Steve W.
Yelp
We stayed in the Amelie room on the top floor for six nights to kick off our honeymoon. What a wonderful view! We loved sitting outside on the stroke of the hour before bedtime watching the Eiffel Tower sparkle beyond the lights of the Arc. We also love grabbing food, bringing it back to the room, and eating it out on the balcony. Air conditioning and hot water work great and kick in quickly. In-room safe is super easy to use.
Lobby staff all speak English and are super accommodating. Every employee is friendly, and they even remembered that it was our honeymoon. Oh, but if you don't tell them specifically not to enter your room, they'll clean it even if you leave the Do Not Disturb sign up. Free WiFi. Bed is pretty nice. Entire hotel is very clean.
The lift is a little small, but it hasn't broken down once while we were here. It does stop at the floor below and you have to take about 16 steps to the 8th floor, but it's not that bad and I wish I'd just brought our luggage up myself when we got here.
One quirky thing about this suite is that it does not have a shower with shower head. It has a bathtub in the middle of the bathroom with a nozzle you have to hold by hand. I knew about the bathtub without the shower based on other reviews and pictures on TripAdvisor, so while it was a hassle for my wife at times (I actually liked it because I never take baths back home), I didn't mind it and we both knew about it coming in.
The walls ARE thin. This hasn't really been an issue for us until this morning when our neighbors had guests knocking at 8am and they've been up and about ever since. FYI, as you sleep in the Amelie room, your head is on the opposite side of the wall from the Marie Apartment (I think the couch area). Their door is a couple feet from yours, so when they close their door, it does make a bit of noise. You can hear water running and phones ringing next door as well.
Basically, know what to expect before you get here and it'll be fine. I literally told my wife "Well, it seems they did a really good job turning an old apartment building into a pretty nice hotel." Me, I actually like being a little bit away from all the tourists. And no joke, we were deciding between this room and a standard room at a very highly rated hotel that would've been smaller with no view, but which would have come complete with a rainfall shower, larger screen tv, spa tub, and better technologies, top notch shower/shampoo/etc. In the end, I purposely opted for the view plus more space. But I suppose if audio privacy, peace and quiet, and the ability to get your superfreak on without anybody bothering anybody are at the top of your priority list, you should stay elsewhere. I personally just leave the TV on (usually CNN, although there are a few UK channels in English as well) to drown out the noise from other rooms.
Other stuff: There's a Metro stop about 100 yards away (with a McD's next to it) and an RER stop about 200 yards away. There's a real nice bakery just across the street north of the hotel which has baguettes, pastries, salads, and sandwiches. We became fond of the Fromagerie on the same corner as the bakery. It's great for getting meats and cheeses for your bread or grabbing juice, water, etc. (We've yet to actually partake in the 20 euro breakfast at the hotel.) There's also a wine store across the street. Within a few blocks of the hotel there is fast food, bistros, restaurants (French, Italian, Thai, Chinese, Moroccan off the top of my head), a fruit store, pharmacy, etc.