Tonic Hôtel Saint Germain

The hotel is only a short walk from Notre Dame with easy access to the Metro and Gare Montparnasse. The area around the hotel is full of wonderful restaurants and a vibrant night scene. That said, it wasn't too loud and one could fall asleep at a decent hour.

As one of our fellow hotel occupants put it, "The bathroom is a joke." The hotel was not built with the expectation of each room having its own bath. Our "bathroom" consisted of a single glass wall (yes, clear glass) behind which the shower was located. There was no lip in the floor to stop the water, so showering meant filling a good portion of the room with water. The toilet was also behind a glass wall, albeit frosted at the bottom to provide some sense of privacy, but was smaller than a plane lavatory and had a suspicious yellow stain below the toilet bowl when we first arrived. It disappeared the next day after our room was cleaned. We chose not to think too hard on that fact. Our room also had a remote control for a TV, but there was no TV in the room. You don't need to watch TV in Paris but it was an odd fact.