Hotel Auriane Porte de Versailles

right place

the room was occupied

Travelling to Paris is always a pleasure, and obviously your stay in a certain hotel doesn't make a difference (for us), since normally we spend the day out, walking around the city and visiting places here and there. In this case the best thing the hotel could offer is proximity to the metro station.

Someway in chronological order, I filtered out hotels, looking basically at availability of parking spots for our car since we were driving to Paris. I asked for confirmation via email about the availability of parking spots (twice) and didn't get an answer. When we arrived @ the hotel the staff confirmed that there were no free spots (they also confirmed that the hotel simply has 2 parking spots but were occupied). Nevermind, let's go ahead and drop our luggage. Ah no!, let's first pay (without even having the chance to go up to the rooms and 'enjoy' our stay). No problem. Got the cards (reserved a triple room for 3 of us and a double room for my parents). Go upstairs from a reception desk where last time dust was cleaned was around 20 years ago, to the rooms via a vintage staircase. Come into the room and get ready. Carpet floor (luckily exception was the toilet & bathroom) with dirt spots everywhere. Air conditioning system not working. Fridge not working. 'Old school' dirty walls, and best thing, a weird spot for a curtain, which i didn't want to uncover... but at last did, and which was hiding some kind of electrical record box (to say something) with cables manually tied up (and of course without any kind of lid / cover) basically ready to set your room on fire. My parents were a bit luckier in the double room. The fridge was working (in the beginning), however they simply had 1 pillow (no problem, let's go to reception desk). 'Hey, could we get a pillow?, just found one in our double room....' (staff) 'Sure? there should be another one... let me check...' Finally got a second pillow (no pillowcase was given... but hey, nevermind, at least the pillow seemed clean). Day out... wonderful Paris... obvioulsy too crowded... but we were part of the thing. Go back to the hotel, my parents go have a shower... and then the sink in the bathroom starts leaking...

Close to the office, neighboorhood okay

Everything

Location

Unpleasant place. Terrible rooms. Dirty towels, floors, unpleasant smell. It’s not 3 stars it’s 1 not more. Never and never again!! Stay away from this place.