Le Metropolitan, Paris Tour Eiffel, a Tribute Portfolio Hotel

THIS TIME I HOPE MY POST IS NOT DELETED!

I seldom post a review, even if the experience was not good, but this experience has been of such nature that i had to:

to begin with, the staff didn't check my SPG profile for my preferences, and allocated a room which was exactly what I ask for not to have (i asked for a room not close to an elevator, but they allocated me a room next to the very noisy elevator, you could hear the thing go up and down constantly)! in a dry response, they told me that th room had been pre-arranged by another person and only 1 other room was davalaiable now (at the other side of that elevator)! The front desk staff told me not to worry and they would bring me my key up for my new room. after more than 1 hour, nothing received... to notice that the person who promised this had bluntly forgotten.

The rooms are extremely small (even for Paris). There is no desk to put a computer on, no outlets next to the bed, so I'm not sure where the hotel designer expects business people to check mail from.

the only chair was placed right in front of the closet (there was indeed no other place to put the chair given the small room), which made one to have to perform acrobatics to access your clothes in the wardrobe of which the lower drawer could only open 10 cm / 4 inches.

At the Concierge (or check in clerk since there is no concierge) I asked for a trendy, modern restaurant, but he decided that a cheap French bistro was a better option for me since he knew the owner.

The SOUNDPROOFING(OR LACK OF it) is extremely bad. Since at night the garbage is collected (about 100m away), the hotel believes that guests don't need a good sleep and could be awake in the middle of the night since they put in windows that don't keep the sound out. when a group of partying people came back at 4AM in the next room, again the same (so the walls aren't any better).

After a bad night, I hoped for a refreshing shower... in the open plan bathroom (no shower door, so the complete bathroom floods). Since there is NO towel rail, the only place to put a towel close to the shower is on the floor, so not hard to guess how wet the towel was after the flooding. After showering, the only way to use the hairdryer (regular home hair dryer of which the cable was fixed to the wall) was to stand with your feet in the water... An electrocution accident waiting to happen. Since the floor floods by design, you can't use the toilet anymore after using the shower and being dressed unless you like wet feet.

Breakfast wasn't any better when I sat down a waiter started with throwing (literally) a basked of bread on my table before taking my order - maybe they don't want customers like me that don't eat bread.. I ordered yoghurt and fruit salad. I got the yoghurt it a tiny small jar with a spoon which was bigger than the jar opening, the fruit salad was 50% sugar water with some very simple fruit thrown in it (apple, orange with 3 grapes). There were only 5 tables in use for 2 waiters, but they were so busy talking to each other that it took 15 minutes to get my bill.

when at check-out they asked how my stay was, they didn't even bother to ask why on my response "not very good"....