I'm not very good at remembering to follow up - sorry! We ended up staying at the Hotel Perreyve (http://www.hotelperreyve.com/) in the 6th just 1 block from the Luxembourg gardens. Great access to metro stops, food and shopping as well. It was a typical 2* hotel, clean but small-ish. The staff was very nice and helpful (and spoke English). We stayed for 4 nights at 105 Euros/night and then traveled through France for another week, then came back and stayed one more night there before flying back to the US. They held some of our baggage while we traveled around which was very nice b/c we had formal clothing from a wedding we attended and lots of wine. We booked the hotel straight off their website.