Les Jardins du Roy  

This hotel is very welcoming and convenient for the train station, although the hotel is set in a very busy part of Paris, I find it very quiet and relaxing.

Great hotel, in a perfect location for exploring the main sights and the river. Great bars around the corner, and the metro station across the road. For more lively bars and restaurants just walk down to Bastille, which is a 10 minute walk but has loads on places on route. The staff were friendly and spoke perfect English, which made checking in and finding information very easy. The rooms are nice, well equipped, and of a good size.

Only very minor things, the lift takes forever, and the views from the rooms aren't brilliant, but these should not put you off. Overall this is a great place to stay and we will have no hesitation in booking here when we come back.

The location was very good, metro stops just at a few steps. At the reception they speak many diferent languages, very friendly service. The apartment is small but cozy, it has just the basics, good for a short stay.

Location to Gare du' Austerlitz

Limited hours of reception staff Lights off in corridors & switches not always easy to locate

Location excellent. Walk through Jardin des Plantes towards Rue Mouffetard with shops cafes bars and restaurants. Close to Batobus stop 8 stop Seine round trip hop on hop off if staying several nights a 5 day ticket is only 21 euros cf 14 for 1 day and 18 for 2. Baker now just round corner from McDonalds which is just 2 doors away at corner of rue buffon and Rue d'Hopital. We had Room 305 looking down at skeletons in Musee Natural History (Rhinocerus and giraffe amongst others! Make sure you get the code of uou may miss reception opening.

It was right beside Les Jardins des Plantes, a lovely park with interesting museums and gardens. The location was handy to the train station (one Metro stop from Gard d'Nord where we arrived on the Eurostar) and also handy to the hop-on, hop-off boat service on the river. It was possible to walk along the river to The Eiffel Tower, stopping in at Notre Dame and Le Louvre. We also walked to the Pantheon and Les Jardins des Luxembourg. There were two small supermarkets within a block of the apartment and plenty of choice for local eating places nearby.

It would have been handy to have a toaster in our room as most English people have toast for breakfast.

Had the freedom like an apartment

Our room was freshly painted, immaculate, very comfortable, and a tremendous value for the price. The kitchenette was wonderful and gave us a chance to save some money in Paris by cooking several of our own meals. The location, near the Austerlitz station, gave us easy access by metro or train to everywhere we wanted to go. (Also nearby is a Monoprix, with amazing produce, for grocery shopping, and the McDonald's at the corner offers free wifi. All you have to do is stand outside a window at McD's to send and receive e-mail on an iPad or similar device.) Near the hotel we enjoyed walking along the Seine, in the Jardin des Plantes, and down the street around the corner. We appreciated having an elevator to our second-floor room. The manager, Delphine, was very gracious and helpful, and the desk clerk Enzo was also friendly.

It is slightly inconvenient that the front desk is closed from 1 to 4, but we were given a code to get in so it really wasn't a problem. You do have to be careful not to lose or forget the code. The hallway was dark, but that was fine with us for energy-saving reasons. One problem was that the shower didn't work, so we had to take baths in the tub.

Kitchen, although microwave did not work Bathroom (big)

The staff was not helpfull enough. The receptionist could simply to find some information for us but instead he said that he was not obliged to do anything for us. It was rather rude. Also there were some hairs in the bathroom when we arrived. And the third thing - our floor was under repair during our stay. So the smell was terrible but we could not open the window as the hotel was almost on the noisy crossroad plus there were mosquitoes.

Very friendly and helpful staff. Very reasonable - great location.

The location was amazing. It is not the biggest room but it feels a lot bigger than it actually is and is an extremely usable space. The staff is very helpful and very fluent in English. We are defiantly staying here again when we come back to Paris.

If you are looking to walk to Notre Dame or the Louvre, it is about 15- 20 minutes, but it is a very pleasant walk.

It was clean compare to other hotels. Safe area, not crazy busy like all the other touristy hotels. Good transit location about, three minutes away from rer Line C. Two other Metro lines in same station. MacDonalds literally 50m away, good cheap eats and free wifi, they open 8am- midnight. Supermarket Monop around the corner too you can buy water and sandwiches for day trips or snacks. Room has a great shower, lots of hot water, towel warmer bar hanger, lots of shelves to put stuff on, fully equipped kitchen and cold fridge was a plus for us. Bedding was stiff but not as hard as ppl say. Covers are a white sheet and orange grandma blanket, rm is warm enough we didn't use orange one that much.

Can't keep windows open too many misiquitos, killed one dozen our first day there, it will be stuffy no air-con. We did catch the RER into the city it took us 1hr 20mins, got in a rush hour 5:40pm lots of locals getting off work, not recommended. It was a headache, cause of cramping suitcases in with lots of ppl and jetlagged from Canada. We caught a shuttle leaving the hotel for €17 euros to prevent the same problem, train back was €9.10 anyways.