Amy Adejokun
Section editor
A basic and very central hotel with functional but rather charmless guest rooms. The rather tasteful breakfast room is now housed in the former bar area.
17/20
The hotel boasts a prime location in a very busy part of the 1st arrondissement, between the Louvre, Châtelet and Les Halles. The Île de la Cité is just at the end of the street, across the Pont-Neuf bridge, so you can walk to Notre-Dame Cathedral very easily. The hotel is also well-located for exploring the little alleyways and monuments of central Paris on foot. Line A of the RER rail network which links the city to Disneyland runs just nearby, whilst various metro lines, which will take you anywhere in the city, connect at Châtelet station, just a three-minute walk away.
All of the guest rooms at this one-star hotel have tiny little bathrooms and can accommodate from one to four people. The furniture and design of the place have a definite touch of the 1970s about them, whilst amenities, too, are kept to a minimum, and include a television, desk and storage unit. The rooms are all decorated slightly differently and the colour used in the paintwork varies from one room to the next. The place is pretty clean on the whole, but try to have a look at a few of the rooms because some are more welcoming than others and feature brighter decor. There is no Wi-Fi access here but there is a computer with an internet connection at the bar on the ground floor, which also serves as the breakfast room. You can expect to receive a warm welcome here, too.
This hotel was really quite a shock; despite being a very basic one-star establishment it does still offer a few original touches. Admittedly, this place is best suited to backpackers looking for budget rooms with little concern for the mod-cons, but it's nevertheless a rather pleasant little place. The hotelier, for example, has bought the bar next door, 'Le Petit Goulot', and has left it in its original state, with all the personality of your typical locals' bar. It now uses it as a breakfast room. This authentic French bar, complete with a random assortment of posters on the walls and an actual bar with stools, makes for far more refreshing surroundings than your typical Parisian breakfast room, usually tucked away in the dark, damp depths of a vaulted room in the basement. It has to be said that this is really the only original feature of this otherwise pretty meagre hotel. The rest is purely traditional and uninspiring.
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