Hotel d'Espagne

We booked the hotel because of the location (earlier stayed in hotel Mondial and thus know the location very well - it is very convenient location close to major sights of Paris, department stores and restaurants). Liked cleanliness of the room and friendliness of local staff. Good sound insulation.

Triple room on the upper floor turned out to be very small (significantly smaller than one in Mondial hotel for similar room price). Room also turned out to be very dark with half of lighting devices not working properly. We arrived at midday and the room was not ready - we were asked to wait until 2 PM (actually, we came back at 1:30 PM and our room was ultimately ready). We had the room on the upper floor, but there was no elevator going straight to that floor (the elevator, actually, went to one floor lower) - had to carry heavy luggage up the stairs for a while. What is even more important - there turned out to be no water in the room at all due to some technical problem (both cold and hot water), the toilet flush was also not working. The problem was fixed late in the evening only. The hotel staff immediately offered us free breakfast for 2 nights as a compensation - the breakfast turned out to be rather scarce (though, good in quality). But this was expected as French people do not tend to eat much for breakfast.