Avenir Hotel Montmartre  

location, room cleaning

The hotel is maintained in a terrible state. Lounges on the floors are dirty and littered with old furniture and dirty laundry. In general, all the furniture has long thrown out. Despite the fact that we stayed at the hotel for 8 nights, they gave us a very bad and cold room, as later admitted to the administrator. The room was a small dog kennel, with a bathroom, which is a 1 meter by 1 meter. Room did not contain even a wardrobe. But the worst thing in the room is that the radiator is old and not warm enough. In the absence of air conditioning in the room it replaces the holes in the walls, which were left with 19 th century. Of the holes in the wall of cold air from outside blowing strongly into the room. Only after we were told that we turn to the tourist inspection, they changed the room.

Room 40 has a beautiful view of the Sacre Coeur. The hotel is a 2 minute walk to the Anvers metro. The area is very safe as there was people in the street till 1 a.m. most nights. It is a 10 minute walk to the church. There is an internet cafe 2 door down that is open late, also an ATM. The streets east and west have public automatic toilets available and there are many lost cost street food vendors and small grocery stores. Very little street noise when the double glazed window was closed. It was my second stay.

Bathrooms are a bit tight and it's was easy to hear coughing from any room on my floor.

The Good: It is close to metro. It is cheap for Paris. The people are ok, trying to do their best.

The hotel is patched to stay on its feet. We had holes in the bathroom covered with tape. We had mold all over walls. The room looked like it was painted by o group of volunteers trying to do something good but not very skilled. Conclusion: The management should resign. A good manager could do so much better for this place in a short period of time with little budget.

Location was good being just 5 minutes walk from Sacre Coeur and Place de Tertre.

Twin-bedded room was very small with minute en-suite - like a grotty student room. Bed linen was old; my sheet had a small hole in it and the blanket was horrible. Safe wouldn't open so had to carry everything around with me. The carpet outside was patched and dirty.

The best of all was the view of Sacré Coeur from the room window. Breathtaking. The reception staff was always very helpful.

The carpet. The bathroom. It was impossible to take a shower as the water kept going from freezing cold to scorching hot in 5 seconds, and back again... impossible to get a steady temperature. It's a 2 star hotel, an old building, oh well, but it's Paris and it's as cheap a room as you will get. Think of it as patine, and enjoy Montmartre :)

great view of sacre cour(as all other reviwers have said), i was on 6 floor room 40, single room with bathroo/shower/toilet, nice little balcony, comfy double bed, tables chair, storage shelves and hangers, tv, mirrors. breakfast served to room was very nice for 6 euros, served between 7-9(let themknow what time youd prefer). seriously great location. hot drinks and snacks can be bought at a reasonable price at reception. they will also keep your luggage save for you if you arrive before check in times ect..

literally no room to turn in bathroom which wasnt to much of a problrm for mr being 5'7 average build but for the taller/bigger person could be a pain, could also do with a fresh coat of paint, other than that all good would highly recomend for budget/solo travellers/couples.

Location was the only redeeming quality. It's right across the street from the Anvers metro station.

The receptionist was slow, inefficient and rude. After I paid for our stay, he was printing out the receipt when another guest asked for his room key. The receptionist attended to this other guest first, which was reasonable as it didn't take very long. But then he has forgotten what he was doing before. When he finally remembered, another guest walked in to ask for his key, which took his attention away again and it was a while before he could resume the printing. After he handed me the receipt, he looked at me as if everything was done, so I reminded him to give me my change, at which point he seemed indignant that I'd think he'd forgotten about it. He took a long time to calculate the change (use a calculator if you can't do simple math in your head!), got it wrong the first time, and then the check-in was finally completed after a very long time. Next thing we knew, the elevator was broken. Since our room was on the 4th floor, I politely asked if there's any other way to go up. He asked if we had a lot of luggage, I said only one piece but it's very heavy, and he replied: "Then it's all right! It's just 3-4 floors!" It was close to midnight, my friend and I are both girls, and this buff man did not even offer to help us with our luggage or at least say something nice. Now the room. The carpet had stains all over it, the bed cover had stains all over it. The shower didn't have a caddy or shelf to hold shampoo. The toilet was squeezed into a tiny space. There's no hot water at the sink (the shower had hot water though). There's no electrical outlet near the desk. In short, it was a very bad experience and I would not recommend this hotel to anyone.

I was tiered and there was a bed.

Very run down/ very small room / decor poor / fittings.. well, everything worked.

Not a bad size room for a paris hotel,plenty of hotwater,nice view from balcony stayed in room 29 although I did request room 39 when I made my booking as the view is better,would stay at this hotel again if staying in that area,walked back to gare de nord to get train to airport10 minute walk which is easy straight road from hotel then turn right by metro station easier than getting metro from hotel and having to carry luggage up and down stairs in the metro station.just mention walls are a bit thin at the hotel and you can hear next door taking a shower etc, street is very noisy as its a busy street but if you shut the windows it blocks it all out.

Location, convenience to Metro, friendly staff

Price, small rooms and bathrooms

Glad it had an elevator as we were on the 5th floor. From our window we were able to see the light display on the Eiffel Tower. If I walked out on the balcony I was able to see Sacre Coeur - great bonus for the price.

The shower stall was very small but functional.

I loved waking up to the view of the Sacre Coeur during sunrise, priceless! I had a room with a balcony on the 6th floor. The bed was comfortable, the breakfast was different, basic yet good. The staff was nice. The man working the night shift on a Saturday was the most helpful and friendly of them. All in all, a fantastic location, and lovely views. Have already recommended it to my friends!

It would have been nice to see the lady, who was most often at the reception, smile (more). But she was helpful and kind nonetheless.

Location is excelent, near a metro station. Value for money is very good. The breakfast is good.

Some noise from some rooms small elevator