Posted 25 August 2005
For starters, I rather doubt that you're going to find a Paris 3-star, in central Paris for $100 per night. With that hotel budget, you will probably be looking at 2-stars. If you bother to scroll back througn posts of the past week/ten-days, you will find recommendations for a fair number of excellent 2-star hotels in convenient locations.
As for airfares $785 per person sounds high, even if it was for Christmas/New Year's week---but then you didn't mention whether you were flying from an east coast gateway city, the midwest or west coast---which effects the cost of airfare. From NYC. it sounds high--but perhaps not so bad from Seattle or Phoenix.