We chose this hotel because it was in Montparnasse and as we had been to Paris only once before and had stayed in this area, we were familiar with it and like the area. Extra bonus is that we used the Air France coach transfer to Montparnasse from Charles De Gaulle airport and as luck would have it, the coach stopped directly opposite this hotel. This was great as we both had large suitcases so it was just a 20 second walk across the road. We used booking.com, happy with the rate we got.
The hotel is very large, huge foyer with a bar and coffee shop etc. We found the drinks in the bar to be very expensive (even though the Aus $ is good) so only had one drink there. Breakfast in the hotel was 25 Euro, we decided to look for alternative options for breakfast and found many little restaurants in the area offered better value for money.
We had room 1535, on the 15th floor. Great views but our room faced the opposite direction to the Eiffel Tower, but we were happy with this room. As with all European hotel rooms (or most of them), the rooms are not large but this room had a lovely huge king size bed, very clean all round, a desk, flat screen tv with many channels (only about 4 or 5 English speaking channels that were mostly news only but that was fine, I think the English speaking channels started on channel 49 or 50), bathroom was clean and reasonably modern with a shower over the bath. Water pressure was great and the hotel provided plenty of complimentary toiletries.
Desk staff were quite good, our check in was swift and relatively painless. There is a small area with 3 PC's for customer use but we found that 2 of them were not working properly and the keyboards were totally rubbish. However, it is also a wi-fi area so if you bring your own laptop (etc), it would be quite useful.
Room service is available but we didn't use this so I can't comment. There are sooo many lovely restaurants and bars around that area (plus a few markets), it's worthwhile getting out and about. We did not find any issues with safety in the area or the hotel, it was very quiet in the evenings and no problems.
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