Guest User
July 27, 2024
This hotel is a gem. I admit it is located a bit outside the Paris city center, but give me a minute to tell you about this gem a short metro ride outside downtown Paris. Even tough I could see the Eiffel Tower from my balcony (the top spear) that is not at all the reason to book a stay here. The hotel is new, modern and clean. The staff is friendly, service minded and speaks English WAY better than I speak French. If you are traveling with a family, as I were, the pizza restaurant at the first floor is worth the stay in its own. They serve extremely good Italian pizza and pasta. The kind that I only have got better in Italy. If they are fully booked, stop by for the pizza. I HIGHLY recommend it. We booked two rooms. One with a balcony, and one with a "terrace", and we were five people. What you have to understand is that every hotel and accommodation in Paris is small. Tiny even, to my standards. But that is the same everywhere (except Disneyland, but don't go there). Compared to the size of the rooms, these were smart, small and clean. You could move around most of the furniture, and there were hangers, and roof storage for suitcases and such. The bathrooms were a delight. Had they been bigger, I could have been there all day. Clean, functional and modern. Good lightning, but low on storage area. The cleaning of the rooms and hotel were really good. Nothing left and they move around my junk, to clean. My largest regret is that I forgot to tip them enough. And the rooms are quite sound proof and quiet. We had rooms right by the elevator, and I was kind of sceptic to how much noise we would get. The rooms are quite well sound proofed and all you basically hear is the AC. Even when the rain was pouring down one night, I did not hear a thing. And transportation is super easy. The entry to metro station "Porte des Lilas" is maybe 15 meters away, and that gives you access to the entire city. It is cheap, quite easy to use by tickets on iPhone or cards you can buy (unfortunately not supporting the Oyster card like London), but faster and more convenient than a cab. Traffic is quite heavy in Paris, so I suggest you use the metro to get around the city, and a bolt if you are going longer distances like Versailles, Disneyland or the airport. The breakfast was OK. Nothing fancy at all, but a little something to start the day. But please, you are in Paris. Use the local bistros, restaurants and bakeries. I assume those are part of why you are here in the first place. The hotel offers baguette, bread, eggs, bacon and croissants and assorted cereals and fruits. Their orange juice is fantastic by the way. Only draw back was the breakfast coffee machine with milk. Not that great.