Mary's Hotel République

The location and the proximity of the metro station “Oberkampf” (literally just a couple of steps from the hotel) are great. The neighborhood is ok and there are plenty of restaurants/cafes and some bakeries around.

On pictures, the hotel looked nice, modern, even upscale. The reality could not be different. Without the location in the larger centre of Paris, this hotel would be a fading dormitory charging modest prices... but since the whole world is stupid enough and come to Paris as if it was a Holy Grail of all travelers, some hotel owners apparently do not have to worry... The biggest disappointment was the bathroom: some tiles were fitted on the wall as if the construction work was done by drunk lazy slackers, the handle on the bathroom door was hanging half-broken, the door had a rotten bottom which made a several centimeter thick hole allowing bathroom stench to leak into the room, the curtain was shabby like from the 1970s and the towels were grey after frillions of washing cycles. On top of that, some members of the staff do not say hallo, thank you and you are welcome and just stare at people (some, on the contrary, are very polite). We even saw a member of the staff transporting used towels and bed linen on the floor in the lift and kicking them out of the lift with his legs (maybe he used to be a footballer in his country of origin). Simply never ever again...