Advantages: Great location, staff and price Disadvantages: It's very basic
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As an ardent lover of all things Parisien, I have visitied the city numerous times and found this hotel a few years ago. Since then I have returned to the hotel (which is now officially classified as a hostel) four or five times and would recommend it to anyone who wants to visit the city on a shoe-string.
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First of all I will say that if you're looking for luxury in Paris, the Hotel Perfect(and so this review) will be of no use to you. However, if you're looking for a bit of Parisien hospitality coupled with a good location and excellent links, then read on! Floor space is at a huge premium in Paris, so to find such a well located, comfortable and clean place to stay, at such competitive prices, is really quite an achievement.
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The hostel is located on Rue Rodier, in the Montmatre district of Paris. It's a ten ...
Advantages: near to subway station and nice bakery Disadvantages: dirty basic rooms, scary man in our room, generally rude staff
When backpacking around Europe in 2006, Paris was one of the last cities I visited so I already knew what to expect from cheap hostels when I arrived at Hostel Richard. Nothing, however prepared me for the experience ahead of me. On arriving at about 10pm my friend and I found the front door to the hostel blocked shut from the inside with a chair. After knocking on the door a man let us in, and in my opinion was rather rude! Throughout our check in he kept trying to look behind us to see the TV (which appeared to be showing some sort of porn!). The Hostel room was the dirtiest and most basic we had experienced whilst travelling and we simply daren't visit the communal shower room! We used our sleeping bags as the sheets were dirty too.
On our last night we were due to leave early in the morning - about 4pm to catch an early train. We ...
Advantages: clean, tidy, quiet, friendly, just like home Disadvantages: none
like home. We found out later that night that the 3rd bed in the room was the last one left and that he had made an effort to book the other beds first, we were lucky that no one turned up last minute requesting a bed and we ended up having the 3 bed dorm to ourselves then.
We were very grateful and well looked after, this is one of the better hostels in Australia and not overly expensive. ...
