I stayed at this holiday inn express while visiting Paris for a week in June. When we travel, we…read morealways try to stay at holiday inns since they're known quantities, they offer a pretty nice free breakfast, and we've got rewards status with them. Personally, I think this particular holiday inn express was fine and fairly standard, but nothing particularly nice or special. It offered by far the cheapest prices for a western hotel chain within pairs (zone 1-3) and is a pretty good choice if you don't mind needing to take 1-2 metro trains to get to the Paris sights. As with all holiday inn expresses, they offer a free continental breakfast and free wifi if you join the rewards program. Additionally, the hotel front desk staff all speak English.
The room itself was mostly clean and updated. For Europe sizes, I think the room size was actually pretty large. The beds were nice. They were soft and comfortable, and not at all lumpy which is an issue I've had at other European holiday inn expresses. However, I did notice that the mattresses themselves were brown and pretty damn gross. The hotel uses flat sheets, not fitted, so after a night or two they had pulled away and exposed the mattress. Aside from this, I was quite happy with the room. They have nice blackout curtains which is essentially for me and the building seems to be well insulated from sound.
I do want to note that I found their AC to be pretty darn weak. They did have AC which helped to make the room tolerable (especially since it was in the 80s the whole time we visited), but you definitely won't be able to get the room "cool."
As far as location goes, this particular holiday inn express was fairly convenient but is definitely not in the heart of paris. You have to walk 5-10 minutes to the nearest metro stop which lets you take the 7 line into paris. From there, you can transfer to most metro lines somewhere along the 7. Generally, it took us about 30-60 minutes to get where we wanted to go depending on whether or not we had to transfer. Otherwise, I think it's about a 30-40 minute uber/taxi/drive to most sights. The canal area is pretty and was definitely nice to walk around. There are restaurants around to eat at which all seem to accommodate English speakers, but there was not a whole lot of variety unfortunately.
Breakfast was pretty good actually. Better than other hotel continental breakfasts I've had. They offer scrambled eggs (boxed not fresh), european bacon, sausage, a selection of cheeses and deli meats, baguettes, chocolate and pain croissants, toast, jams/nutella/honey, some cereals, yogurt, fruits, and apple/orange juice.
Overall, I was content with my stay here and I would come back or recommend the hotel for budget savy travelers who don't mind a bit of distance. I don't think it's the nicest hotel in the world, but it was fine for my needs.