Heading home we opted to stay one night in Reims and I had booked into the Hotel de l'univers. I have to say I had some reservation about booking here because I had seen the hotel in the past but the website persuaded me that it was not what I thought: silly me. My reason for staying here was it is very convenient to the slightly naff walking and entertainment street of Place Drouet d'Erlon, but to me the attraction was the excellent Brassiere Flo a few steps down from Univers. I had specifically requested car parking and found there was none on site as requested but was in a public car park down the road - which involved a considerable drive to get to. I was tempted to go elsewhere but had paid a deposit. My sisters pointed out to the receptionist the rooms were unclean: her answer was renovations are due: as if that explained away bad cleaning! It was one of those old fashioned hotels that may have once been 3 star but should now be one star and the receptionists seemed to know it as they both seemed apologetic in their attitudes.. We arrived back at about 10 pm and asked for a drink in the bar and were rudely told by a harridan, who I assumed was the manager, that the bar was closed.
- Le Grand Reims
