Editor Pick
Citea La Defense Place Charras
- August 7, 2007
- Rated 3 of 5 by
rufusni from Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
The main reason I booked this place was a special offer, and as I was travelling alone an apartment seemed a good idea. I booked to stay only for a few nights but I think many people live here on short term leases, not that this posed any problems. However, this means that there are few facilities in the hotel. I arrived to find I had been upgraded for free to a larger apartment which is was good. It consisted of a largish room with a double and single bed, a table and kitchen chairs. There was a small kitchenette off the room with a fridge, small cooker and some simple crockery, pots and pans, designed to allow for simple meals. The bathroom was adequate but quite small, but the extraction system wasn't great. The most pleasant thing about the room were the large windows that open inwards that had a great view over Paris, including the glittering Eiffel Tower.
The hotel is a good ten - fifteen minute walk from the metro in La Defense- but it is a pleasant walk through a park walkway. The area around the hotel is quite residential. The hotel is set across the street from a small park that has a good playground, which is busy well into the evening. Around the corner are quite a few shops including bakeries, grocery, and so on and several restaurants very close by. The area seems to be quite safe, I felt quite comfortable here even after dark. However, La Defense is the closest metro station, and as La Defense is the financial district, it can be a little eerie and empty in the later evening/night-time, so as I was by myself I tended to head back to the hotel by about 9pm at the latest.
There are advantages to the hotel but its location is a fair walk from La Defense which is at the end of a metro line, so it can take a while to get into the centre. It really depends what you are looking for whether this hotel will suit you are not.
From journal Exploring Paris