Les Jardins du Marais

Not a 4-star hotel! Brilliant location, but so dated and tired, cheap and tacky. Rooms are distasteful and drab; coffee machine, but no coffee, chipped enamel in bathroom, no robes, no vanity mirror. Sold on photos of the courtyard garden - but the aesthetic stops there. Walls are paper thin. We stayed in the Eiffel block, which my husband tagged ‘Awful block’. Le Marais forever, but never again Les Jardins.

I stayed at the Hotel Du Marais from 12/07/20, in the heart of Paris, with a large group of travelers organized by Road Scholar. The location of the hotel was excellent and the support provided by the desk could not have been better. The desk printed directions to my day's itinerary by subway almost daily. My room was more than adequate with a good bed/mattress, a bathtub, and great room acoustics so I was able to sleep well. I would definitely go back and I do recommend the hotel.

We paid too much for this hotel. We don't understand why this hotel still has 4 stars. The room was extremely outdated and not clean. There was still trash in the drawer of the bedside table. For 300 euros a night we couldn't even take a hot shower. The toilet doesn't flush. The elevator makes a lot of noise. The breakfast leaves much to be desired. Sausages that you can't bite through, tough bacon, watery eggs and a toaster where the two top grills didn't work. The breakfast location couldn't handle the amount of people, which resulted in long queues. Overall disappointing.

A wide room is possible even in Paris. We reserved a spacious room for a 10 day staying and we did it right. Enough space to have two big bags and a carry on still able to move around. Two chairs, frigo, microwave. The service was good. The lobby comfortable, the coffee excellent to get warm — outside very cold. Umbrellas // details count!!

We were at the hotel for seven nights. Unfortunately, we experienced only one hot shower out of fourteen opportunities. The hotel failed to provide any satisfactory solutions. The breakfast was fine, and the hotel’s proximity to the Metro was convenient. So not a total disaster.