Description: The Londres et D'Anvers is one of the many small, unpretentious hotels which line the streets around the Gare du Nord. A friendly and fairly comfortable 2-star hotel, it's a good budget option- and the best thing about it is its location- within 2 minutes' walk from one of Paris' biggest train stations- particularly good as we'd travelled here through the Chunnel from London- all we had to do was walk down from the train station to the hotel- very convenient!
We'd booked a double room- fortunately enough we were given one on the 4th floor (fortunate, because the lift doesn't go beyond the 5th floor). A small room overlooking the street, it had a rather cramped bed, but with the deepest, softest mattress imaginable! Not much else in the way of furniture, though- a chair, a luggage rack, and a TV which ran French-only channels.
Most of our entertainment was restricted to people-watching from the windows.
The Londres et D'Anvers doesn't pride itself on being a F&B-oriented hotel: the only place you can get anything to eat is the tiny cafe in the lobby where you get breakfast, tea and coffee or juice. The cafe serves the most heavenly croissants, plum jam and coffee for breakfast. Don't mind the snooty black cat which glares at you while you're tucking into brekker, though!
The tariff (bed and breakfast) for a double room works out to about 36 euros. Unpretentious and good value for money.
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