My wife and I were in Paris on October 15-22 this year. on the tour "Walk in Paris" with the travel agency "Pac Group". We stayed at the PEYRIS hotel. For breakfast, the wife took her handbag with her, placing it next to the table, or hanging it on the back of her chair. Other tourists did the same, and it was the same on the day of departure - on Saturday, October 22 at 9.00. When we poured coffee (less than 2 meters from the table), the handbag disappeared. In my wife's bag was a passport, two phones... The administrator Elena said that none of the outsiders entered or left. We asked her to call the police, but she said that the police would not come and recommended that we contact the police ourselves.
We called the agency "Paris-Etoile Voyage" at tel. +33.45 2.64 80 and mob. tel. +33.08 9.57 72, but only the answering machine in French answered. Then they called the Pac Group 24/7 service at +7(495)93.09 58. The girl replied that, probably (! ), she should go to the police and the embassy, although she was not sure (! ) whether the embassy was open on Saturday. No specific recommendations, coordinates and phone numbers were provided.
The hotel administrator gave us the address of the police. Due to the fact that my wife speaks English and the police found one English speaker, we were able to fill out a questionnaire, according to which the theft was recorded. Only the police gave us the phone number and address of the embassy and we were able to contact the officer on duty, who provided us with quick and accurate information on what we need to do in order to obtain an exit/entry certificate. There was catastrophically little time to collect all the documents from the police, take them to the embassy, write out a certificate and return back to the hotel, and we did not have time for the appointed hour of departure from the hotel. My wife called the hotel administration (English and strangers helped again) and they asked the driver to pick us up last, which helped us leave for the airport and fly out on time. You can say very lucky.
Thus, all the actions taken by us to organize our departure after the theft occurred in the hotel were not due to, but in spite of the absence of the Pac Group crisis management. Various people helped us, but not the employees of the "Pac Group", to whom we entrusted the organization of our holiday.
In general - everything is wonderful! Rest is always good, no matter where you are!
Special thanks to the staff! And at the reception, and in the kitchen, and cleaners!
From the very beginning, this hotel was attracted by the fact that there was not a single bad review about it on the Internet. The negative thing boiled down to one thing: the fact that it has a very small elevator (we even found it cool, we had never seen such an elevator, but the two of us were very comfortable).
We found the hotel right away. The map downloaded with the location of the hotel turned out to be very successful (tip: download maps from the Internet, paper maps do not contain small streets, and this is the main reason for wandering when everything is nearby! ).
The way to the hotel upon arrival in Paris by RossyBus from Charles de Gaulle airport. The main thing is to find the Boulevard Des Italiens from the Grand Opera in the streets running in all directions and then straight along it there will be Boulevard Montmartre, then Boulevard Poissonniere, then turn left onto Rue du Faubourg Poissonniere and there the second turn to the left into the small Sainte Cecile street and immediately right to Rue de Conservatoire, where the hotel is located.
As soon as they entered, they realized that this is what they were looking for. Maybe it was the fact that we carefully studied all the photos on the Internet, so there was a feeling that we were in a familiar place.
I was also attracted by the fact that the reviews said that a Russian girl worked at the reception. In fact, there are two girls working there who speak Russian, and another Pole who knows Russian. In general, at first, they thought that this was a hotel for Russian-speakers, because both the instructions in Russian were on the door of the breakfast room and on the elevator, on television the RTR-Planet channel, at breakfast, too, there was completely Russian speech nearby (this is already then we realized that only ours get up for breakfast at the opening of the restaurant, and foreigners pull themselves up in an hour).
Breakfast is decent: two types of cold cuts, two types of hard cheese, assorted fruits, cereals, croissants, butter and jams in small packs, rolls. Tea bags, brewed coffee (very good).
Cleaned every day, linen changed after 3 days. Everything is clear. Soap, gels and glasses were provided every day.
Plumbing, air conditioning worked properly.
Our windows overlooked the street (as we ordered). By the way, the rooms in the hotel overlooking the street are all large, but in the courtyard, on the contrary, they are small. We booked the hotel 2 months in advance. In our wishes, which the travel agency forwarded to Paris, we painted everything to the smallest detail, including the number of floors, the view from the windows to the street, a double bed, etc. What is nice, they took into account almost all our wishes.
As I think, with advance booking, all applications are taken into account, but with last-minute booking, the rooms get, as they say, “what is left”.
To the metro 10 minutes on foot. Nearest stations: Bonne Nouvelle (lines 8 and 9) or Cadet (line 7). We used the seventh line when we went to the center, since it is very convenient to come to the Louvre (5 stops), and on the way back we tried to take the eighth or ninth line in order to go along Boulevard Montmartre and go to the supermarket to buy food and water or return on foot.
Nutrition. You can eat for a long time at breakfast. As for lunch, with a complete lack of knowledge of French, despite the abundance of cafes, they avoided eating there. We dined a couple of times when we had tours in self-service restaurants with a group, and even in the Louvre restaurant (there is also self-service and everything is signed), as well as in the cafe of the Montparnasse skyscraper (they speak English there). At random, we turned up the restaurant "Chez Aleksandre" with a Russian-speaking waiter. There we tried the famous onion soup and frog legs. This restaurant is located at La Fayette, 16 on the way from the hotel to the Grand Opera. By the way, the path to the hotel from the Grand Opera lies precisely along La Fayette, but without knowing this street, it is more difficult to navigate, so for the first time I recommend following the path indicated at the beginning of the review.
Dinner was bought in supermarkets. The nearest supermarkets along the way are Monoprix (Boulevard Montmartre) and G20 (Rue Bleue on the way to Cadet metro). Salads, cheeses, baguettes and a bottle of wine cost 12-15 euros for two.
The week went by like a fairy tale. Have a nice holiday!
working late.
Territory: The hotel is small, less than 50 rooms, stands at the intersection of streets
rue du Faubourg Poisonniere, rue Bergere, rue du Conservatoire in
surrounded by dense buildings typical of Parisian houses of 4-6 floors with attics. The hotel has a restaurant and a small bar. Surprises the size of the elevator: in
2 people can hardly fit it - very funny)) To ride it, you need to lose weight!
Room: The rooms are small, especially on the top floor, where the attic. There is a bath and hair dryer. The view from the windows - to the street, directly to the neighboring hotel "Aida Opera", or to another street. The room has a bed, a table, a chair, a bedside table, a telephone, a wardrobe, a TV (there are RTR-Planet, CNN, BBC channels), air conditioning. Safe - only at the reception, paid. Noise isolation, unfortunately, is not good, and if you come across noisy neighbors, you will hardly fall asleep
Service:
The staff is quite adequate, friendly, they speak English tolerably well, they know
a few words in Russian, there is even one girl who speaks Russian. Cleaning is good, regular, every day (tipped 2 euros).
Room service seems to be - but we did not try.
Meals: In the restaurant, breakfast is a cold buffet (rolls, croissants, ham, cheese, jam, coffee, tea), the quality of food is good. You can have lunch and dinner, but this is already for a fee, the menu is t. e. complex lunch - costs 30 euros per person. Coffee at the bar - 2.5 euros a small cup
Animation, entertainment:
On Tuesdays on the 1st floor - piano evenings. Exhibitions in the lobby
some local artists.
Good hotel near the center, Opera and metro stations. As an option Bed & Breakfast - very good.