Eden Lodge Paris — Hotel in Paris

Having had experiences with other establishments/hotels in the ‘I Love Eco Hotels’ Chain and by the looks of photos and the reviews on booking.com made for this Eden Lodge then I will have to say that the disappointment is quite high.||||The entrance is a large port from the street with a small sign on the wall next to the port. We stood outside for about 20 minutes before someone opened the doors for us. We had tried to call several times but no one was answering the phone. We tried to buzz on the door communication button but no one responded.||||From the photos it looks like you have this large beautiful garden space with nice places to sit outside, in reality its a small backyard garden with a minimum maintenance and not very inviting to use the garden nor the tables and chairs.||||The reception is a small room, outside the premises. Check-in was fine but it is not really a reception as such. The people handling the lodge seems to be living in separate building in the courtyard next to the lodge, appears to be a collective but I do not know for sure. It is surely not handled nor monitored by professionals more like a private guest home style.||||We got our keys and were let into the lodge which starts with a hall and stairs up towards our room. The first thing we noticed was the insane heat, basically this is a wooden build structure with glass windows as a roof, this creates a sauna like atmosphere. In compensation they had placed some sort of cold aired ventilator on top of the stairs with a short tube going out from it. So while the machine was creating a very light breeze of fresh air, the tube would be producing heat and the tube was about half a meter laying in the same room so imagine the effect of this machine which was running all day and making loud noise. This machine was standing about 3 meters from our room entrance.||||The room itself seemed ok, just do not keep the windows open, even if you are warm and trust me you will be warm, our room was boiling hot when we arrived. If you open the window you will be invaded by mosquitoes and they are aggressive! Room temperature when we arrived was 29.9 degrees and on the second day it was 30 degrees. There is an expensive dyson ventilator in the room but you can let it run all day and little will it change since it is not designed as an air-conditioner. No options whatsoever to lower the temperatures in the room.||||Also in the room we could as a minimum count two large spiders, the lack of attention is impressive.||||We were working from the kitchen room in the afternoon, this is the room where they also serve breakfast. By the look of the food stored in the fridges you could clearly tell that the maintenance of the place is left a bit to its own. You can have low or high standards when it comes to food but my logic sense tells me that storing food is done with care not by placing one plate of something wrapped over with cellophane on top of another dish of cheeses also wrapped in cellophane. There were other half opened package of food in the fridge. We had breakfast included but decided to walk 300-400 meter up a street to an organic store and buy our own breakfast and store that in the room mini-fridge. ||||Coffee in capsules, both bio and fairtrade but wrapped in plastic containers and who really drinks coffee out of capsules in 2019??…people are looking for real coffee nowadays, freshly brewed.||||Despite taking care of our own breakfast, we went down around 8AM to take a tea and found no one there, nothing prepared and no staff anywhere. It seemed that the coffee machine was broken too. Good thing we did not rely on this place for the breakfast that I repeat was included. Approximative the staff presence in general.||||The bathroom is half part walk-in shower and half part zink and mirror. Sharing the same floor which eventually will flood over to the side of the zink and mirror. Also there is no ventilation so expect steam in your room. ||||All in all this is not the place for us, despite caring a lot about the environment, rooms are sold for 200-300 EUR per night. If you sell rooms at those prices you are obliged to maintain a certain standard, maintenance of premises inside and outside as well as food preservation at a much different level.||||Comparing this place to some of the amazing properties under the ‘I love eco hotels’ then we are talking worlds and decades a part.||||I would not recommend this lodge and I will definitely not return, simply not worth the money, there is sooo much to improve in ethical standards, aesthetics, maintenance and staff management.||||Absolutely stunning what you can get away with in the name of ECO! You can be as sustainable build as you want but if nothing else is there, then I suggest to use it as a private home and not a lodge or expensive B&B. On booking.com they are described as the only Parisian LUXURY ecolodge.||||This is place here is a private cottage house, nothing else.||||I’m giving the lodge the low score because the impression they give you from the online images and description and the expectations we had to this place was far from being realized. We also based our expectation on the previous ‘I love ECO hotels’ experiences. ||||We bear our responsibility in booking a place not suitable for our needs despite having a shared vision, therefore 2...

Having had experiences with other establishments/hotels in the ‘I Love Eco Hotels’ Chain and by the looks of photos and the reviews on booking.com made for this Eden Lodge then I will have to say that the disappointment is quite high.||||The entrance is a large port from the street with a small sign on the wall next to the port. We stood outside for about 20 minutes before someone opened the doors for us. We had tried to call several times but no one was answering the phone. We tried to buzz on the door communication button but no one responded.||||From the photos it looks like you have this large beautiful garden space with nice places to sit outside, in reality its a small backyard garden with a minimum maintenance and not very inviting to use the garden nor the tables and chairs.||||The reception is a small room, outside the premises. Check-in was fine but it is not really a reception as such. The people handling the lodge seems to be living in separate building in the courtyard next to the lodge, appears to be a collective but I do not know for sure. It is surely not handled nor monitored by professionals more like a private guest home style.||||We got our keys and were let into the lodge which starts with a hall and stairs up towards our room. The first thing we noticed was the insane heat, basically this is a wooden build structure with glass windows as a roof, this creates a sauna like atmosphere. In compensation they had placed some sort of cold aired ventilator on top of the stairs with a short tube going out from it. So while the machine was creating a very light breeze of fresh air, the tube would be producing heat and the tube was about half a meter laying in the same room so imagine the effect of this machine which was running all day and making loud noise. This machine was standing about 3 meters from our room entrance.||||The room itself seemed ok, just do not keep the windows open, even if you are warm and trust me you will be warm, our room was boiling hot when we arrived. If you open the window you will be invaded by mosquitoes and they are aggressive! Room temperature when we arrived was 29.9 degrees and on the second day it was 30 degrees. There is an expensive dyson ventilator in the room but you can let it run all day and little will it change since it is not designed as an air-conditioner. No options whatsoever to lower the temperatures in the room.||||Also in the room we could as a minimum count two large spiders, the lack of attention is impressive.||||We were working from the kitchen room in the afternoon, this is the room where they also serve breakfast. By the look of the food stored in the fridges you could clearly tell that the maintenance of the place is left a bit to its own. You can have low or high standards when it comes to food but my logic sense tells me that storing food is done with care not by placing one plate of something wrapped over with cellophane on top of another dish of cheeses also wrapped in cellophane. There were other half opened package of food in the fridge. We had breakfast included but decided to walk 300-400 meter up a street to an organic store and buy our own breakfast and store that in the room mini-fridge. ||||Coffee in capsules, both bio and fairtrade but wrapped in plastic containers and who really drinks coffee out of capsules in 2019??…people are looking for real coffee nowadays, freshly brewed.||||Despite taking care of our own breakfast, we went down around 8AM to take a tea and found no one there, nothing prepared and no staff anywhere. It seemed that the coffee machine was broken too. Good thing we did not rely on this place for the breakfast that I repeat was included. Approximative the staff presence in general.||||The bathroom is half part walk-in shower and half part zink and mirror. Sharing the same floor which eventually will flood over to the side of the zink and mirror. Also there is no ventilation so expect steam in your room. ||||All in all this is not the place for us, despite caring a lot about the environment, rooms are sold for 200-300 EUR per night. If you sell rooms at those prices you are obliged to maintain a certain standard, maintenance of premises inside and outside as well as food preservation at a much different level.||||Comparing this place to some of the amazing properties under the ‘I love eco hotels’ then we are talking worlds and decades a part.||||I would not recommend this lodge and I will definitely not return, simply not worth the money, there is sooo much to improve in ethical standards, aesthetics, maintenance and staff management.||||Absolutely stunning what you can get away with in the name of ECO! You can be as sustainable build as you want but if nothing else is there, then I suggest to use it as a private home and not a lodge or expensive B&B. On booking.com they are described as the only Parisian LUXURY ecolodge.||||This is place here is a private cottage house, nothing else.||||I’m giving the lodge the low score because the impression they give you from the online images and description and the expectations we had to this place was far from being realized. We also based our expectation on the previous ‘I love ECO hotels’ experiences. ||||We bear our responsibility in booking a place not suitable for our needs despite having a shared vision, therefore 2...

We decided to stay one night at this ‘hotel’ at the end of a trip to Paris because of the reviews, and it’s relative closeness to the Gare de Lyon, which we arrived to by TGV.||||First thing to note: The hotel has no cooling system, so for stays in the summer when temperatures can be in the 30s, it’s not your best bet. The air in the upstairs common area was stuffy and hot. Our room was better because we could open the large floor to ceiling window, but there are lots of mosquitos (because of a dank, and dirty small pool / tub in the front yard ) and all the bees on the property, so opening windows is not a good option. The Dyson ventilator in the room doesn’t help- I don’t believe it’s a fan, maybe an air purifier?||||The property has no sign outside, and it’s easy to miss if you’re looking for a sign. Focus on finding red doors and the building number. To enter the property you go through a series of doors, all of which are opened by code. You must have a code to enter the doors and the code was emailed to us right before our stay. ||||It is situated in the middle of a residential area, flanked by some residential mid-size apartment buildings with which it shares its entrance and some type of house on the right with which it shares its court yard.||||There are no elevators, so best to leave the heavy luggage at home. We got help from the receptionist to carry our bags up, but there was no one in the office the following day and due to a shoulder injury getting the bags down was challenging. When we were leaving at 9:30 am we didn’t know what to do with the room key as there was no one around, so we called the hotels main number and seemed to have woken someone up. ||||The room was large and nicely decorated, and very clean, the bed was comfortable. There is a mini fridge stocked with fruit juices. There’s a safe deposit box. ||||The breakfast was set out in the morning, ||and coffee was ready. There were fruits, croissants, bread, ham, cheese, yogurt and it was all quite good.||||All in all we found it to be interesting and different but not sure we...