Holiday Inn Garden Court Paris Auteuil - Paris, France     

I booked this hotel a bit last minuteish as I had strangely got 3 days off work together and decided oh what the hell i'll go to the French Open, Im sure i can survive on gcse french, (yeah right).Luckily I was only here 3 nights. Now don't get me wrong there was nothing particularly wrong with the hotel. But it was pricey pricey pricey for what it was. It was right next to a tube station, which was a good point for me. There are a decent selection of bakery type places for sandwiches and breakfast fodder. But theres bugger all around. Wanted to go for a meal at night and struggled to find something at a feesable price, ended up in mcdonalds, chicken mcnuggets were a life saver i swear! Tube is 20m from hotel altho i didn't hear any noise when in my room. The room itself could have done with a bit of a revamp, there was some scary-ass 1970's portrait on the wall, which stared at me whilst i slept, i swear the eyes moved on it. Bed was pretty comfy, but it said dble bed, was infact 2 singles shoved together as yes, you guessed it when i did my regular diving on the bed test, (an activity which must be done on every hotel visit) i fell down the middle :0( There was a nice band aid on the wall, perhaps the wall was injured, I wasn't about to check. Bathroom was bigger than the bedroom. Oh dear god.....I made the mistake of not taking my laptop, there was a surcharge for wifi, maybe that was why....FRENCH TV SUCKS, I was flicking thru my 6 channels, found 4 channels of french news, the family guy, which i got briefly excited about until the sound came up (sadly dubbed in german), csi (sadly dubbed in french). All in all slightly crap.

This hotel is too far away from paris,3 miles from effiel tower and 3 trains from the cdg airport, took us two hours to get too, when your only here for a weekend like us it was time consumming spending so much time on metro. The staff are lovely and helpful and the hotel its self is ok not bad but far from great, room quite small, bedding a bit old and stained bathroom spotless and the breakfast is ok of a fair standard. Had a great time in paris but would stay closer to centre next time.