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I stayed here for 3 nights in October 2002. The hotel is located on Blvd. St. Germain but it's in the 5th district part of Blvd. St. Germain.
Request a triple room not only for more space but also the triple rooms are either on the 5th or 6th floors which afford nice views. Of course, singles and doubles are mixed in also.
The triple room was not huge but comfortable enough to walk around in. Furnishings are modest but good enough and there were a desk and chair as well as two side tables. There were two large French (what else) windows with a balcony/terrace that overlooked Blvd. St. Germain on one side. On the other side where the bathroom is there is another smaller window when opened you could see the very tip of Notre Dame's spires.
The bathroom is not large but it is very comfortable. A plus is that there was a shower/bathtub combination equipped with a glass screen-water still splashed out though!
Very clean with white tiles.
The one drawback (which is quite common) is that the walls are thin. I could hear my neighbor on one side coughing and the neighbor on the other side talking loudly to his wife. What fun! :( But that all goes with the experience I guess)
Breakfast is quite adequate as it's a continental buffet breakfast: croissants, baguettes, fruit salad, juice, coffee, hot chocolate, tea, cheese-the usual stuff.
On the whole this is a nicely located hotel as Blvd. St. Germain is full of shops (Diptyque is a few blocks away), boulangeries, etc., the hotel is a few blocks from the Seine (& Notre Dame) in one direction and St. Germain des Pres in the other direction. Closeby on rue Bernardins is Eglise Saint Nicolas du Chardonnet.
The hotel has a/c.
UPDATE as of June 2005: I inquired about a 2006 spring rate (high season) and the hotel quoted me a whopping 180 euro for a double room in addition to 12 euro for breakfast! Recent reports say the breakfast offers eggs now, but the rate has definitely increased tremendously since 2002 even with eggs included in the breakfast.
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| Abbatial Saint Germain: Great Latin Quarter Location
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We stayed for three days in August 2009. Our party included self, wife and 20 yo son (we had two rooms, a double and a single).
Our experience was consistent with the reviews on file already; to summarize:
Plus's: Excellent location for tourism downtown; convenient to several major attractions (e.g. Notre Dame and Louvre); close by good nightlife areas; entire property is clean, tidy and in good repair. Staff was uniformly polite, friendly and responsive. Good quality double-glazed windows kept outside noise to a minimum. Neighborhood was quiet.
Neutral/Minus: As a US traveler I am accustomed to larger rooms; the rooms were smaller than I expect, but I'm told this is typical of Paris; breakfast was 12 euro for scrambled eggs, pastry and juice (no meats or fruit offered?); although there were several fine cafes nearby to choose from. As some others noted, there was occasional noise (we noticed this most often from the use of plumbing - toilets and showers) in neighboring rooms; not a problem for us but a little odd. Rooms had "minibar" refrigerator which was stocked with a good assortment of soft drinks, although only 1 250cc bottle of beer (?) and no liquor.
We had one minor service incident with an airport shuttle which the hotel had offered and booked for us. When the shuttle arrived, they had an 8 seat van with 6 passengers and a driver; the driver spent several minutes trying to wedge 3 of us into the 1 open seat by shuffling passengers. He ignored our requests to contact his company for another van. When he refused to respond to our (fluent French!) requests, we re-entered the hotel, explained the situation and asked for a refund. The hotel front desk attendant provided the refund quickly, in cash, with no further questions asked and helped us find a cab (to get to the airport for our international flight home.) Good service recovery.
Location, location, location. Latin Quarter, adjacent to metro station. There's also a "hop on, hop off" tour bus stop across the street.
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