Fantastic location with great views on Tour Eiffel (and the half of Paris next to it).
Exquisite interiors.
Great restaurants (Monsieur Bleu for example) of the Tokyo pavillion in 100 m from the hotel.
All the rest has some small peculiarities.
After discussing an hour of the cleaning with the manager, the next day we did not have the cleaning at all until I called. (No, we did not have any sign left on the door like your manager imagined later).
When we asked a concierge to book a taxi to Louvre, he did, but didn’t say Louvre is closed on Tuesdays. Big thank you shoutout to concierge after this nice trip, with an advice to learn well the working hours of the museum number 1 in Paris.
Another time we asked the concierge to advise us a good restaurant where we would walk for 20 minutes (to enjoy Paris), and we were told to go to a bistro just behind the corner. That’s funny, I mean no problem for us to use Google maps, but why not just give a proper answer.
Hammams are totally useless, why won’t you build a good sauna instead. Where a wife can talk to her husband, instead of separated sitting in those ‘hammam’ corners that feel like wardrobes. (Look how well the area is done at Le Damantin Paris to compare).
To get to hammam and pool you need to dress up to go past the lobby. It’s impossible to get there dressed for swimming, no. So “spa” does not have a relaxing mode. It’s not relaxing to dress up to jump into a bath in your room after swimming. By the way there’s no bag for spa visits in the room to bring back your wet swimming suit, you’ll have to go past the lobby having your wet bikini in your hand.
When you get out from the warm hammam, you’re right in the cold wind from the air condition. Another relaxing experience. You can’t jump out of it, you have to open the doors of the box with your clothes. With the code. Don’t forget it, or you’ll freeze right there, wet and relaxed forever. (I got a running nose the next day.)
Breakfast (rather mediocre) cost €124 for two. I mean, its okay if you have breakfast like in Waldorf Astoria Versailles, but then you need to pump the skills of your chef + have a bit more of an atmosphere. By the way I would recommend to know the provider of viennoiserie in Astoria, they have the best ever pains au raisin (which you said you did not have at all, although they were on the neighbour table… it was pain to see that pain au raisin… the next day though it turned out that it was horrible anyways so okay don’t miss it much).
The in room dining is okay, although I would not say it’s worth ordering unless you’re in between the hours of eating in Monsieur Bleu.
By moving from the petit dej to the room and then to spa you’ll be eventually falling out of wifi, you will have to change it manually. This becomes crucial when you realize there’s bad coverage due to thick walls.
Overall, I found the hotel too pretentious for this kind of things. The staff is dancing around always excessively polite and ready to help, but the end feeling is like “why?” - shouldn’t they just also be more human to match the careless level of the rest of the hotel.
Nevetheless it was fun, and we’re here for fun, aren’t we.
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