Monterosa - Astotel

Staff helpful, spoke English. Room was always cleaned and towels replaced. Breakfast was very good. Snacks were a bonus. It was nice to have a fridge - though it reeked like rotten food. We chose this hotel primarily because of its location to the train station we would be taking to Caen/Normandy. That worked out very well.

It was very NOISY. The room could be stuffy, but if we tried to run the fan - it blew hot air. So we either had to deal with a stuffy room or the cacophony of noise coming from outside. Unbelievable. Also, the mattresses were awful (I don’t like memory foam. But in all fairness, some people do.) We did not get one good nights sleep in the 5 we were there. The room was clean, but the fridge smelled terrible. There was a safe in the room, but it was on a cart with wheels . . . . Hmmm. The shower was of such poor design that water sprayed all over the bathroom. I usually took a bath just to avoid the mess. Not sure of the fire codes in Paris. My husband is a firefighter. He said if there is a fire, we were going to barricade ourselves in the room and hope someone would rescue us from the window - because that was the only way we would get out.