Got this room as an Express Deal on PriceLine. Stayed 4 nights. They handled my weird booking very well (two separate two night reservations). Nicely appointed, clean, but tiny room. And it was shaped really weird...like a piece of pie with the bathroom at the pointy end. The wide end was barely big enough to hold the queen sized bed. We just got off a river cruise, and this room and the river ship room were similarly sized, so we're talking TINY. The bathroom was bigger, though. Nice shower, nice fixtures, plenty of hot water, no bath tub.
The staff that manned the desk were friendly and spoke English. We didn't really go much beyond check-in talk and hi/bye, so I'm not sure of their command of English, but it's a heck of a lot better than my command of French!
Weird visit from the mini-bar guy during a nap one day. I would expect that they'd just knock, and if someone was in there, they'd go away. Or at least wait for the guest to open the door. He just used his pass key, poked his head in and asked if we used any mini-bar stuff. Nope. He did remind us that the coffee (instant) was complementary and then left. Wow, that was weird.
The metro line went right under the building, but it's a low rumble that is easy to tune-out. The room had a window out to the "courtyard", so no view...but what do you want from a PriceLine buy?
Free internet worked, sort-of. The first day, it was feeding my google maps android app pretty well, but after that, I would connect with a browser, pop over to the maps app to have it calculate a metro route for me, and after a minute or two, it would kick me off the Internet. That was annoying, but I could work around it. Then, our last night in the hotel, they kicked us off the Internet at 8:37pm (it said that in the connection confirmation page). I might have been able to call the desk and ask that it be extended, but I didn't want to get into what might turn into a confusing discussion. read more