Hôtel du Centre - hôtel Paris Amore — Hotel in Paris

Before I morph into a Negative Nancy let me get the positives out of the way; the only good things about this hotel are the convenient location and English speaking staff.||||Now let's get down to business. Just outside the hotel and at any hour of the day you will be disappointed to discover a number of men who have spilt out from the neighbouring bar and onto the filthy street. Their favourite pastime being loitering by the hotel entrance, glaring into peoples' eyes with hostility, smoking and oogling females. Being two girls in our early twenties visiting a foreign country with no French, we were NOT impressed and were in fact intimidated by them. We could not understand their slurs or comments. That being said, there were one or two men working there who had some respect, it seemed to only be the cavemen frequenting the establishment who lacked it. ||||The interior of the hotel is a joke. Sadly, this joke is far from funny. I took the liberty of filming the ascent to our room and seeing as I can't upload videos, I have uploaded screenshots from said video for your viewing pleasure. You're welcome. There is no lobby, only a staircase. Yes, that also means there is no lift for lazy people like me and my ilk. I'll make it clear, you literally open the hotel door (whilst praying that none of the loitering scallywags follow you in), get onto the stairs so you can shut the door behind you and walk up the first set of steps to find the (very nice and friendly) receptionist seated in a cupboard. Yes, a cupboard. After checking in you can then continue up even more tight and winding stairs (as the lights turn themselves off halfway up) to find your room. If you have huge suitcases this is not a simple task. There is no room to manoeuvre.||||I know many Brits complain about restrictive health and safety procedures but once you stay one night in this hotel you will be thankful for the regulations back home. To be blunt, there is no fire escape unless you count your window. Good luck and have fun.||||The hotel is NOT staffed 24hrs a day and you are truly left to your own devices from about 4/5pm-10am. I've never heard of a hotel without staff and even when the receptionist is in, you won't be heard if you need help from the 5th floor. If there's an emergency or you need to complain about your noisy neighbours fighting, slamming the toilet seat down and essentially robbing you of your sleep like they did us, you are on your own. As you should have gathered, the walls are paper thin. There was even a man upstairs stamping around his room in the early hours of the morning; perhaps he thought he was an elephant. As he stomped from one end of the room to another, our light fitting rattled uncontrollably which was frightening; we were terrified he would come through the ceiling and crush us!||||The road outside the hotel is loud even through to the early hours. Our room was hot but we couldn't open the window lest we let in even more noise from cars and mopeds. Furthermore, how could I ignore the men from the bar next door sitting in the street having a nice loud chinwag at 2am? "A chinwag audible from the 5th floor", you ask? Yes, believe it.||||A combination of reasons led us to request a change of rooms. Our first room (14) had a leaking pipe in the bathroom with a bowl underneath it collecting water. We even managed to knock the bowl over and flood the bathroom floor. Mopping wasn't a simple task seeing as the towels provided are just big enough to shield you from your armpits to the very tops of your thighs. The sheets had their hairs on them. There were about three hairs of various lengths and differing degrees of curl. We had to turn the sheet over to sleep on (what we had to convince ourselves was) the "clean side" and escape the pubes. It is clear the sheets do not get changed here, they only make the bed when they come to "clean the room". Even in our second room (11) there was a mark on the sheets which remained over a period of two days - even after the room had been "cleaned" and the bed had been made. Nice psychological tricks to make you think some cleaning has actually been done!||||We were not amused by the bathrooms in this hotel either. They are actually miniscule. I had to sit sideways on the toilet when the shutter was pulled over. The shutter did not slide smoothly (it didn't even shut at all in 14), they rattle (so if you need to pee while another is sleeping, don't make the mistake of thinking you need privacy or they'll wake!). ||||Another factor that made is request a room change was the shower. 14's was laced with mould and the door lets water out onto the floor. The shower attachment is a bloody shambles. The pressure is terrible and it produces a dribble. There was also a random stream of water coming out of the side of the head!||||The TV in 14 had obviously commited suicide as a result of its depressing living conditions. It was so high up we could barely even reach the buttons to attempt to resuscitate it.||||Like a fool I brought some herbal tea sachets with me but don't make the mistake of thinking you'll be provided with cups or a kettle. I felt lucky to even had a hanger. A wire hanger, might I add.||||The sinks are so small I couldn't even wash my face properly. There is a shelf right above it and I attempted to wedge my head between the shelf and the sink to splash water on my face but it just wasn't happening. I genuinely resorted to washing my face out of the window with some bottled water. Lord knows who witnessed me do that but it had to be done. Room 14 was so nasty we even resorted to going a day without showering before we complained and got switched to room 11.||||Questionably, both rooms we stayed in had an awful, sour stench which was a cocktail of ungodly smell was cigarettes. Strangely enough, when the hotel room was "cleaned" the smell intensified. It was so cloying we had to air the room for hours.||||If only I hadn't been stupid enough to think previous reviewers were exaggerating , I wouldn't have booked this placr and would have HAPPILY paid an extra 100 to retain some of my waning sanity.||||By the way, I'd like to propose a boycott of the "tabac" two doors down. The moody individual working there is incredibly rude and claims to have no English even though he understood me perfectly and then proceeded to respond in fluent Anglais. Lol. Needless to say I bought the...

This hotel was appaling, one star is just being too generous. I went for a few days with my friend, we are both females in our early 20s. When we got to the hotel we were given the last room (only 14 rooms) the flight of stairs is steep, no lift...so you must be careful. The staff were kind enough to carry our luggage to our rooms, however if you had a large suitcase I genuinely wouldnt know how it would get up the stairs as you can just about walk up them let alone carry a suitcase. ||There is no lobby area, the desk area is in the corner the size of a regular small cuboard lets say one person can only fit in there. ||The rooms- the rooms are tiny, I shall upload pictures. I wasnt expecting the place to be great or anything but it really was appaling. For example you absolutely cannot move in the 'bathroom'- no space to manouvere, the pipe under the sink was leaking it looked unhygenic in the room and the so called bathroom. ||The rooms stunk of cigarettes no matter how much you aired the room the smell was sunk into the matress and pillows. Sheets werent clean i found hairs inside the bed (eww). ||Negatives about the location is that there is a bar next door which is full of men so its really isnt comfortable for two girls in a location next to a social mens club. ||Also, the noise at night from the main street is too much, you can hear the vehicles on the road and the bar next door seemed to be open till the early hours of the morning so it was quite loud.||Pros:||The location is good as it is easily accessible to Champs de Elysees by the metro and other places, and the metro is round the corner||Also the woman working there at the desk is very friendly and helpful. ||||And oh, dont expect there to be a kettle or a mini fridge, mirror or anything like that because it's just asking for too much. It literally is just a bed with a window with a small table and a mini tv (which in our first room wasnt working, no surprise). ||||We asked to change rooms due to the room being so far up and the broken leaking pipe in the bathroom as well as the bathroom door didnt close let alone lock! ...so we got transfered to room 11.|| The walls in the rooms are very thin so you can hear a conversation going on in the other room. One night me and my friend could not sleep till 5am although we were very tired from a long day due to the loudness coming from outside and the people in the room next to us and from upstairs where you can hear them walking every step. ||At the time of the booking we thought we wouldnt have minded being in this hotel as we were just going be in the room just to sleep however i would have been happy to pay an extra 100? so i could at least be comfertable in my staying. And the sink in the bathroom is tiny and the shelf above it doesnt allow u to wash your face or brush your teeth which you are forced to do in the shower. The rooms were not clean, disgusting in fact, and as a non smoker and my friend being athsmatic and having breathing problems this was TERRIBLE to the extent I was almost convinced we were going to catch some kind of fleas or something. The sheets needed to be washed or even better thrown away and be replaced by new sheets. Also, the last persons shower gel product was in there, showing that theres no routine cleaning. ||In conclusion I wouldnt...

If only I could give it a 0. First of all the pictures are stolen from another hotel, they are not what the hotel actually looks like. We didn’t mind at first and thought for a cheap price, it will be fine for the night. ||||We got into bed around 1am and me and my partner were falling asleep. We kept hearing rustling in one of our bags, but we tried to ignore it and fall asleep. At one point I put my head up to look and something ran out of the bag. My boyfriend rang the reception and he came to the room. He said from the 5 years he has worked there, there has never been mice. He tried to convince us that we were making it up and there wasn’t anything there. He tied the bag up where the noise was coming from and placed it on top of the cupboards and said that will be fine, and then left. 10 minutes on and we can still hear rustling in the bag so we called him up again. He opened up the bag, which had sealed packs of super noodles in and the super noodle pack had been opened, he looked through the whole bag and said nothing was there. I then said the noodle bag was closed and it had a big tear on it, he then tried to say that a mouse couldn’t have done that, pulled a pack of noodles out of the bag and then there it was, the mouse flung out and ran off. I was MORTIFIED. ||||He then moved us to another room, but we could still hear scratching. We didn’t get to sleep until 5am. In the morning the man had left and there was a different gentleman there, we asked him to come up to the room with us whilst we got our stuff out, just in case the mouse appeared again. He refused numerous times to come up with us but he eventually did. I had to change my top so I went into the bathroom, and there it was. The mouse dead on the floor right near the shower. He then picked it up with a tissue and acted like nothing had happened. ||||I am absolutely disgusted with the hotel and do not recommend that anyone stays here. Even just for a cheap night stay because it’s worth nothing and needs to...