John S.
Yelp
The hotel accommodations themselves are fine. Well, they're fine if you like old French hotels without individual bathrooms. The breakfast is all right. So why the low rating? Well, I stayed here with my parents a while back, and the hotel tried to screw us.
Long before we got to Paris, my mom had reserved a room with a normal bed for my parents and a roll-away bed for me. When we arrived, we found that the room was too small to accommodate a roll-away bed. After some argument back and forth, I got my own tiny room on a different floor from the one my parents were staying on. After our three-night stay, the hotel tried to charge us for two separate rooms even though they had initially said that we could all sleep in one room even though there weren't any rooms available that could fit all of us. My mom spent about forty-five minutes arguing with the woman at the front desk, and she (my mom) eventually decided to dispute it with her credit-card company instead.
My parents ended up staying at the hotel again when they returned to Paris after touring around Europe. This time, the hotel had doubled its rates because the World Cup was going on at the time. My mom argued this as well, as this was not what she had agreed to months before. After haggling back and forth with her credit-card company, she eventually got what she had agreed to and a little bit more--she wasn't charged at all for one of the nights my parents stayed at the hotel, and something else was thrown in as well.
The moral of the story? My mom is an expert at disputing unfair charges, and she's tenacious. You don't want to argue with her. Now that she's retired, she has all the time in the world to make your pathetic deceitful life a living hell, so don't even try to charge her for something she didn't buy or change the terms of a contract after the fact.
But the hotel itself is nice. I had a weird experience of watching what I believe was a Spanish TV show (as in, from Spain) that showed a woman in the window of a multistory building. The funny thing was the TV was right next to the window, and I had a similar view of a man in the window of the multistory building across the alley.
The other moral of the story is to charge things like hotel stays on credit cards, especially if you have to deal with surly French people who don't understand the concept of hospitality or customer service.