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Hotels With Family Rooms in Paris, and How Big That Room Actually Is

Twelve properties across twelve arrondissements, every room size, bed line, occupancy and refusal read off the operator's own site in September 2026. Chambre familiale is not a regulated term in France, so it can mean one room with a bunk, two rooms with a connecting door, or a quadruple with a sofa bed. The number that separates them is the square metre figure, Paris operators publish it more often than operators anywhere else on this site, and almost nobody writing about Paris repeats it.

Best for a family of four: Aparthotel Adagio Paris Centre Tour Eiffel

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By Emma18 min readPublished Rooms checked September 2026
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The painted house fronts and potted plants along Rue Cremieux, a residential lane in the 12th arrondissement of Paris
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In Brief

How big is a Paris family room really?

For rooms sold to exactly four people the published range across these twelve hotels runs from 20 square metres to 47, which is a 2.35 times difference for an identical headcount. The 20 is Hotel Terminus Lyon's Quadruple in the 12th and Hotel Saint-Louis Marais's accessible quadruple in the 4th. The 47 is the Eiffel-view one-bedroom apartment at Aparthotel Adagio Paris Centre Tour Eiffel in the 15th. The structural reason is that an aparthotel gives the parents a bedroom with a door and puts the children in the living room, while a chambre familiale puts everyone in one room. If you need a room for five or six, the field narrows to two: the Adagio two-bedroom at 75 square metres for six, and the Hotel Napoleon connecting room at 55 square metres for six, which is the only published six in this set whose beds are itemised.

Key takeaways

  • Rooms sold for four run from 20 to 47 square metres
  • One hotel refuses any extra bed and names its own architecture as the reason
  • Adagio counts every child aged 3 and over as a full occupant
  • The taxe de sejour is charged per adult only; every minor is exempt by statute

Which rooms actually fit your family

Find your party shape along the top, then read down. A tick means the hotel publishes a room that holds that group in one booking. A dash means the hotel does not publish the fact at all, which is not the same as a no, and is why the column exists.

Room configurations by family size for 12 hotels in Paris
Hotel2+12+22+32 + babyConnectingCotRollaway
Aparthotel Adagio Paris Centre Tour EiffelYesYesYesYesNoNot published. Baby kits are offered at reception on booking, subject to availabilityRefused brand-wide in writing: it is not possible to furnish apartments with additional beds, except a baby bed on request
Hotel Terminus LyonYesYesNoYesYesNot published. A cot can be set up on request for any child under 2Refused in writing with a reason: it is not possible to add an extra bed to rooms due to their architecture
Hotel Napoleon ParisYesYesYesNot publishedYesNot published. Two services URLs returned 404Not published. The only extra places are built in, a convertible sofa and a two-seater sofa bed
Citadines Les Halles ParisYesYesNoYesNoNot published. One cot per accommodation is offered and the sentence implies inclusion without saying soNot published
Hotel des 2 ContinentsYesYesNoYesYesNot published. A cot, changing mat, bottle warmer and high chair are all listed in the servicesNot published
Hotel Saint-Louis MaraisYesYesNoNot publishedNoNot published, in a hotel that sells rooms for fourNot published. The third and fourth places are the fitted double sofa bed
Mama Shelter Paris EastYesYesNoNoYesRefused on the family room. The published rider on the XXL Mama Family is no baby crib, no extra bedRefused in every published category. No extra bed is sold anywhere in the hotel
Source HotelYesYesNot publishedYesYesNot published. A cot appears in the on-request options list with no charge attachedNot published, and this is the gap that matters here
Hotel Imperial ParisYesYesNoYesNoNot published. A cot, high chair, changing mat and bottle warmer are available on requestNot published
Aparthotel Adagio Paris MontmartreYesYesNoYesNoNot published. Baby kits on request, subject to availabilityRefused brand-wide in writing
25hours Hotel Terminus NordNot publishedNot publishedNoNot publishedNot publishedNot published. The FAQ page where it would sit returned 403Available and charged, and the operator never says what the charge is
ibis Styles Paris Alesia MontparnasseNoNoNoNot publishedNot publishedNot publishedNot published

Ten of the twelve publish square metres for at least one family-capable room and ten publish a maximum occupancy, which is a far better rate than any other city checked on this site. The two that fail both are the ibis Styles in the 14th, where no family-capable room exists at all, and 25hours Terminus Nord, whose family category is the only one on its page carrying neither figure. Two properties publish an occupancy their own beds do not support: the Hotel Imperial's triple gives two beds for three people, and Source Hotel's family suite is sold for four to five with beds for four and no fifth bed named anywhere. Four arrondissements are missing from this page and the reason is the same in each case: Familia in the 5th, Les Jardins du Marais in the 11th, La Manufacture in the 13th and Hotel Crimee in the 19th publish no room figures at all, and hotelcrimee.com is now a parked domain offering itself for sale.

These are family facts, and family facts go stale. This table is set for re-verification in March 2027.

Which one fits how your family travels

Find the row that sounds like your trip. Every pick below names the family it is wrong for, so you can book on fit rather than on rank.

If you areBookWhy
A family of fiveAparthotel Adagio Paris Centre Tour EiffelIts 75 square metre two-bedroom publishes six, with the beds itemised. On published figures almost nothing else central takes five.
A family of six who want the beds namedHotel Napoleon ParisThe 55 square metre connecting room is the only published six here with a full bed line: two rooms, two bathrooms, plus a two-seater sofa bed.
Four people wanting two bathrooms cheaplyHotel Terminus LyonThe 30 square metre connecting pair has two bathrooms and sits on Gare de Lyon. Read the extra-bed refusal first if there is any chance of a fifth.
Travelling with a babyHotel des 2 Continents or Citadines Les HallesBoth publish baby equipment on their own sites. Avoid Mama Shelter Paris East, where the family room states no baby crib.
In Paris in August with childrenAnywhere but Adagio Paris MontmartreIt publishes in writing that it has no air conditioning, and it is a hillside building in the 18th.
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What the bands mean

The taxe de sejour is the charge families forget, and Paris takes it in four layers: the municipal tariff, a 10 per cent departmental addition, 15 per cent for the Societe des Grands Projets and 200 per cent for Ile-de-France Mobilites. In force from 1 January 2026 the totals are 15.93 euros a night for a palace, 11.70 for a five-star, 8.45 for a four-star, 5.53 for a three-star and 3.25 for a one- or two-star. The critical word is per ADULT: the levy is charged par personne majeure, and every minor is exempt by national statute under Article L2333-31 of the Code general des collectivites territoriales. So a family of two adults and three children pays the same tax as a couple. Breakfast is the other real number and it is charged almost everywhere: 21 euros a head at Mama Shelter Paris East, 17 at the Hotel des 2 Continents with children under 12 at 9, 15 at Hotel Terminus Lyon with a child rate of 8 and no age attached to it, 15 at Hotel Saint-Louis Marais with under-12s free, and 14 at the Hotel Imperial.

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Two- and three-star hotels and the cheaper aparthotels
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Three- and four-star hotels and central aparthotels
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Four-star design hotels
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Five-star hotels and palace-adjacent suites

The 12 hotels, and the room to ask for at each

Walking times are to The metro line the operator itself names. Every metro line and station named on this page is the one the operator itself names on its own site. No walking time and no distance has been computed here, and where an operator names no station at all that absence is stated rather than filled in from a map.

  • 15th, rue du Theatre

    Aparthotel Adagio Paris Centre Tour Eiffel

    €€
    Best for four

    The only property here that publishes an occupancy above four with the beds itemised to match, and the one that answers the family-of-five question in Paris.

    Room to book
    The 75 square metre two-bedroom apartment for six if there are five of you, because the counting rule closes the four-person flats
    Children stay free
    Under 3 only, and the wording matters: all children aged three and above are considered to be individual occupants
    Breakfast for children
    Free for under-16s at this property. The brand publishes a second band of under-12 at nine named exception aparthotels
    Walk to The metro line the operator itself names
    Metro 6 and 10 at Charles Michels, as the operator names it to The metro line the operator itself names
    Right for
    A family of five, who have almost nowhere else to go in central Paris on published figures.
    Wrong for
    Anyone hoping to squeeze a third child into a four-person flat, because the terms forbid it.
    The catch
    The under-three counting rule is published in the terms and conditions rather than on the apartment pages, so a family of five with no child under three cannot book either four-person apartment however big 47 square metres looks, and the only legal option jumps straight to the 75 square metre two-bedroom. Additional beds are refused across the whole brand.
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  • 12th, Boulevard Diderot at Gare de Lyon

    Hotel Terminus Lyon

    €
    Best value

    Sells the full French set side by side, quadruple, family room and connecting rooms, and publishes two separate refusals with reasons attached, which no other operator here does.

    Room to book
    The 30 square metre connecting pair with two bathrooms, rather than the 20 square metre quadruple
    Children stay free
    Not published
    Breakfast for children
    8 euros, with no age band attached to it anywhere on the site
    Walk to The metro line the operator itself names
    Gare de Lyon on metro lines 1 and 14 and RER A, as the operator names it to The metro line the operator itself names
    Right for
    A family of four who want two bathrooms and a station on the doorstep.
    Wrong for
    A family of five. There is no fifth place to buy anywhere in the building.
    The catch
    The architecture refusal cuts both ways. Because no extra bed can be added to any room and the hotel separately publishes that for security reasons a double room cannot accommodate three people, a family of five has no route here at all: the largest published occupancy in the building is four. The Quadruple is also 20 square metres for four, the tightest published four on this page.
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  • 8th, avenue de Friedland

    Hotel Napoleon Paris

    €€€€

    Publishes six-person occupancy on four separate products and itemises the beds for exactly one of them, which happens to be the best-documented family room in this set.

    Room to book
    The 55 square metre Connecting Room, the only published six here with a full bed line
    Children stay free
    Not published
    Breakfast for children
    Not published
    Walk to The metro line the operator itself names
    Avenue de Friedland, near the Arc de Triomphe, as the operator gives its address to The metro line the operator itself names
    Right for
    A family of five or six who want the beds named before they book.
    Wrong for
    A family with a baby, because no cot policy is published at all.
    The catch
    It publishes six-person occupancy on four products and a bed line for one, so a family booking the 90 square metre Imperiale Suite for six is told about the terrace view and not where anyone sleeps. Air conditioning and a lift are not published on any page reached, which for a five-star is an odd absence.
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  • 1st, rue des Innocents

    Citadines Les Halles Paris

    €€

    An aparthotel that names its own metro lines and walking times, which almost no Paris hotel does, with a one-bedroom apartment at 34 square metres for four.

    Room to book
    The one-bedroom apartment for three at 32 square metres, where the arithmetic closes without an assumption
    Children stay free
    Under 2
    Breakfast for children
    Not published. Breakfast is listed as a charged amenity with no figure anywhere
    Walk to The metro line the operator itself names
    Chatelet on lines 1, 4, 7, 11 and 14 at about 3 minutes, and Les Halles on line 4 at about 2, both the operator's own figures to The metro line the operator itself names
    Right for
    A family of three who want a kitchen and Chatelet on the doorstep.
    Wrong for
    A family of four who need both children in real beds.
    The catch
    The 34 square metre four-person apartment sells its third and fourth places as a single sofa bed whose dimensions are never published, so two children share one convertible in the living room. The operator's own two pages also disagree on how large its apartments get, and both readings are recorded rather than reconciled.
    Check family rooms and dates at Citadines Les Halles ParisOpens the live rate for your dates

  • 6th, rue Jacob, Saint-Germain-des-Pres

    Hotel des 2 Continents

    €€

    The cleanest published example in Paris of the difference between a chambre familiale and chambres communicantes, labelled separately on the operator's own room table.

    Room to book
    The Communicantes at 29 square metres for four, where the beds are published and the arithmetic closes
    Children stay free
    Not published. The only child age band on the site governs breakfast
    Breakfast for children
    9 euros for children under 12, against 17 for an adult
    Walk to The metro line the operator itself names
    Line 4 at Odeon or Saint-Germain and line 10 at Mabillon or Odeon, as the operator names them to The metro line the operator itself names
    Right for
    A family of four in Saint-Germain who want two rooms rather than one.
    Wrong for
    A family booking the Familiale, because it carries an occupancy of four and no bed line at all.
    The catch
    The two rooms a family would naturally book, the Familiale at 24 square metres and the Suite at 25, are the only two on the operator's table carrying an occupancy of four with no beds published, so you are buying four heads of occupancy without knowing what they sleep on. The hotel also publishes that it is not accessible to guests with reduced mobility. Its two pages disagree on whether the air conditioning runs all year or in summer only, and both readings are recorded here rather than averaged.
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  • 4th, rue Charles V

    Hotel Saint-Louis Marais

    €€

    Two quadruples in a twelve-room Marais building, and one of the few operators anywhere here that publishes its sofa bed as a double rather than leaving it ambiguous.

    Room to book
    The top-floor quadruple at 24 to 25 square metres rather than the 20 to 21 on the first floor
    Children stay free
    Not published
    Breakfast for children
    Free for under-12s, against 15 euros for an adult
    Walk to The metro line the operator itself names
    Rue Charles V in the Marais, as the operator gives its address; it names no station to The metro line the operator itself names
    Right for
    A family of four who want the Marais and can accept two of them on a sofa bed.
    Wrong for
    Anyone who needs a lift, because none is published.
    The catch
    The cheaper quadruple is 20 to 21 square metres for four people with two of them on a sofa bed, which is the size of a single room elsewhere. Neither air conditioning nor a lift is published anywhere, while the hotel sells a top-floor quadruple, and with twelve rooms in total there is no fallback if it is taken.
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  • 20th, rue de Bagnolet

    Mama Shelter Paris East

    €€€

    The only operator here that publishes a cot and extra-bed line on every single room category, which is admirable until you read what it says on the family one.

    Room to book
    The XXL Mama Family, two connected bedrooms with two queen beds for four
    Children stay free
    Not published. The only published child age is a restaurant one, under 12
    Breakfast for children
    Not published. Breakfast is 21 euros a head and no child rate exists
    Walk to The metro line the operator itself names
    Rue de Bagnolet near Pere Lachaise, as the operator gives it; it names no metro station on any page read to The metro line the operator itself names
    Right for
    A family of four with no baby, who want two connected bedrooms at a design-hotel price.
    Wrong for
    A family with a baby and an older child, who have nowhere to put the baby.
    The catch
    It publishes a cot refusal on the very room it calls Family. The only category that will take a crib is the Large Mama at 21 square metres, which tops out at three people, so a family with a baby and an older child cannot be housed. The hotel also names no metro station anywhere on its own site, which in the 20th is a genuine gap.
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  • 17th, avenue de Clichy

    Source Hotel

    €€

    Sells a family suite for up to five people and publishes beds for four, with the fifth place undefined on its own page.

    Room to book
    The 32 square metre family suite, two connecting rooms, if you are four rather than five
    Children stay free
    Not published
    Breakfast for children
    Not published
    Walk to The metro line the operator itself names
    Avenue de Clichy in the 17th, as the operator gives its address to The metro line the operator itself names
    Right for
    A family of four in the 17th who want two connecting rooms at a three-star price.
    Wrong for
    The family of five the room is advertised for.
    The catch
    The family suite is published as four to five people with beds for four and no fifth bed of any kind named, no lit d'appoint and no sofa bed, so the fifth person is undefined on the operator's own page. The air conditioning is unusually well specified as individually reversible, but no lift and no breakfast price is published.
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  • 9th, rue de la Victoire

    Hotel Imperial Paris

    €

    Uses the word quadruple and means it, but publishes its room sizes as ranges and its beds as a count with no sizes.

    Room to book
    The quadruple at 25 to 30 square metres, and ask which end of the range you are getting
    Children stay free
    Not published. No child rate appears anywhere on the site
    Breakfast for children
    Not published, against 14 euros for an adult
    Walk to The metro line the operator itself names
    Rue de la Victoire in the 9th, as the operator gives its address to The metro line the operator itself names
    Right for
    A family of four near Gare du Nord and the big stations who want a real quadruple cheaply.
    Wrong for
    A family of three, because the triple does not add up on the published figures.
    The catch
    Room sizes are published as ranges rather than figures, so a family booking the quadruple is buying somewhere between 25 and 30 square metres without knowing which, and bed counts are published with no bed sizes, so four beds could be four singles or two doubles. The triple publishes two beds against an occupancy of three, which does not add up unless one of them is a double, and the operator never says.
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  • 18th, place Charles Dullin

    Aparthotel Adagio Paris Montmartre

    €€

    The sister of the Tour Eiffel property and the cautionary version of it: same brand rules, smaller apartments, and it publishes in writing that it has no air conditioning.

    Room to book
    The 35 square metre one-bedroom for four, which is the ceiling for the whole building
    Children stay free
    Under 3, by the same counting rule as the sister property
    Breakfast for children
    Free for under-16s per the operator's index page
    Walk to The metro line the operator itself names
    Lines 2 and 12 at Abbesses and Anvers, as the operator names them to The metro line the operator itself names
    Right for
    A family of four who want Montmartre and a kitchen.
    Wrong for
    Anyone travelling in a Paris August, and any family of five.
    The catch
    It publishes in writing that the aparthotel has no apartments for disabled guests and no air conditioning, in a hillside building in the 18th. Its largest apartment takes four, and because Adagio counts every child of three and over as an occupant, there is no room in the building for a family of five. No lift is published either, and no bed line is published for any of its three apartment types, which the sister property in the 15th does publish.
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  • 10th, Boulevard de Denain

    25hours Hotel Terminus Nord

    €€€

    Publishes square metres for ten room categories and refuses to publish them for the one a family needs, which is the sharpest single omission on this page.

    Room to book
    The Family and Friends option, which is a phone call rather than a bookable category
    Children stay free
    Not published
    Breakfast for children
    Not published
    Walk to The metro line the operator itself names
    Boulevard de Denain opposite Gare du Nord, as the operator gives its address to The metro line the operator itself names
    Right for
    A family arriving by Eurostar who will ring the hotel before booking.
    Wrong for
    Anyone who wants to see the room size before paying.
    The catch
    Every one of its ten standard categories publishes square metres and the family category publishes neither square metres nor a maximum occupancy, and it cannot be booked online at all. The extra bed carries a charge the hotel does not print, and the FAQ page that would answer any of this returns 403 to any request.
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  • 14th, rue des Plantes

    ibis Styles Paris Alesia Montparnasse

    €

    Included deliberately as the negative case: a three-star that appears in family roundups and publishes no family room at all.

    Room to book
    Nothing. Every published room is 11 square metres for a maximum of two people
    Children stay free
    Not published
    Breakfast for children
    Not published
    Walk to The metro line the operator itself names
    Rue des Plantes in the 14th, as the operator gives its address to The metro line the operator itself names
    Right for
    Two adults on a budget.
    Wrong for
    Any family at all, on the operator's own published figures.
    The catch
    There is no family room here. All three published room types are 11 square metres and none takes more than two people, so a family of four needs two rooms, and the hotel publishes nothing about whether any of them connect. It is on this page to show what the Paris average actually looks like once you stop reading the roundups.
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Where not to book in Paris

Four traps, all from the operators' own pages. The first is the word familiale, which is not regulated and tells you nothing: at the Hotel des 2 Continents the Familiale and the Suite are the only two rooms on the whole table that carry an occupancy of four with no beds listed. The second is Adagio's counting rule, which sits in the terms of sale rather than on the apartment pages and states that all children aged three and above are considered individual occupants, so two adults and three children aged four and over are five people and cannot book a four-person flat however large it looks. The third is the cot: Mama Shelter Paris East publishes no baby crib on the very room it calls Family, and the only room in that building that takes a crib sleeps three. The fourth is the room sold for a number its own beds do not reach, which happens twice here, at the Hotel Imperial's triple and at Source Hotel's four-to-five family suite.

When to book

Decide the headcount against the published beds before you compare prices, because in Paris the constraint is physical rather than financial. If you are four, the field is wide and the question is only how much space you want for the money, from 20 square metres to 47. If you are five or six, the field collapses to two properties on published figures and both should be booked early. If you have a baby, check the cot line on the specific room rather than the hotel, because Mama Shelter publishes it room by room and the answer changes between categories in the same building.

Family hotels in Paris: FAQ

The questions parents ask most when booking a room here.

Nothing fixed, because it is not a regulated term. Across these twelve hotels it means three different products. A chambre familiale is one room holding the whole family, like the 24 square metre version at the Hotel des 2 Continents. Chambres communicantes are two rooms sold together with a connecting door, which is what the Hotel Napoleon's 55 square metre connecting room and Mama Shelter's XXL Mama Family actually are. A chambre quadruple is one room with four beds in it, which is what the Hotel Imperial and Hotel Saint-Louis Marais sell. Hotel Terminus Lyon is the clearest case in Paris because it sells all three side by side on the same page. The practical difference is a door: with communicantes the adults can close one, with a familiale nobody can.

No. The taxe de sejour is charged par personne majeure, per adult, and every minor is exempt by national statute under Article L2333-31 of the Code general des collectivites territoriales. In force from 1 January 2026 the Paris totals per adult per night, including the 10 per cent departmental addition, the 15 per cent for the Societe des Grands Projets and the 200 per cent for Ile-de-France Mobilites, are 15.93 euros for a palace, 11.70 for a five-star, 8.45 for a four-star, 5.53 for a three-star and 3.25 for a one- or two-star. One hotel in this set, the two-star Familia, prints 3.25 euros on its own site, matching the official row exactly.

Barely, and on published figures the honest answer is two properties. Aparthotel Adagio Paris Centre Tour Eiffel publishes a 75 square metre two-bedroom apartment for six, and the Hotel Napoleon publishes a 55 square metre connecting room for six with the beds itemised. Everything else here tops out at four. The reason is not that Paris hotels are hostile to families but that the buildings are old and small: Hotel Terminus Lyon puts it on the record, publishing that it is not possible to add an extra bed to rooms due to their architecture, and separately that for security reasons a double room cannot accommodate three people. Two adults and three children in one Paris room is close to a non-product, and the practical answer is an aparthotel or two connecting rooms.

On space, clearly. The one-bedroom apartments here run 32 to 47 square metres for three or four people, against 20 to 30 for a hotel quadruple, and the parents get a bedroom with a door. The trade is threefold. Adagio refuses additional beds brand-wide and counts every child of three and over as a full occupant, which is stricter than any hotel on this page. The extra places are usually sofa beds, and Citadines publishes a single sofa bed for two people without ever giving its dimensions. And the amenities are not guaranteed: Adagio Paris Montmartre publishes that it has no air conditioning at all, while Citadines Les Halles publishes air conditioning throughout.

Fewer than you would hope, and the useful ones are specific. Hotel Terminus Lyon publishes that a cot can be set up on request for any child under two, with no price. Citadines Les Halles publishes one cot per accommodation alongside children under two staying free. The Hotel des 2 Continents, the Hotel Imperial and Source Hotel all list a cot among on-request baby equipment without a price. Adagio offers baby kits at reception subject to availability. Mama Shelter Paris East is the outlier in both directions: it is the only operator here that publishes a crib line on every room category, and what those lines say is no baby crib on three of the four, including the family one. The Hotel Napoleon, a five-star that markets connecting rooms to families, publishes no cot policy at all and its two services pages return 404.

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