Citadines République Paris — Hotel in Paris

I wasn't knocked out. We stayed for a week. Location is good, and close to the Metro station, however there are several flights of stairs between the trains and the street. A couple of helpful locals helped get our bags up the Metro stairs. I'd gotten and printed maps of the area, with sufficient magnification to see street names and to get a feel for directions. A 360 gave enough clues to get there. NOTE: there is no large sign identifying the hotel from the street. You can't read the sign from the sidewalk until you are right there. If it weren't for having the actual address, it would have been harder to find.|Overseas flights are overnighters, so you arrive in Paris the next morning. It was at least noon when we arrived at the hotel, well before normal check-in time. I believe i requested early check-in when we made the reservation (thru expedia), and they were able to accommodate us. Good.|The Room. The pictures here are optimistic at best. I'm sure that rooms like them exist on the premises, but this was not our room. The bed was not super comfy, and the pillows left something to be desired. The bathroom was split in two, one room with the toilet (on the far side of the kitchen) and one room with the sink and shower (adjacent to the bed). The kitchen was functional, but the circuit breaker for the hob had been tripped, and we weren't with it enough to look for the breaker panel (on the wall opposite the hob) and reset it. The saute pan was well used, and had lost its seasoning previously, so the morning eggs left quite a residue on the pan, needing to be scoured off. I could swear that i saw that it was air-conditioned, but there were no obvious air inlets, save for one in the toilet room and another in the shower room. Being September, it wasn't roasty-toasty hot, but we were on the 4th floor and could have used some forced air cooling. We had to resort to opening the window.|The area. There are a couple of restaurants directly across the street as well as a Chinese take-out and a doner kebob place on the walk to the hotel. But there are much better pickings if you walk back towards the metro, make a 90-degree left turn at the intersection, and walk a couple of blocks. There is a lively neighborhood there with restaurants, a bakery or three, a supermarket, and a couple of coin-op laundries.|Back to the airport... after the adventure getting there on the metro, we decided it was better to hop a cab to the airport, so we did. Our method is to stay overnight at the Hilton at the airport, and then ride the tram to the terminal. Since our flight was at 0810, this let us get up that much sooner, a definite plus since we figured we needed to be at the airport before 0600. When we caught the cab, it was rush hour in Paris, so i'm sure we got to pay for that, and there were four bags, which i'm sure we were charged for. The cab fare was 100-euros, but it was worth not fighting the stairs in the Metro.|Summary. Would i stay there again? Probably not. We'll spend more on a four-star hotel, maybe one of the Hiltons, where we can stay on...

There is no AC. The room came with a tiny desk fan. I have never experienced this. Not a ceiling fan, not a standing fan, a tiny desk fan with two settings. I had to specially request a standing fan, which was low quality. The fridge did a poor job keeping things chilled, a sentiment that was reflected by other members of my party in separate rooms. Their hydraulic door closers were faulty leading to the sounds of doors slamming throughout the hotel at night. It also led many of the doors being difficult to open unless you "jiggled" the door handle in a special way. The microwave, stove, dishwasher and iron worked well.

The cleaning was poor. When I arrived the place was covered in layers of of dust. Housekeeping cleans every 4 days. During my stay they came twice. The first cleaner did a job so poor it left me feeling uncomfortable. On the second occasion they did a good job.

Front service is also a hit or miss. Some days they were great and exceed expectations, others they were unhelpful. I experienced a severe leg injury and had to seek medical attention during my stay. Something as simple as "we have a wheelchair" wasn't communicated by the front desk. I was only made aware of its existence when a maintenance worker (who I am very grateful towards) saw me hobbling as I made my way to the hospital.

Excellent location. There are great cafes, bars, supermarkets, gyms and more within walking distance.

I ended up staying there for about 12 days. 3 members of my party decided to cut their losses and found other...

I stayed at Citadines Republique in October 2023. Overall a poor experience.

The location of the hotel is fine, it's a lively neighborhood with lots of restaurants and bars. It's not super central in Paris but you know this going into your booking.

We ran into several issues with our stay, first of all the window of our room did not close - allowing in air and noise all day and night. The receptionist tried to help us close the window, unsuccessfully, and told us we could not change rooms that evening.

We were able to move to a new room the following day (only after a lot of back and forth with reception), where at least the windows and doors all closed fully.

They only clean the rooms once a week and the cleanliness standard is low. There were several bugs in our room at various moments (see pictures) - I can understand one spider once in a while, but we had several.

We shared feedback with reception, but continually were told we had to speak to the "chef de reception" who either wasn't there or was "in a meeting." We eventually managed to speak to him on the phone after several requests, but like the receptionists he was unapologetic.

We had some personal issues going on during our stay, which were not their fault at all, but an opportunity for them to show good service and be empathetic with us. Unfortunately they did not take the opportunity.

It's not an expensive hotel - you get what you pay for! If you can afford it,...