Royal Saint Germain - Paris, France 

"Clean and friendly and a useful location"
Posted: Mon, Nov 23 2009
We visited just after Christmas 2003. The Hotel has a 'burger-bar' right next to it's entrance off the main St.Germaine Road. A good location, very close to the RER station and extremely handy for walking to all the many bistros and bars just south of Notre Dame (just 3 mins walk away) The entrance, lobby and lift are very small and cramped but the room we had was quite spacious by French Hotel standards and very clean and well furnished. Clean bathroom with endless hot water for showers. It was fairly well soundproofed. Breakfast was a bit expensive (12 Euro) but it was a reasonable spread and they would cook eggs fresh to order. The rooms had safes and heating/air conditioning. The cleaners kept turning the heat off so the room was cold when we returned and took ages to warm up (the weather was very chilly!) but otherwise service was efficient and freindly. We were well satisfied at the special offer price of 140 Euros.

Amazing!
Posted: Wed, Jan 21 2009
Super soft towels, very friendly front desk, spoke english free internet, large room, comfortable bed, nice bathroom, everything clean front desk holds your baggage if you need a place to keep it after you check out it is a pretty long train ride from the CDG airport however, so if you have an early flight be sure you can either afford the taxi ride, or book a hotel near the airport for your last night in paris (Millennium Hotel CDG is great, free shuttle to the airport) This hotel is in a great location, close to several train stations, near cafes, restaurants, and small shops. Walking distance from some attractions, only a few train stations away from most others. Breakfast not included I would definitely stay here again. online travel website gives a great price for an amazing room.

Love it!
Posted: Fri, Nov 07 2008
The hotel is located in a central place near popular tourist attractions. The room were nice and cozy, the food was great To sum up, it is the hotel for this price range in Paris.

Hotel Royal - Should be renamed Hotel Toil(et)
Posted: Sun, Nov 04 2007
I have to say that I really enjoyed Sara Houston's contribution in relation to this Hotel, it really is an appalling seedy joint and overpriced to boot! I do not recommend using the lift as we got stuck in this miniscule capsule which reminded me of what poor Buzz Aldrin had to endure on his return back to earth from his trip to the moon. We were in there for 40 mnutes and there was four of us. In hindsight, in some ways I would have preferred to have stayed in the lift for the night as it was a damn site cleaner than my bedroom. If you are into stickiness and stain well, this is the place to come(!) Lovely brown tiles on the bathroom floor with stained filthy grouting. Make sure you bring your slippers for the carpet as this is has a blend of stick, tack and crisp - you could maybe include it in the next Rice Krispee add. The shower experience is also something special - not made for people who are a size 8 or larger, my advice is to walk in sideways - the water sprinkles out of the shower head (definitely pre-1960 fittings), a helpless dribble. I asked for a no smoking room - well, there was no one smoking in my room, I have to say, but the smoke from my neighbours bedroom wafted through my bedroom - I woke up in a cloud of second hand musty smoke - revolting. Breakfast - what do you think ? I came down the stairs instead of the lift. The lady that looks after the breakfast room and provides the coffee is like someone who is still mourning the passing of Marie Antoinette. Tragedy, will not perform unless she is asked to - she supplies the watery coffee obviously made from Marie Antoinettes ashes. The rest of the fare? Unless it is stamped with a sell by date do not touch. The chappy in reception needs to get a personality! Maybe he is overworked by the boss. Please Mr. Owner read this review. Do all of us a favour, close the dump and put us out of our misery. You have no idea of how to run a hotel. The quality of your hotel is being misrepresented on the Web.

A Royal Flophouse!!
Posted: Mon, Oct 15 2007
THIS IS NOT A HOTEL-- It is at best a Parisian flophouse. The Royal St. Germaine Flophouse is located on a VERY NOISY THOROUGHFARE, so if you hope to get any sleep while in Paris, avoid this place at all costs. When I arrived, there was absolutely no one to assist me with dragging and pulling my luggage through the NON-Automatic entry doors. Once inside the flophouse's dark small foyer, I had to stand in line behind 5 other people and their mounds of luggage while they tried to check in. As with the entry doors, check-in at this place was not automated either. Each guest is given a lengthy form that they have to fill out along with their credit card info. It took well over 40 minutes just to get checked in. I requested a room on the backside of the hotel to avoid the eardrum shattering street noise and I was told "the windows are double paned and after one night you will get used to it." Then, came the fun part!! Trying to fit myself and my luggage inside an elevator so small that it became crowded if more than one person was on it. After extruding myself and my luggage from the elevator, I opened the door to what was the filthiest, grossest excuse for a hotel room that I have ever encountered. This place makes a U.S. Motel 6 look like a 5-star hotel. There was no clock , no black out curtains and the bed, carpet and bathroom were disgustingly dirty. And the bedspread--was absolutely indescribably dirty. The mattress--well, I won't even go there!! The noise level from the street below was absolutely incredible. Thankfully, I travel with a blindfold and earplugs. The t.v. had a 12 inch screen and was so old that it reminded me of something I had in college over 20 years ago. The telephone was techologically backwards as well. I picked it up and dialed zero for the front desk so I could get instructions on how to work the a/c controls. No one ever answered so I was forced to use my cell phone to call the front desk. I was then informed that I had to dial 9 to get the front desk. Gee, I guess it would have been too much trouble to have posted some directions to this effect. The bathroom shower was a 30 inch by 30 inch square stall that almost severed one of my breasts when I attempted to get out of it. Also, this hotel turns off the a/c when you leave necessitating another phone call to the front desk upon your return to your room. The fact that Paris was hosting a rugby tournament along with a major retail show made it impossible to locate another hotel. Also, if you need a key to the room safe, you have to put up a 50 euros deposit!! One would have to hold a gun to my head, before I would ever in my wildest dreams recommend this awful, repugnant place.