Jay A.
Yelp
In searching for a room in Reims, this came up as one of the highest rated hotels, very close to the top hotel which goes for 2x the price per night. Do not be fooled. This is NOTHING like the top rated hotel.
Short version: If your comfortable with a hostel-type experience, this'll do for a night. This is not a value hotel. It is a cheap hotel. Don't confuse the two.
Our room was dark (brown walls, brown carpet). The walls are thin. You can hear your neighbors (and they can hear you), the people in the hall, each clomp on the steps, every door closing, every toilet flushing (more on that later). They warn you that there is no elevator but not that the stairs are narrow. Don't bring big heavy luggage!
We arrived in the evening, and checked in. The staff spoke enough English for that. They gave us a voucher for each night for free glasses of champagne at local restaurants. As soon as we got in the room, my GF wanted to leave. She was uncomfortable with the darkness of the room. She was ready not only to not stay in the room but to get on a train and head back to Paris. I convinced her to stay a night.
This area of town does not have a lot of food choices within walking distance. We went to the restaurant on the first night voucher to find they are not open that night. WTF? We found another place for dinner returned to the hotel around 10. We then found the toilet would not flush. (It would fill to rim then slowly empty.) There is no staff at that time of night, only an emergency number. We did not want to stay awake waiting so we went to bed. My GF slept little due to the noise from the other rooms.
In the morning, we walked the 10 minutes or so to the main part of town. We went to a different hotel, and booked a room there. That room was light and modern. The staff spoke fluent English. It was right in the main part of town with plenty of restaurants nearby.
I walked back to the Azur to check out. Since it was after 10:30am they charged us for 2 nights. They did not ask how our stay was or why we were leaving early. I thought they cut us a break of 20Euros because we left so early but I later received an email saying that was a mistake and they charged me the extra 20.