Originally Posted by CJKatl

Since you are locked into Cat 8, I'd recommend the Paris Opera House Marriott. In addition to touring Paris and experiencing world class museums, restaurants, window shopping and people watching, you can do day trips to Versailles, Normandy Beach and London. You may even want to extend the trip slightly by staying near the airport both the night you get in and the night you leave - cheaper hotels - so as to have time to do all three, plus tour Paris, or by adding a couple days in London, Amsterdam or Brussels (awesome train rides) or Prague, Vienna or Rome (inexpensive fast flights) to the end of the trip.