I booked this hotel for one night as I was travelling into and out of Gare du Nord, which is about 15 mins walk away. The area is absolutely horrible, and even as a tall 30 year old male, feels very threatening at night.

The hotel is just off a main street and opposite a metro station, so you can at least get to somewhere less slum-like relatively quickly.

My single room was obtained cheaply over the internet, but I was still taken aback when I opened the door to the small musty cupbosrd they had provided me. Amazingly they had crammed in an old bed and miniture bathroom but failed to think about the poor soul who had to manouver around it. It really was tiny. Step on the bed to get to door tiny.

I can take a small room for a low price but not the dirt and broken furniture and worst of all the heat. This was July but had no air con, not even a fan and because the window opened onto a platform that could be reached from the street, I had to keep that closed. Oh and because of the huge noise levels too.

I never felt my valubles were safe here and reception was hardly ever manned, allowing locals to easily wander in unchallenged. Breakfast was also incredibly poor. However cheap the room, i think it will always be overpriced - avoid.

My father and I have just returned from a 4 night stay at this hotel.I have to say we were disappointed.The 3 star rating it has been given would seem to be very flattering.My room was badly in need of re-painting(dirty marks on walls everywhere),there was very little storage space for your clothes and every time I took a shower my bathroom floor flooded( I pitied the people in the room below).Air-conditioned rooms were said to be available on request so I e-mailed the hotel only to be told they did not exist - not fun in 34 degree heat!

The sumptuous breakfast mentioned on various websites advertising this hotel was very overrated.It was in fact just about adequate with very little choice and the only milk I could find for cereal was warm-yuk.

It is also worth mentioning that the area in which this hotel is situated is not the best place to be around after dark.On every street corner there were any number of vagrants lying on the pavement and had I not been with my dad I would definitely have had to incur the added expense of using taxis rather than walk.Lone female travellers beware.

All in all this is a pretty basic hotel so if you are going to stay there make sure you dont pay a lot for it because if you do you will not see good value for your money !!!

So who stays close to the Place de la Republique? People like us who, at the last moment, were told the apartment we had rented was "unavailable." (A story for another day.)

We took these rooms because they were available, something that seemed good when we had no place to stay. Much to our surprize, they were delightful. Small hotel, tiny elevator, friendly staff, great breakfast, three stars - all this for the internet rate of 90 euro a night per room! The rooms had recently been redecorated in kind of a fun, funky decor. The girls' room had a balcony that overlooked the rooftops of Paris.

No air conditioning on a very hot night, but we were able to sleep.

Very close to the #5 line on the metro, easily accessible to the Gare du Nord and the Gare de l'Est, Louvre, Galleries Lafayette, etc.

Pavillon Republique les Halles
7/9 rue Pierre Chausson
75010 Paris
10th Arondissement

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www.leshotelsdeparis.com

I booked online a single room in this hotel and would not recommend it. The room was situated on the ground-floor, 5m away from the reception. During the first night I was woken every hour by the front door bell I could hear (person behind reception desk locked the hotel door for security reasons I assume, so you had to ring before getting in). Early in the morning there was a lot of noise (chatting, laughing ...) from the breakfast room, so no change to sleep until 10 ! The rooms are very small, you could hardly move. The bathroom was clean but there was some unpleasant smell (as form a sewer?). Maybe I got a less pleasant room because of online booking with reduced price (75 euro/night) ? At check-out Visa didn't work, I had to get cash from a terminal.
I would not recommend this hotel, especially not if you don't sleep like a rock.