This hotel was allright. The best part was the friendly and helpful stuff. It also offered a fair breakfast buffet for extra money (7 euros), which is a bit more expensive than buying coffee and croissants from the bakery but that was allright. The neighbourhood although close to the train and metro station (and near to a stop of the suttle from and to airport) was not good at all. It is the part of Toulouse with lots of homeless people and felt unsafe late at night. The entire canal area was like that, and it was a bit of a disappointment. The room was very clean, with a big double bed, a big bathtub, and separate toilet and was cleaned very thoroughly daily.

The Hôtel D'Orsay in Toulouse is really only a hotel that I would use in transit. It is close to the railway station and is handy for collecting rental cars. It is also a very seedy part of town. The staff were very good but the hotel needs an upgrade and I'm not sure wandering the streets at night would be wise

We stayed two nights, checking in with no notice - by the evening it was full. Staff very helpful and welcoming. Room small but clean, bed fine, breakfast very adequate. Nice to have a bath. Very close to both railway and bus station, and not too far from the historic centre. Seedy area but did not cause us any problems. Good value for a simple hotel, and we would stay again. (Next time we will book in advance!) Nice small garden - you would not know you were in the middle of the city. We were on folding bikes, so did not try the parking. There was a space to leave the bikes at night.

A two star establishment that deserves its rating. (I am making this point for, as I occasionally used to already point out, in France you might sometimes really wonder at what criteria are applied for the hotel star rating...).
Very close to the central train station (2 minutes walk), convenient for a traveler's stop-over and a longer stay, alike. The hotel is 10-15 minutes walk to the city center, admittedly through an area of cheap Asian bars, dubious private clubs and red-light zones; but the route through the narrow, not-so-clean side streets it did not seem unsafe.
The room I was given was adequate to what you might expect from a **hotel: a small room with a standard basic equipment, and a nice, quite spacious WC/toilette.
Do not fear the (cheaper) room option “canal view”; the windows go to the street, along which a nice canal paves its way, and beyond, you get to see the nice building of the Toulouse train station.
No comment on the breakfast quality for in France, I hardly ever use that option.