Premiere Classe Montreuil — Hotel in Bobigny

First things first, you've got to remember you get what you pay for and with this hotel, nothing sings more true. It is the cheapest in the area and the reasons I'll tell you why.

Let's start with the positives, the staff are helpful, it's easy to find and the area is quiet enough for a good night's sleep. It's plain sailing in a downhill fashion from here however.

As you come off the ring road and squirrel your way through the authentic outer Paris experience of extremely run down government apartment blocks and heavy industrial buildings adorned with enough graffitti it must add structural integrity at this point; you're greeted with potholes larger than most small hatchbacks and a slip road so dense with trucks you feel you've taken a wrong turn into an inner city shipping yard. You haven't, you're on the right track.

As you continue through an extremely run down neighbourhood with the road condition growing ever worse you start to genuinely feel uneasy that your savvy saving wasn't quite the best choice, you certainly don't feel safe as you finally approach the large, thick prison gates of the hotel that requires a code you weren't sent. Once you're in the compound, you breathe a light sigh of relief as you know your car is at least a tiny bit safer from the almost guaranteed crime that would otherwise be inflicted upon a foreign plated car.

You waltz in, feeling optimistic but you're greeted by a waft of eau de toilet, literally. I suppose the scent is more weed, feaces and the aroma of a certain grade of foot cheese. You get to the desk, you're told your safe parking is an extra 14 Euros and as the only other option is guaranteed crime and it'd be like sacrificing your child to the hoardes of zombies in The Walking Dead, you begrudgingly pay up.

You walk up the stairs of what can only be described as a carpeted prison, it's efficient but certainly lacks a safe vibe and somehow the smell manages to intensify to an almost sauna-like thickness you can bite into. You enter your box room to be greeted by, to be fair, a comfy double bed with a child's bunk bed above with not enough space to sit upright for even the smallest of individuals. You're given one pillow that resembles a loose empty sack of cotton balls that you will not be able to make comfy. We opted for the en-suite, hose down plastic bathroom which is not big enough to actually turn around in let alone get yourself effectively clean. Sitting down onto the toilet with the door closed is like trying to mount a bull at a rodeo with less dignity.

To conclude then, it's a place to rest your weary head and let's face it, you don't come to Paris to sit in your hotel room. It's cheap, certainly amongst the cheapest and you don't have to share a dormitory with backpacking Dave and Terry with extremely questionable hygiene. You can also defecate in peace.

To round this up, I'll re-iterate what I started with; you're certainly reminded that you get what you pay for when you come to an establishment like this but you've got to embrace it. If your pockets 'ain't fat you better...

Rooms were clean but basic which was fine but the decor, tiny room and twxtured artex walls did give a vibe of prison cell! Room was small but sufficient for 2, but our room was a room for 3 and one more person in there would be very overcrowded. There was 1 towel in the room, we asked and got 2 more. There was only 1 very soft and sad looking pillow but we were told they could not give us another. Room were clean but smelled musty and the communal hall areas smelled like stinky trainers! The entrance and reception was sparce and bleak. This hotel is more like a hostel with private rooms than a hotel| We stayed Sun-Tues and it was quiet and beds were comfortable so we slept well. Two electrical plugs in our room had no covers so could not be used and the bathroom door didn't close properly. The vending machine had no bottles of water and room got quite stuffy and hot despite the window open.||The area isn't the most charming. We were on our guard walking home from the metro night one and got a cab night two. There is a security gate to enter and you need a code which is changed daily which does not bode well for the safety of the area. Its about 15 mins from metro station. It is on line 9 which serves the main tourist attractions without changing (Eiffel Tower, Champs Elysee, Larc du Triomph) but it is down a dark street from the hotel so at night I would recommend a bus (115) from the metro or a taxi.||Would I recommend this hotel? Not especially. But it is passable if you want a cheap...

We went in this hotel with 2 friends for vacation. First of all the location of the hotel is a little bit far away from the noise of Paris (30 min from Eiffel tower by metro,(10 minutes from Louvre). The metro station is 13 minutes from the hotel. || Thats one reason for the cheap price.||||The other reasons are that the rooms and bathroom are really small! Onpy big enough to fit the beds, thats all. Bathroom was inconvenient aswell. Just 1.5m² to take a shower and wash all of the bathroom. And the worst thing was that we couldnt take a proper shower, as the water didnt stop changing from boiling hot, to freezing cold in a matter of seconds without even touching anything, nonstop. I've never seen somethinglike this. ||||I didnt like that we didnt have a plug in for our phones to charge next to our beds, but we had to get up. || On the second day, we had to ask for the towel, as we were 3 and got only 2 towels.||||The black girl in the reception was really kind and helpful. I couldnt say the same thing about a guy at night, when we asked for some information, he wasnt present in his office, he came to help us and immediately left back in to another room. But because i needed something else i called him again saying sorry from the entrance and i heard a bored and heavy "uuuugggghhhh" as if we wasted his hole life in those 2 minutes. ||||||The only reason to come here is if you want only a place to sleep, and you dont mind taking at least 20 minutes trying to...