docjames
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Holiday Inn Paris Opera (Grand Blvds)
June 2024 (2 nights)
Booked two rooms (doesn’t cater for 4 in one room)
Welcome amenity (points)
Welcoming arrival and staff were helpful throughout stay. We arrived circa 1030am from airport and they made one room available and second one later on (which was fine, we’d overnighted at CDG Ibis).
Typical Paris hotel across mix of floors and layouts - we clearly got a couple of the larger/better (and adjacent) rooms at the base room price which was a nice bonus (Thankyou IHG Amb Diamond Elite).
Basement bar just adjacent to reception i don’t think i ever saw in use (why would you in Paris….) but breakfast area was great (even when busy)with good hot and cold options, pancake machine for kids etc.
We were in the end really pleased with this hotel. Friendly staff, and the location we found excellent for what we wanted - a moderate sized supermarket across the road, heaps of restaurants of varying types and price points nearby, and we walked everywhere from there (across to Palais Garnier, Place de la Concorde, along Seine, Louvre, Hotel de Ville and Pompidou, and more. THen up to Montmatre the dewas a modest walk too and they held one room until 1400 for us which was a significant bonus.
Would definitely stay here again. I note it is franchised (ie. independently operated on behalf of IHG/HI) so wonder whether that is part of the reason it felt so warm and personable and less “clinical” which some HI can be.
June 2024 (2 nights)
Booked two rooms (doesn’t cater for 4 in one room)
Welcome amenity (points)
Welcoming arrival and staff were helpful throughout stay. We arrived circa 1030am from airport and they made one room available and second one later on (which was fine, we’d overnighted at CDG Ibis).
Typical Paris hotel across mix of floors and layouts - we clearly got a couple of the larger/better (and adjacent) rooms at the base room price which was a nice bonus (Thankyou IHG Amb Diamond Elite).
Basement bar just adjacent to reception i don’t think i ever saw in use (why would you in Paris….) but breakfast area was great (even when busy)with good hot and cold options, pancake machine for kids etc.
We were in the end really pleased with this hotel. Friendly staff, and the location we found excellent for what we wanted - a moderate sized supermarket across the road, heaps of restaurants of varying types and price points nearby, and we walked everywhere from there (across to Palais Garnier, Place de la Concorde, along Seine, Louvre, Hotel de Ville and Pompidou, and more. THen up to Montmatre the dewas a modest walk too and they held one room until 1400 for us which was a significant bonus.
Would definitely stay here again. I note it is franchised (ie. independently operated on behalf of IHG/HI) so wonder whether that is part of the reason it felt so warm and personable and less “clinical” which some HI can be.