This hotel charged 45 euros for one night in a double room, we were initially told this would be 40 euros and they even tried to charge us 50. Exceptionally damp bedding, could not see through the window or open it as it was boarded up on the outside. Shower curtain didn't reach the top of the bath so consequently the entire bathroom floor - bare concrete - was soaked, towel rail fell off the wall. Very loud night club downstairs that went on throughout the night. Lift only worked when it felt like it. The breakfast hall - which is actually shared with the more up-market Transatlantique - looked like a horror film, dirty, untidy and un-cared for. Breakfast was horrible - fluorescent slices of meat, blobs of old butter floating in water and stale pastries. The architecture would have been beautiful in its hay day but to see it in such a mess was depressing. Upon check-out the receptionist was sarcastic and smarmy. Not a mid-range hotel at all and not worth the money. Also the marble stair cases are covered in loose carpet which is incredibly slippy which is not secure and nearly sent one of us flying down two...
Read moreThis hotel charged 45 euros for one night in a double room, we were initially told this would be 40 euros and they even tried to charge us 50. Exceptionally damp bedding, could not see through the window or open it as it was boarded up on the outside. Shower curtain didn't reach the top of the bath so consequently the entire bathroom floor - bare concrete - was soaked, towel rail fell off the wall. Very loud night club downstairs that went on throughout the night. Lift only worked when it felt like it. The breakfast hall - which is actually shared with the more up-market Transatlantique - looked like a horror film, dirty, untidy and un-cared for. Breakfast was horrible - fluorescent slices of meat, blobs of old butter floating in water and stale pastries. The architecture would have been beautiful in its hay day but to see it in such a mess was depressing. Upon check-out the receptionist was sarcastic and smarmy. Not a mid-range hotel at all and not worth the money. Also the marble stair cases are covered in loose carpet which is incredibly slippy which is not secure and nearly sent one of us flying down two...
Read moreWe showed up with a reservation made through hostelbookers.com. The rude girl in the reception said there was no reservation and that it was not her business to find out what had happenned. Eventhough we showed our confirmation of the reservation and the payment of the booking fee, she said she had no contact in hostelbookers and could do nothing. After discussing for a long time with another man in the reception (who of course also treated us like we were crap). we saw he had our reservation printed and written by hand "not accepted", but they could never explain why. They said to us they could offer another room, a more expensive one, but wouldn´t take what we had paid before. We left to another hotel after loosing our time and money, and called hostelbookers, who then told us the owners of the hotel said we showed up unwilling to pay the price of the room (!!!) incredibly dishonest people trying to take advantage...
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