Hotel de Maubeuge - Paris, France     

Stayed in this hotel for the fete de la musique. Is just a short walk from Gare du Nord, on arrival the receptionist was helpful and cheery. The room was clean and comfortable, the lady setting out the breakfast was really kind by doing coffee and croisants later than normal. The carpets to the rooms could do with updating, but I only walked over them 4 times!!! Can recommend this hotel to anyone staying for a weekend. A real plus for a Paris hotel is that the plumbing is sound!! Overall a good stay!

My girlfriend and I were on a 23 day European vacation, and 7 out of the 8 hotels we stayed at were very nice to reasonable as they were all budget hotels. As you guessed it, the Hotel de Maubeuge does not fall into our happy experiences of hotels. The rooms are small, which isn’t a problem for me at all. As we are not in the room much and it was just the two of us. On a funny note, the bathrooms were so small that my knees touched the walls when I was sitting (I’m 6ft tall). The first room we checked into looked and smelled dirty right from the beginning. As we aren’t that picky, we over looked this. Within the first 5 minutes, we start to really see how dirty the room was. The floors were dirty with spots and stains, there was still hair and other items on the floor as if it had not be vacuumed in weeks. The bathroom walls had mildew. There was a medium amount of mildew that could be seen if just looking through the bathroom door. When looking in the shower, it was disgusting, thick and growing. We’ve now been in the room about 8 minutes, and decided to look at the bed a little closer as we noticed the top comforter had hair. We pulled back the comforter to find 100s of strands of hair, sex stains to include a 5” by 1.5” fresh crusty tracks of who knows what. That was it, we were out of that room. Down to the front desk we went, and requested a new clean room. The guy at the desk couldn’t believe the room was dirty, and I invited to bring him up to show him. He declined, and gave us a new room. Room #2… Almost as bad as room #1, but a little cleaner on all levels. The sheets were still pretty nasty, so we went and requested new sheets and made the bed ourselves. The new sheets smelled clean, but still had hair in them. Go figure. We picked out the hair and made the bed. This stay in paris we never returned to our room until late at night when we would fall right to sleep, and we woke up early and got out. Thinking we just had a bad room, I had talked to a couple other guests the first morning and ask how they like their rooms. The 2 couples in two different rooms were unhappy with there rooms as well, and said they were quite dirty. I agreed and said our room was the same, but didn’t give them details of just how bad. Long story short, we are scared by this hotel and had nightmares of it in the following days. Wish I was joking, but it was that bad. Do not stay here, you will find better quality in a hostel. I’m a camping out doors kind of guy so there isn’t much that bothers me, but this placed step over even my line.