"Clean, Kind, and Great Location"Posted: Mon, Nov 23 2009Value:
3After reading some of the reviews on here I was a bit hesitant on staying at the Lotti - seems everyone hates it or loves it.
I had emailed the hotel ahead of time to request a non-smoking room in the newer section of the hotel. They said they would do all they could, but could not guarantee it.
Our flight got into Paris at the ungodly hour of 6:45am, so we arrived on about 2 hours sleep (red eye). We got to the hotel around 8:30 and were told that we would have to wait to get the specific room we wanted since the newer section was booked solid (and they were nice in the way they handled this). They held our luggage for us, no problem.
We roamed the city for a couple of hours until we could not stand up anymore. Back to the hotel lobby to check our status around 10:45am. The room wasn't ready yet, but that didn't surprise me, since checkout wasn't until noon. We lazed in the lobby waiting for the good word.
Our room was ready around 12:30pm, and it was a courtyard room, very quiet. We checked in then (90 minutes before the usual 2pm checkin), and the room was great. No signs of any smoke, and quite roomy. I think it was Room # 58. The bathroom was awesome, a shower with full shower door and a full bathtub complete with bathrobes and slippers for both of us.
We never even turned on the TV (why would you in Paris) so I have no comment on that. We walked everywhere from the hotel, from the Louvre to Notre Dame to St. Sulpice, the Opera, the Arc, and the Eiffel Tower.
We found the people in Paris to be very kind, and we hadn't had time to learn much of the language. They didn't mind speaking English with us when necessary.
The only bad part of the trip (besides some of the heavy downpours) was that the train terminal at the airport was closed the day we left, as someone had left baggage there. After several shuttle bus changes and a cab ride from one terminal to another, we arrived at our gate 20 minutes after the flight was supposed to leave. Luckily others had the same issue, so we didn't miss the flight... TAKE A CAB TO THE AIRPORT, even if it does cost more.