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Article: '87 prices in Paris: A room for $12.50 and a $14 breakfast
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 7, 1987
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My good friend, Steve, and his companion are paying less for
their Paris hotel room than a single breakfast cost me last month at
the Crillon, one of the city's deluxe properties.
We chuckled over that incongruity at dinner 10 nights ago in the
French capital. And it occurred to me later that the contrast makes
a splendid case in point for the remarkably wide range of financial
choices still available to the American traveler in Europe, even in
this year of the feeble dollar.
A history professor, Steve is staying for three weeks at the
one-star Hotel de Medicis near the Luxembourg Gardens on the Left
Bank, paying a mere 75 francs (about $12.50) a night for two persons.
The room is ...