Tuesday, 13 March 2007

Welcome to the cheapest hotel in Paris






Pauline found this hotel on the Internet. She booked it because it was one of the few that allowed children and/or four people to a room. Unfortunately, we did not get one of those rooms. The guy at the desk could not give us one room for the four of us, so we had to get two. Luckily, this hotel was extremely cheap. If there was any question to the cheapness of this hotel, it was made plainly evident upon entering our rooms.

The walls were paper thin, and the door locks did not exactly inspire confidence. We were also advised not to take the elevator, which had a capacity of two people (without luggage), being only three feet square. We happily took the stairs.

One of the rooms looked reasonable enough. It had two twin beds and a view of the street. We did not find out until later that the window was directly beside their large illuminated sign outside, which offered the lustre of midday sunlight 24 hours a day.

The other room drove Pauline into a panic. Take a look at the picture of the bathroom above and tell me what's missing. That's right...a toilet. Instead, the bathroom had a tub, a sink, and a bidet. We later found the toilet in the opposite corner of the room in what once must have been a closet.
-JP

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