Five nights in a very good hotel on our favorite street. Definitely recommended. 1. Location: On the quiet Rue Delambre in the unfashionable 14th close the Vavin Metro stop. This is where the 6th, 7th, 13th and 14th come together. Lots of nearby good-excellent restaurants and a number of famous tourist-infested ones. Easy Metro access to the entire city. 2. Breakfast: A full breakfast buffet. Eggs, bacon, sausage, ham, cheese, croissants, juice, coffee, yogurt. The scrambled eggs are cooked soft and fluffy. The chairs are comfortable. The supplement is €6/person--a bargain. 3. Room: Decent sized comfortable bed. Wi-Fi (free). Excellent shower with copious amounts of hot water. A towel warmer. The negative is the TV--only standard cable channels en Française. 4. Staff: Friendly and helpful. €1103 for 5 nights including breakfasts for 2 people read more

BEWARE! Your possessions are NOT safe here. They WILL go through your possessions while you are out enjoying the city. We stayed here from the December 23-27th. We had our personal belongings rummaged through while we were out for our last day in town. When we returned we noticed the room was disheveled and things were knocked over on our desk. My wife decided to check one of her bags and noticed that a member of the staff managed to find a small cosmetic bag buried deep in one of her bags. They opened it to find money we had stashed away for emergency and stole $160 USD from us. The staff has been indifferent to our claim. Their response was that they asked the staff and they answered that they didn't take anything. Montparnasse is a wonderful neighborhood. This hotel is not a good place to stay. There are too many wonderful options in Paris... do not choose this one! read more

The good: - free wifi ;) - elevator (small, but we fit with the luggage an that's all that matters) - decent sized bathroom in our "club" sized room - great location, close to two metro lines and the RER directly to/from the airport - plus lots of creperies within a stone's throw The bad: - you're required to leave the room key with the front desk when you leave the hotel every time. When you return, you just tell them the room number and they hand you the key. This made us nervous - they never once confirmed our name or anything else when giving us a room key. - housekeeping was late - breakfast is crazy expensive - get out and go buy some fresh baked goods on your own instead of eating in their lobby - a bit pricey, but hey, it's Paris I'd probably return here in the future, but really annoyed about that key thing... read more

Small, charming hotel with friendly staff, comfortable rooms and a killer breakfast (included). Love the "honesty" happy hour bar. Great neighborhood!! read more

Hotel Lenox Montparnasse - Breakfast at Hotel Lenox - Hotels Near Me - Paris, 75

I found the style of the review below me useful and to the point, so I'm going to copy!! Yeah, I'm not very original now, am I! The pros: - cleanliness of the rooms. My husband has OCD and I joked that the maids were more OCD than he is. - location. What a cute neighborhood. I loved that it was not touristy at all - I think watching everyday Parisian life was the favorite part of my trip. There were plenty of bars and restaurants (check out Le Relais de l'entrecote on Blvd du Montparnasse. Yummm!!!). Also, there is a local patisserie that is amazing - go get a croissant. The hotel was conveniently located between two metro stops that would take you to all of the tourist traps. Explore your neighborhood - there was a whole street of creperies and plenty of French and Asian restaurants surrounding the hotel. Say 'Bonjour' to my bartender friends at the Blue Sky bar across Rue Delambre. They taught me some French while we listened to old school American and British music. - free wifi and tv. I got to update my Facebook everyday! Yay! LOL. And we watched a ton of movies in French. I watched that Megan Fox Vampire movie in French and it was pretty good because I didn't understand what they were saying. - most of the front desk was friendly and helpful. There was one evening guy who worked there that was probably the rudest person we met in France. I understand it is a cultural difference but damn. The second evening guy was the complete opposite of rude guy. He went above and beyond and did extra research on train schedules in preparation for our 5:00 am departure the next day. I'm so thankful for him. While we were downstairs talking to him, another hotel guest called down because they didn't know how to use their shower (lol) and he offered to come go up to the room himself and show them!!! So nice! The cons: -street noise. The garbage trucks make their way down the street on Tuesday and Thursday mornings between 6:30 - 8:00ish a.m. My sleep was already horrible due to jetlag and the extreme time difference. The garbage trucks didn't help. - thinness of the doors. After the garbage trucks came and went, the hotel maids started cleaning. You could hear every bump and thud outside of our door. - get the club room. We had a club room and the extra foot or so helps. I still thought the bathrooms were a little on the small side. We didn't eat at the hotel. It didn't look like it was worth it and there are SO many restaurants and cafes in the area that you can find food for whatever craving you have! read more

Good hotel in a very convenient location. The hotel is close to 3 metro stops (on 2 different lines). You can get here straight from Gare du Nord without interchanges. The best thing about the hotel is that it feels like locals live in this area. So, on the same street is a Fromagerie, supermarket, fish shop, butcher, etc. On Saturday, there is a local food market nearby with cheese, meat, seafood, fruit and veges. On Sunday, the food turns into art including paintings, sculpture, photography. Nothing I would buy but nice to know that locals go here. The hotel is slightly expensive but no more so than other Parisean hotels. Rooms are comfortably and nicely furnished although small. Free wireless internet is included but breakfast costs a lot more. Better to grab breakfast at the many cafes and bakeries nearby. read more

First, some corrections of other reviews: The hotel is in the 15th, not the 14th and on the edge of the 7th. Second, breakfast is free with the BB package, which is definitely worth it. Endless coffee, tea, cereal, hot breakfast (eggs and bacon and sausage), pastries, fruit. You can also go down 2 doors to a bakery--if it isn't the day it is closed, or to the fruit stand. But breakfast in the hotel is a good bargain if you like to sit for a while before heading out for the day. Also, there is an honor bar so you can get a drink--hard or soft--when you come home in the evening. Third, you do not need to give in your key each time you leave but as it weighs about 3 lbs you probably want to. Also, the staff recognizes the guests so after going to Rm 64 all week, you can't just get the key to Rm 52 to go exploring other people's belongings! And there is a safe in the room for valuables. The hotel is on a quiet street, near a busy square with two famous Left Bank cafes, Le Dome and Le Rotund. It is a short walk to dozens of restaurants and shops and Montparnasse Cemetery, with Jean Paul-Satre and Simone de Beauvoir, the Kiss by Brancusi, the famous Charles Pigeon tomb, Alfred Dreyfus and many more famous Parisians. There are shops with women's and children's clothes and chocolates nearby. Close by are 2 metros and a taxi stand that always has taxis. Thus the hotel is convenient to everything in Paris at an affordable price. The rooms are nicely furnished and very clean and quite comfortable. There is free wifi. The elevator is very tiny. A couple and their hand luggage fill it. Let the staff take your bigger bags to the room. I don't know how they do it, but they do! The staff is lovely and fluent in English. We learned about the hotel from a friend and plan to return. I recommend it highly. read more

This place is awesome! Diana knows all the cool places to hang out and eat. The rooms are very clean and they have air conditioning! They have a bar downstairs and offer breakfast in the morning. I would stay here again for sure! read more

The Lenox Montparnasse is the best of both worlds: a charming small hotel in a convenient, central city location. The best part, though, is the staff: All of them, from the front-desk managers to the room cleaners and servers, are as helpful as can be. My room was small--but I was in Paris, after all, and I was alone, so I didn't mind. It was clean, comfortable and quiet, which is what I ask of any place where I stay. I had their breakfast on the day I checked in and on the day I checked out. It's good, though a little pricey. (But it is in a hotel in Paris, after all.) The other days (10 in total), I bought bread, fruit and cheese from the shops along the street where the hotel is located and had impromptu picnics whenever I felt hungry. That is really what worked best for me, as--when I wasn't visiting a couple of friends--I spent most of my time in Paris bike riding, visiting museums, galleries and monuments and checking out flea markets and the like, with no fixed itinerary. I actually didn't mind leaving the key with the front desk. I don't lose things (at least, not often). BUt at least I didn't have the risk of misplacing the key when I was out and about. And the staff very quickly remembered who I am and in which room I stayed. I would definitely stay there again the next time I go to Paris. read more

Pros: * The neighborhood (14th A.) is mostly residential and so provides an "authentic" Parisian experience. * Excellent location within the neighborhood - walk out the door, take a right, and within your first hundred paces you pass a patisserie (beautiful breads/pastries and cakes), a boucherie (wonderful aroma of chickens and potatoes roasting in a small oven outside the front door), a bistro that serves only fish (Le Bistrot du Dome - a must if you like seafood). Take a left and again, within a short walk you pass a couple of boulangeries, a great Italian butcher/cheese shop (great sandwiches), a fruit/vegetable market, a small "super market" (very helpful and convenient) a wine shop and a few cafés. You could spend several days just eating and drinking on this one block of rue Delambre and have a great experience. Get to one end of the block and there is a stunning farmers' market (on some days) and the gateway to the southern part of Montparnasse, at the other end of the block are famous brasseries/cafes (le Select - good, la Coupole - big, classic, famous) and a jumping off point into St. Germain. * Sebastian and the rest of the staff at the hotel are very helpful in reserved sort of way (think of waiters who are attentive, take care of any request, but otherwise don't interject themselves into your dinner.) I do agree, however with the comment above about one of the night desk guys - on the first night I asked him if he thought a particular restaurant up the street would be good, and if he could recommend someplace else in case we couldn't get in - his response was essentially "its fine, you can go to any of the cafes/bistros up the street, they are all good enough for you" (which is not true). Not a big deal, just don't look for this guy to be helpful. * The room was fine, clean, perhaps small for American standards but typical of rooms in Paris and certainly big enough. We had a room with a balcony on Delambre, which was a huge plus. * Typical comforts are all there- free tv & wifi, good shower, mini-bar (with reasonable prices) , comfortable bed/pillows/linens * Lounge on the first floor is an "honesty bar" - go behind the bar, help yourself to a drink and mark it down. Comfortable, almost always empty and a nice place to have a nightcap and skim the travel books to come up with a game plan for the next day. Cons: * The comments from other reviewers about the occasional street noise at odd hours were true (i.e., you could hear the trash pick-up on a couple of mornings; on weekends young people singing in the streets loudly after the bars closed), but don't get the impression that this is a "noisy" street. It's pretty quiet actually, with relatively light car traffic, but with the narrow streets, loud noises are amplified. This would be the same pretty much anywhere in Paris - nothing "uniquely loud" about rue Delambre. * Regarding the comment about security and leaving the key at the front desk, it is a good point, I suppose some thief could try to get your room key, but this seems very remote to me. It is a small hotel and the folks at the desk seem to be aware of who is in what room. In any event, each room has a safe and you set the combination yourself. * If you are looking to spend the bulk of your time at the more famous tourist spots (e.g., Louve, Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame) I would think you would want to be closer to the Seine. read more

This is a hotel that we stayed at recently when we began our tour. It was centrally located and was the hotel of choice of the Rick Steves tour company! There was a large restaurant area next to the front reception that was perfect for groups! The staff spoke good English and the room was fantastic! It is very close to the Metro, which took us around town! There were a couple grocery stores/pharmacies nearby in case we forgot something, which we did. The best thing about this hotel was its location and price!! When you are in a foreign city, one of the most important things you want is to have easy access to all the sites!! We did not need a taxi, and we were walking distance to good food. There was laundry facilities nearby, and the staff was helpful and understood/spoke good english!! The room did not have a great view, but it was not bad of the street below. The bed was not large, but comfortable. There was an elevator, which was nice. We also loved the idea of the "honesty" bar!! I highly recommend this hotel!! read more

I loved this hotel! It was perfect for Paris, feeling authentically European while meeting every need. Our room was small like almost every European hotel room, but succeeded in feeling spacious. We faced the street, and had huge French doors leading to a tiny balcony. With the windows open and the gauzy curtains pulled it felt open and private, with a great breeze. The bathroom was adorable and surprisingly big. The hotel lounge has self serve cocktails and wine, and very comfortable lounge chairs, couches, tables, for relaxing after a long day, before heading back out to dinner. The location is excellent, there's a good patisserie, wine bar, and small grocery right next door. We were close to multiple metro stops, and the subway takes you everywhere. We felt like we were 20 min from everything mostly. It's right by Tour Montparnasse, with amazing 56th floor views of Paris, including Eiffel Tower. Petit Pont around the corner was an amazing café. Highly recommend staying here. Also staff was unfailingly polite and professional. We stayed at another hotel on right bank for the 2nd half of trip, more money, not half as good. read more

All previous reviews were spot on. We did not use the breakfast, preferring instead to patronize the local shops for juice & breads. Handy metro stops @ both ends of the street; one line goes directly to Gare de L'est, which we used for the next stage of our trip. read more

My favorite place to stay in Paris. Location is perfect for those who want to experience a slightly less touristy side of the city. Friendly staff and simple, yet charming rooms. read more