Le Bar Central, 33 rue Vielle-du-Temple, 4e (01-48-87-99-33; Métro: Hôtel-de-Ville), is one of the leading gay bars in the Hôtel-de-Ville area. In fact, it's the most famous gay men's bar in Paris today. The club has established a small hotel upstairs with a few facilities and only six rooms. Both the bar and its little hotel are in a 300-year-old building in the heart of the Marais; the hotel caters to gay men, less frequently to lesbians. Le Bar is open from 4pm to 1am Sunday to Thursday, to 2am Friday and Saturday.

Hôtel Central, 33 rue Vieille-du-Temple, 7e (01-48-87-99-33 ; Métro: Hôtel-de-Ville), is the most famous gay hotel in France. The rooms are on the third, fourth and fifth floors of the 18th-century building that contains Le Bar Central, the Marais' most entrenched gay bar. If you arrive between 8am and 4pm, you'll find a registration staff one floor above street level; if you arrive at any other time, you'll have to register at the street-level bar. The rooms are simple, serviceable, and durable. Women are welcome but rare.
6 rooms, none with bath. 420F ($84) single, 510F ($102) double. Breakfast 35F ($7). MC, V.