I spent one night here a couple of days ago. When I walked in the door the manageress behind the desk reluctantly interrupted a personal phone conversation for a few moments to hand over my key and point me to the stairs. I could see that the poor woman was extremely tired, but even so one got the sense that she'd have been rude even if fully rested. No elevator. The room, a double which went for 50 Euros, was a decent size but bare-bones furnished. Clean except for stains on the bedspread. Wool plaid scratchy blanket. Bad reception on the TV set. Otherwise not bad. Except for the TV blasting in the next room. Which was still blasting when I returned from dinner at 1 a.m. No response to knocks on the wall or on their door. Finally I had to wake up the management again so they could call whomever was in there on the telephone and tell them to shut off the set. The manager supposed they had taken "sleeping pills." Hmm. Fortunately it was relatively cool in Paris this week and I could sleep with the windows closed. Otherwise, because this place only has 3 floors, the traffic noise in my street-facing room would have been deafening. I know, because I tried opening the windows for a while to drown out the TV noise. The neighborhood is interesting and hotel is less than a block from Bolivar metro station on the obscure 7 bis line. But I wouldn't recommend staying here to anyone other than hearing-impaired, budget conscious travelers who are more or less indifferent to their surroundings.