Kevin E.
Yelp
There is very little to complain about with this hotel, and when I mean little, I mean very little. The staff is incredible, the breakfast is stunning, the rooms are comfortable, and the location is perfect, literally just around the corner from the Notre Dame cathedral. But I can complain about one thing, but I'm going to save that for the last.
The first thing I want to compliment is the staff. They went out of their way to make us comfortable. We left LAX at 2:30 pm and arrived in Paris at 9:30 am. Being unable to sleep on the plane, you can imagine how tired we were when we arrived at the hotel. Our room wasn't ready, of course, but they were so generous to hold our luggage and they gave us plenty of ideas close by to pass our time until the room was ready for us. They even offered us a cappuccino. I can't say enough about the staff.
I typically don't eat breakfast buffets. I get all germ weird seeing all those hands near the food and people breathing and coughing all over everything. But I loved this one. First of all, we were there just as they were bringing out the food, so that helped. But the food was incredible. They had easily the best baguettes that I have ever eaten in my life. The meats and cheeses were of high quality. I was in heaven. My wife was as well with the amazing croissants, and the creamy scrambled eggs sent me to another world. It was a great, calm, relaxing start to the day each day we stayed.
The location was amazing. It was close to a lot, and what we couldn't (or didn't want to) walk to, there is a river taxi called Batobus that you can get on near the Notre Dame and take the Seine all over the city to the Eiffel Tower, the Champs Elysees, the Louvre, etc. It was a great resource less than a five-minute walk from the hotel.
There is one issue though, but it really isn't the hotel's fault, which is why I am not taking any stars away. It was HOT in Paris and our hotel room was on two floors. The small room air conditioner was on the second floor, and it didn't ever really cool down the upstairs, let alone the downstairs. The little fan downstairs just didn't suffice, and the ceiling fan upstairs didn't work. It made the room miserable. But again, that's Europe for you.
Overall, it's an amazing, cheerful hotel. Just go in December.