Victory Galou Hotel — Hotel in Paris

Me and my boyfriend received excellent customer service here and all of the staff was very friendly towards us. I speak french somewhat poorly but I understand and have studied it, and we always tried to communicate first in french and only afterwards in english. Therefore I think our efforts in speaking their language made all the difference, also be kind and polite! That should go without saying but we saw a great number of visitors who didn't even thank the staff once or were sulking around with their smartphones all of the time. You get what you give, people. To me it's absolutely absurd that you wouldn't thank a staff member for service or acknowledge their presense by saying hi, good day, see you later... Anyways, Victory Galou staff was super nice for the whole week we stayed there. Be kind to people in the service industry.||Location was ideal for us because it was easy to navigate Paris by foot from there and with metro as well. Passage de l'Industrie seems dodgy at first glance but is actually super quiet compared to the streets right next to it. One day was so loud everywhere else that once we got to our street, it was total and blissfull silence. Yes, you can hear a nearby school ring its bells in the daytime etc, but we never had any trouble with noise on Passage de l'Industrie.||Our room was comfy and big enough for two - only downside was the bath/shower that was clearly meant for shorter people. My boyfriend is 196cm tall, so he had to squat to fit under the showerhead, and he certainly didn't fit in the bathtub for a relaxing bath either. I'm 175cm tall and the bath+shower was a struggle for me as well. Climbing up and down steep staircases to our 5th floor chambre was a minor inconvenience - only really tricky those two times you had to carry all your luggage in and out of your room. Otherwise not a problem at all! At the very least, now we got our leg workouts in the bag. 💪||Yes, you may hear other people make noise on your floor if you're sensitive. But we didn't have any trouble sleeping and for the cost of our stay, everything went damn better than one could hope. I would definitely stay at Victory Galou again, the staff is very trustworthy and nice. ||Please, people, wherever you're traveling - learn at least some keywords in that language and people will be friendlier automatically...

Me and my boyfriend received excellent customer service here and all of the staff was very friendly towards us. I speak french somewhat poorly but I understand and have studied it, and we always tried to communicate first in french and only afterwards in english. Therefore I think our efforts in speaking their language made all the difference, also be kind and polite! That should go without saying but we saw a great number of visitors who didn't even thank the staff once or were sulking around with their smartphones all of the time. You get what you give, people. To me it's absolutely absurd that you wouldn't thank a staff member for service or acknowledge their presense by saying hi, good day, see you later... Anyways, Victory Galou staff was super nice for the whole week we stayed there. Be kind to people in the service industry.||Location was ideal for us because it was easy to navigate Paris by foot from there and with metro as well. Passage de l'Industrie seems dodgy at first glance but is actually super quiet compared to the streets right next to it. One day was so loud everywhere else that once we got to our street, it was total and blissfull silence. Yes, you can hear a nearby school ring its bells in the daytime etc, but we never had any trouble with noise on Passage de l'Industrie.||Our room was comfy and big enough for two - only downside was the bath/shower that was clearly meant for shorter people. My boyfriend is 196cm tall, so he had to squat to fit under the showerhead, and he certainly didn't fit in the bathtub for a relaxing bath either. I'm 175cm tall and the bath+shower was a struggle for me as well. Climbing up and down steep staircases to our 5th floor chambre was a minor inconvenience - only really tricky those two times you had to carry all your luggage in and out of your room. Otherwise not a problem at all! At the very least, now we got our leg workouts in the bag. 💪||Yes, you may hear other people make noise on your floor if you're sensitive. But we didn't have any trouble sleeping and for the cost of our stay, everything went damn better than one could hope. I would definitely stay at Victory Galou again, the staff is very trustworthy and nice. ||Please, people, wherever you're traveling - learn at least some keywords in that language and people will be friendlier automatically...

This hotel is within reasonable walking distance of the central area of Paris, the rooms are furnished well-enough and are clean, but the hotel has no lift (elevator) and the stairways are steep and narrow. Also, there are prostitutes working on the corner of "Passage de l'Industrie" (not too much of a surprise in a street with such a name!), though they are no trouble if you ignore them as you pass by. However, they do attract a number of undesirable men. They don't cause disturbance at night, however the doors of the rooms in this hotel bang shut and the walls are thin so that if you're unlucky and other residents are insensitive your sleep will be interrupted. There is a young man on duty at reception during the mornings and afternoons who is cheerful and pleasant and helpful, but the elderly man who is on duty in the evenings and early mornings has a serious and unpleasant attitude problem. I observed him being very aggressive with three young women who were unsure whether or not to take a room. Also, don't take breakfast in this hotel as it has no dining-room and you're expected to eat in the small reception area! (There's no sign of crockery or cutlery or anything else to do with food in the reception area, and it appears that if you ask for breakfast they just make you a cup of coffee or tea out the back and bring it to you with croissant, i.e. along with very little hospitality at all.) You can find equally price accommodation in Paris where the whole experience...