The good news is that this hotel is centrally located, has large comfortable beds, does an OK breakfast buffet, free Wi-Fi for more trip planning and is good value. The staff are very helpful (but if you try to do your bit by speaking in halting French they take no prisoners and respond with language spat out at a machine gun rattle!).

However, there is no air conditioning so if you visit in the summer, you will have to open your window in order to sleep - and many of the rooms overlook a busy street with tram noise, sirens etc.. Ambient temp was 18C when we were there and we were able to sleep with the windows shut, just, but the experience was marginal and I imagine would be quite unpleasant at summer temperatures.

Also if you are traveling by car, you are in for fun. Paraphrasing the receptionist: "if you know how to do it, it's easy; if you don't, it's not". The hotel is difficult to access (in a pedestrianised area accessible through remotely operated barriers). The hotel has no parking so you have to find on street parking in the maze of one-way streets (which actually proved easier than I anticipated).

The package included a free Kir Royale on arrival - very nice (but I can think of nicer places to have a drink than the rather uncharming hotel reception area) and a free packed lunch the next day: factory-sealed ham sandwich, packet of potato crisps, an apple and a bottle of water. Perfectly OK but I can't think when I would eat such a meal in France!