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: Good Songs , Mixture of Songs Disadvantages: weak voice
cracking tunes
One thing that does slightly annoy me about this album is the fact that some of the songs are about Paris and how much she loves herself. For example one song is 'Fighting Over Me' and another is 'jealousy' which is about her ex-best friend Nicole Richie being jealous of her.
One positive point is that , Paris being a multi-millionnaire already obviously did not just make this album for the money like 'celebrities' such as Channelle Hayes who release Cds just to make money out of their fifteen minutes of fame! At least Paris has done this album because it's genuinely something she wanted to do , rather than just for the cash!
A good album , great songs , shame about her voice!
Thanks For Reading!
August 22nd 2008
Xdonzx
Paris - from £2.98 - play.com ...
Advantages: Cheap; handy location Disadvantages: No air con so pretty bad in summer; tiny rooms
When we stayed at the ParisHostel and Hotel in Istanbul it was at the end of a three month circular trip and we wanted to try some different accommodation to the place we?d stayed at some fourteen weeks earlier. A week before we were due to arrive back in Istanbul we did an online search for something suitable and found the Paris H&H.
I have no idea why it?s called "hostel AND hotel". Maybe they think a dormitory means a hostel and private rooms mean a hotel? Anyway, this is plain and simple accommodation with very few, if any, frills. It is hostel standard, or one or two star standard in hotel-speak. Had we known then just how much money we had left at the end of the trip, we?d have spent more, isn?t hindsight great?
The hostel is in a very useful location in the Sultanahmet district approximately halfway between the Grand ...
