Great location! And that's about all.
Everything else left something to be desired. This hotel is LARGE (8 floors) and the rooms are TINY. And I'm very accustomed to Paris's small hotels and tiny rooms. But this room did not even have a closet (just a corner cube that they hung some hangers from - but don't try to fool me, that is NOT a closet). There was no desk/lamp, nowhere to put a suitcase!!! The a/c worked well thankfully, but the lights turned off randomly and someone from maintenance had to reset the fuse or something. There is no safe in the room!! The A/C worked well. The bathroom is so small that you cannot sit on the toilet unles you close the door. In fact you cannot even see the toilet unless you close the door. The towels were adequate. The shower water pressure was good. There are no electrical outlets in the bathroom!!!!!! Nor was there one near the "quasi-closet" area. There was a crummy, weak hair dryer in the bathroom. Perhaps the worst part of the hotel is the breakfast. Wow ~ in my 25+ years of European travel, this was the worst breakfast of all the hotels I've stayed in. Let me explain: an 8-floor hotel in Paris means somewhere in the range of 400+ rooms.....let's say at least 800 people at a time staying there. Well, the breakfast room was good for maybe 200 at most. There were long lines for everything.....and by everything, I mean the terrible coffee brewed in one of those automatic machines, the miniature croissants and pain au chocolates, and the cereal. Other than that, there were two weak little fridges holding plates of cheese and sliced ham. There were luke-warm yogurts on the bottom. So your choices were cereal, bread, one kind of cheese, sliced ham, and warm yogurt. There was absolutely NOTHING yummy about this breakfast at all. Even the coffee was bad. To make matters worse, there were not enough tables for everyone so once you finished the cattle-call line-up of choosing your crappy food, then you had to wait around for people to leave and then you sat at a dirty table because the breakfast staff were too overwhelmed to keep up with busing the tables. One last note....the "style" or decor of the hotel is supposed to be sort of a cool street-art/graffiti feel. However, this just comes off really badly and looks more like high school notebook sketches everywhere, and some of the artwork is just downright creepy (like the weird pig body door art hanging in the breakfast room). There were these spray-painted "artsy" drawings on the walls in the hallways of the hotel and to be perfectly honest, they were just tacky. Not a cool vibe at all. It would definitely be my very last choice for a hotel in the future, even though it is in Bercy which is a cool part of town. Stay at the Mercure instead! read more