst
class, and in good streets such an apartment VIII
cost thr first floor 80 to 80 the sccoud, iS
TO $40; the third G TO -, per day The tariff in
sui hotel, for instance the llote. d, Holande,
i'm the iiu' dc IN PAX would be Willingness limits;
and mention It among dozen other hotels of SINH
lar position because ! have found it in times past
very good and well kept. In all the hotels of the
quarter. the american WHO takes such an apart
meu' wilt find himself fairly comfortable, and his
expense FIR two persons averaging, if an average
cen Dee struck where tastes and habits vary so
widely, from So to $50 q day. in ordinary times,
tuo-tliIds or half that Alone and in a single room
~ q large hotel on the second or third floor, the
traveller may keep down his avcrse to 80 or -, or
lc., 70 ho s careful But | BEGAN by saying that
this letter would only Bee useful to people who did
not Gaze 10 Pu-u economy beyond tine point where
ease and comfort could be secured. 1t can hardly
be- uccr.-il, 10 add that the usual prccautIon of
tpra-iu- rooms in advance will hc more than ever