This is a boutique hotel in the 5th Arrondisement, Rive Gauche, about the best area for a tourist to appreciate both the ancient bones of the city and the classic postcard French lifestyle. From the start, the staff are absolutely polite and friendly. We’d reserved one of the better rooms, but if you’re in a boutique hotel on the Left Bank you’re not talking palatial dimensions. When we were unpacking the suitcases and getting organised it was like a game of Twister and not in a good way. Basic rooms, no coffee or tea making facilities, but there is a tea room and honesty bar downstairs. The buffet breakfast is pleasant but on the second morning of our stay, disaster struck… My home town of Perth, Australia has the best coffee outside of Italy. Fight me. So when the coffee machine breaks down, it puts a serious dampener on the breakfast, to the point that we tended to pop out to the corner boulanger for a pastry and a half decent coffee instead. Nice place, does the job, but they really needed a plan B for when what seems to be the only coffee machine in the building blows up. Even a backup pod machine? Would still stay there again. But with the assurance of coffee?