Hôtel Clarisse — Hotel in Paris

If you are an insomniac, who likes to live on the edge and fancy a ghetto tour, getting high and enjoy gang warfare to a soundtrack of drum and bass, this is your place!

This was booked as an anniversary treat, it turned into a horror story

The area is a ghetto for Nigerian and African people, they shout at each other through out the day and night. They must be very hard of hearing as they could only listen to drum and bass at top volume, so much so the windows of our room vibrated!

I'm 6ft 3 with a rugby build, I felt intimidated in the area, hoards of young men crowd the streets yelling at each other. Not a single day went by without us being offered drugs from random strangers.

There is bugger all to do in the area, the nearest bar is two blocks away and the nearest cafe is a kebab place. The local tram stop is opposite and goes frequently, however it seems to house the local homeless that just ride up and down, as well as the women who have no control over their children. Not once did we not use the tram without a urine smelling homeless person and a couple of screaming children.

The police are armed and seem to patrol the place in packs.

Anyway, back to the hotel, it's dated but clean(ish), they forgot to service the room a couple of times. The hotel apologised and gave us replacement towels. Towards the end of our stay there, when things had got really bad (no air conditioning, open windows and screaming youth along with drum and bass playing until 4am!) the staff were absent a lot of the time.

We left early, it was meant to be a special romantic holiday and if we'd have stayed longer it would have ended in divorce! We waited around receiption to check out but nobody showed up, so we just left our key behind the receiption and left.

We booked into the gorgeous Novotel just near the Effiel Tower, the receptionist felt sorry for us, and had a look of abject terror when we said where we stayed, if she'd had been wearing pearls, she would have clutched them! We got upgraded to an executive suite with a free mini bar and a bottle of wine to enjoy on the roof top bar on our...

The hotel was mostly clean, the furniture was ok, the bathroom was clean.||The receptionist was very rude. Me and my friend were standing in front of the closed door with our suitcases. He saw us, unlocked the door and immediately returned to his desk. He did not even open the door for us and our very heavy suitcases.||The extremely small and outdated lift did not reach all the way to our floor, so we had to carry our heavy suitcases the rest of the stairs.||When we came into the room, it was so tiny that we could not open our suitcases fully or walk around the bed next to each other. One person always had to wait in one corner of the room while the other person moved around. ||The tap in the bathroom was constantly dropping, when we entered the room the sink in the bathroom was filled with water and there was no way to empty it because the drain was firmly closed. We called the receptionist, he said he would have someone over to fix it in the morning and until then we could use the sink without any problems as it would not overflow because of the other drain (a bit higher in the sink). We said that would not be acceptable (especially as we only stayed one night) and asked if he had another room. He said the hotel was fully booked. He then came with a screwdriver and tried to fix the sink himself. He finally removed the drain plug and the water could flow out of the sink again. He left it like that. We asked about some small compensation, he said no.||Furthermore, the area was very shady with a military police operation happening next door as we arrived around 21:30 in the evening. ||The door of the bathroom was partially cracked and unfortunately the room door could not be locked from the inside.||I will never stay in this...

We stayed for five nights (Tue to Sat nights) in late September, in one room for four people. Overall our stay was good: the hotel and room felt clean and modern, the staff were thoroughly friendly and spoke English, and the hotel is located just a few minutes' walk from the T3a tramway and small shops (bakeries, restaurants, laundries, a grocery). I was particularly impressed by the central air conditioning, which kept the room nice and cool at night while barely making any noise, as the control panel allows to adjust both temperature and fan power.

However, the room for four adults was cramped - there was hardly any space to walk around, or between the beds, or even to access the beds. One mattress even blocks one of the windows, so that you need to temporarily lift the mattress in order to open the window. In my opinion, this is a reasonable tradeoff for the price and location.

A few other minor complaints. First, the minibar fridge light seems to activate during the night, which is annoying but can be blocked by blankets or luggage. Second, there are not many electrical outlets in the room. Finally, there is inadequate space to hang towels for reuse (as the hotel suggests to do): only one hook in the bathroom, no hooks in the bedroom, and the cleaning staff always shuts the closet door (so anything hanging inside...