This hotel was the first on our France honeymoon trip. After a little confusion with the other Mercure Defense hotel, we ended up here where we were graciously greeted at the front desk. We had mentioned ahead of time that this was our honeymoon, and they were wonderful. We were upgraded to a better room and there was a beautiful plate of fruit on the table. We opted for the buffet breakfast the next morning and found it full of delicious fruit, pastries and meats. We ate a lot of such breakfasts while we were in France and this one was definitely one of the best.
It's true that this place is in the financial district, so there's not much around on the weekends, but we did manage to find a great little italian place just down the street.
This hotel is also really really close to the subway station, which makes it super convenient for getting around. We would definitely stay here again.

Ok so it's not handy for tourists but we were on a Cosmos tour so had the coach to travel into the tourist spots and there is a train station right next door! The rooms are huge I stayed in 108 and it had a separate door to the bedroom and bathroom it was clean ... The breakfast catered to all tastes. The poor barman didn't really know how to make the drinks we ordered but was happy and muddled through with a smile on his face which is always nice...

The hotel is quite new and the rooms are nice and clean. Location ok for business, but the area is completely dead at night and on the weekends. The main problem with my stay was that I had some issues with the reception personnel (especially the girls on duty when I checked in): we were a party of 4 colleagues arriving by train from Italy and going to a conference. At 11 am none of the 2 rooms was ready yet, even if we had asked for an early check-in... (and this is still acceptable, because they might have been fully booked the night before). However, the receptionists promised we would get our rooms by 12 o’ clock, which is the official check-in time. So we waited till 12, but no room ready yet. We kept asking them when our rooms would be ready, and at 12.40 they finally gave us the key to ONE of the two rooms. Only after insisting for a while, they managed to find another room for us.But after giving us the key, they realized it was the wrong room (I think it was one of the apartments in the other building), so they wanted the key back and let us wait some more minutes… by that time, it was 1 pm! As we had to go to a conference, this delay was of course a big issue for us. What is worse, we got no apologies nor smiles from the receptionists: only a very bad attitude, as if we were bothering them with our requests... They even told us that "Check-in 12 pm" means that the rooms will be ready AFTER 12, not AT 12!"
Moreover, they provided no explanations on how to get to our room (it is a big hotel and has separate buildings) and on the hotel services were offered (wifi, breakfast etc)
In conclusion: we were very disappointed with the service, although the hotel itself is ok for business travellers.