Hôtel Balladins Paris La Villette  

The location is very good, easy access to subway stations, about 6 min. to walk. The price of the room was quite cheap compared with accommodation prices in Paris. I stayed in a room with double bed, very comfortable. The rooms are clean and very warm and they changed towels every day during our stay. The personnel was nice, they allowed us to leave our luggage at the hotel for a couple of hours, after check-out. I would say that this hotel has a very good rate between price and quality. I would definitely recommend this hotel for persons visiting Paris!

Well, the rooms are rather small, but so are most of the hotel rooms in Paris. Walls are very thin, the aisle of the hotel is very, very narrow. I think, between my room and the elevator there was a space of no more than 1 meter. When you decide to book at this hotel, do not except a residential area, because it is not ;)

There was wonderful coffee at the corner cafe. There was also a bakery across from the cafe. You could walk to La Villette if so inclined.

There were no functioning phones in the rooms and no reason as to why. When we arrived our rooms were not ready, but would be shortly, but we were still asked to leave and leave our luggage there until they were ready.

The location is good and the room is small but acceptable. But in the morning there is always NO receptionist in the front desk and the door IS LOCK so we cannot go out and the always some people need to come in cannot enter the hotel. It was terrible. We met the situation in the 2 morning. We bell the ring inside and the people clicked the ring outside but there was still no one ansewering at leass 20 minutes. Then, there was a fat-blonde woman arriving still very slowly without apologing and saying: I was cleaning the room upstiar so i didn't hear the ring. It was terrible.

Pretty much all we wanted was a quiet, comfortable sleep while we enjoyed Paris for a week. The hotel Balladins gave us this at a very good price.

It was difficult to set up internet. They advertised free wi-fi but to set it up they require a French cell phone number (to receive SMS messages). It took a few days for us to figure out how to get this working. One of the hotel attendants was quite rude and didn't even bother trying to help us with this. Fortunately there was another attendant that was much more helpful and let us use her personal cell phone to set this up. I wish I'd gotten a SIM card from LeFrench Mobile (mailed to the US) or Orange (at one of their shops around the city) before I went so we would have no issues getting internet in Paris.

The stuff was helpful.

My friends' room was smelly, somebody was smoking in there before our coming. The internet acces was broken during all our staying (4 nights), whic is quite a long time to repair it I think.

Good location and the room was very clean

Everything in order, quite good looking room.

Small space, but I think it"s the same everywhere in paris... For internet connection you had to registrate,get code to your mobile, write long code, reopen couple times window,la la la... And everytime do that. It"s not comfortable when you don"t have time or pation. But that"s nothing so bad too...i liked the hotel, but I didn"t like area around(distict). Trash in the streets, not nice building,not orderly looking black people...i am not a rasist, but when around you in evening walks 99 proc. Just black people, you don"t feel comfortable...well like maverick,like in another respublic...:P

Our room was at the back so no noise from street. Large new showerhead; lots of warm water; very comfortable shower. Good matrasses, room very clean. No cons.

Easy to find and helpful staff. Bed was comfortable and rooms were well lit. The bakery next door had to be the best in the neighborhood.

Road noise was steady, as was the neighbors snoring.

Good location: 5 mins to the nearest metro station which is easy access to the main attractions of Paris; supermarkets and restaurants of different cuisines nearby. Clean room with decent size; friendly English-speaking staff.

The room is a bit small if you have big cases. Also very small lift...

The hotel is quite close to the Metro 7 station, and the street where it located is nice. The room is simple but clean and comfortable, and the receptionist is helpful, quite nice.

The hotel provides free wifi, but it is a little bit complicated to get the password via mobile message. Anyway, we got online for the second night.

Very good hotel. The staff is very kind and helpfull. Some of them speak also Italian. the room was small but comfortable and clean. As romans used to say "Parva sed apta mihi". The hotel is near the Metro and very near the Planetarium and Parc de la Villette.

Just a little notice (but not an hotel fault) is that the block where it is located is a little "pictoresque"., but we hadn't any kind of problems.

Very close to the Metro and any transportation.

Bedroom too small.