"一个...的..." v "...的一个..."
In a recent notebook post I wanted to write "I stayed in a central Paris hotel". I wrote sentence 1 below, using a sentence structure that I understand to be correct. Most correctors left it like that, so I assume that it's not wrong. However, a couple changed it to sentence 2 below with the 一个 coming straight after the 的 towards the end of the sentence.

Could someone explain what the difference is between:
1. 我住在一个巴黎中心的宾馆。
2. 我住在巴黎中心的一个宾馆。

Are they both correct and do they have the same/different meanings? Is it more of a stylistic thing, having the 一个 where it appears in sentence 2? Or is there some other explanation for it?

Thanks for any explanations you can offer.

Question

"一个...的..." v "...的一个..."
In a recent notebook post I wanted to write "I stayed in a central Paris hotel". I wrote sentence 1 below, using a sentence structure that I understand to be correct. Most correctors left it like that, so I assume that it's not wrong. However, a couple changed it to sentence 2 below with the 一个 coming straight after the 的 towards the end of the sentence.

Could someone explain what the difference is between:
1. 我住在一个巴黎中心的宾馆。
2. 我住在巴黎中心的一个宾馆。

Are they both correct and do they have the same/different meanings? Is it more of a stylistic thing, having the 一个 where it appears in sentence 2? Or is there some other explanation for it?

Thanks for any explanations you can offer.

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我住在一个巴黎中心的宾馆。 seems more natural to me

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they have a  little differnce.but have same means.

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Even though I understand your phrases, and they are grammatically correct - or should I say, not wrong - personally, I would put it like this:
1.我住的賓館在巴黎中心。
(This sounds more natural to me in a conversation.)
2.我住在一間位於巴黎中心的賓館。
(In writing, adding "位於" (= situated in/ situé + pré.) may no be necessary, but it helps avoiding some ambiguous meaning.)

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The first one is hard to deliver a clear expression: is there more than one "巴黎中心" or it is just saying "one of the hotal in Paris Centre"? So I prefer the second one.

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It's more logical to go from the general to the particular ( Paris is the city and the hotel is located in a particular part of the city ).

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