After reading the review, I will be factual.
Good
1. location as the Gare Du Nord metro was very close - so handy. 2. Catered for a family of 5. 3. Had an ensuite. 4. Continental breaky included. 5. had a small elevator. 6. About the only thing we could afford to stay in under $700 for 3 nights when everything else was over $2000AUD 7. Clean towels. 8. Room was lovely and warm. 9. No Bed bugs (we pulled off every sheet and looked as we know what we were looking for - been there done that)
Not so good.
1. Scaffolding head to toe so not a nice arrival look for unsuspecting Aussie people.
2. Felt like a dodgy area... but then Kingscross Sydney is as well, so is Paddington London.
3. Reception did not have a good grasp of English - but then we should have learned some French
4. Reception area stunk of over bleached dirt
5. Could not tell the colour of the stairs carpet - and the stench made you hold your nose.
6. No insulation in the bedroom so we could hear the family next door word for word. You can even hear them turn over in their sleep....no jokes.
7. Room not serviced so get used to making your bed
8. Staff did not smile once .... no pride, no atmosphere ... do they really want to be there??
9. Bathroom new but not clean. Mould everywhere. They did not clean our bathroom although did empty the bins and give fresh towels.
10. We were in a room for 5 - the 3 single beds were pushed together ... ha ha try making them in the morning.

Look. My big tip is, if you want to save money stay. Imagine you are a back packer staying at a back pack place in some third world country and you will feel like you are in a palace.

good localization (near from Gare du Nord and also from Gare d'Est), but the room does not answer expectations... we did not have a towel available!!! Also we did not have air conditioning (and it was very hot that day). Breakfast was not soo good, very few options, and coffe and milk were cold. Few options of bread (1, if I can well remember)... I have been in Picpus hotel, and the price was the same but the hotel was much better!
We wanted to pay for internet (one hour) and they did not have this available - we had to go to another place to use internet.

Please read the reviews before booking this hotel!
The worst experience ever! Very dirty and is situated in a very bad area that we were afraid to walk around.
Service was very poor and breakfast was the same every day! We simply hated it .
Absolutely overpriced for the sevice!
Terrible experince.

After all the bad reviews I actually thought the hotel was fine as a cheap, budget hotel - it felt safe, was clean, staff were friendly enough and everything in my room worked. Breakfast was fairly avergae for a low budget French hotel in my experience - no worse, no better than the far superior hotel that I'd just checked out from in Eastern France(although the dining area was more dismal!).

But the price I paid for a single occupancy room (125 Euros) meant the hotel was poor value for money. Location was great for me having an enforced overnight stay in between train journeys as its a few minutes walk to both Gare D'Est (where I arrived) and Gare du Nord (where I departed). I can see that the area could be seen as quite scary but I had a fabuilous night wandering (alone) in the nearby streets on mid-summer night listening to music spilling out onto the paverments from all corners of the world. We had Bangladeshi heavy metal, Afro-cuban beats, a Manic Street Preachers sound-alike, a rapper from Mauritiaus, pan pipes from South America and Irish fiddle playing - all within a square kilometre of the hotel. Everyone I encountered during this after-dinner stroll was really friendly - the local residents obviously know how to enjpy themselves on Paris' Fete de la Musique!

I'm glad I hadn't read the reviews recounting muggings in the areas as I doubt I would have ventured out at night and would have missed all this amazing, quite unique range of diversity and musical entertainment.