Hi. Ill be staying at the Grand Hotel Amelot in the 11 district. Has anybody heard of/stayed there? Also, how is the 11 district. safe? plenty to do? i keep researching it and i dont find out much..
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I know where your hotel is on the rue Amelot, but that is about all I can say. I%26#39;ve never stayed there nor even looked inside it...
The rue Amelot is a pleasant enough and fairly quiet street running more or less parallel to the main boulevard between the place de la Bastille and the place de la Republique.
Cross this boulevard to the west and you will be in the Marais, one of my favorite areas in paris. Fascinating architecture, interesting shops, good cafes and retaurants by the ton, and several excellent museums.
About a quarter mile to the north of your hotel is the Oberkampf district, widely rumored to be the most happening part of paris nightlife-wise. Plenty of good places to eat and/or sit here too...
A quarter mile south is the Bastille which is also lively and interesting with more restaurant and cafe choices...
To the east there are a whole slew of very typical Paris neighborhoods, some more iimmediately attractive than others, but with plenty of interest. And a bit further east is the Pere Lachaise cemetery.
And finally you are very close to the Canal St Martin which is worth investiagating...
All these areas are safe, generally speaking, as is most of central Paris, provided you exercise ordinary common sense, and are aware of what is going on around you.
By the way, there is a restaurant on the same street as your hotel, C%26#39;Amelot (punny, no?) which I have looked at a few times but never tried. If you should happen to go there I%26#39;d love to hear what you thought of it...
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I%26#39;m not sure if you have already gone on your trip but I wanted to let you know that I have stayed at this hotel and it is very nice. Good prices and in a great location. As IrishRovr said you are one block off of Blvd. Beaumarchais which is the separating street between the 4th and the 11th. Hope you enjoy it!!
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I just came back from Europe and had stayed at the Grand Hotel Amelot. My feedback might be a little late for you since it%26#39;s mid-August already, but it might help the next person.
The Grand Hotel Amelot is okay, definitely not great, very basic.
I picked this hotel because it%26#39;s difficult to find an inexpensive hotel with air-conditioning for 4 people. The room is very small as expected, beds are low and one bed with dead spring and the other is foam. I did not sleep well the three nights I stayed there. There is a small TV mounted near the ceiling, the coat cabinet is old with one handle missing. The room has 2 wooden chairs and one full length mirror, no peep hole on door and no %26quot;privacy please%26quot; door hanger. Air-conditioning is the portable type and it worked fine. Wall paper are peeling at several places and cracked paint on ceiling.
Bathroom is very small and no place to hang anything, even the towels. you are given plastic cups and one tiny bar of soap for each person. Lights are dim and there wasn%26#39;t any water pressure when taking shower. Took a long time for hot water to kick in and fade in and and out during shower. I did not wash my hair the whole time there because the water was very weak and just felt like small stream of water drippling down.
The elevator was out-of-order the whole time we were there and the banging of repairing the elevator started around 9 in the morning.
The location is not bad, close to at least 3 metro. 15 to 20 minutes walk to Bastill plaza. A tiny grocery store just up the block and 2 supermarkets nearby. A spanish restaurant next store but was closed the time we were there, a Chinese takeout was opened and just next to this spanish restaurant. The neighborhood is okay but a lot of stores were closed the time we were there (early August), I also noticed some homeless people.
Overall, the place is okay but next time I think I would rather spend a little more and stay at a more pleasant hotel. The staff was okay, did not seem to speak much English but definitely not rude. The internet near the reception was broken and a vending machine at the lobby. Did not take the breakfast option so no comment. The hotel also lets you leave the luggage with them after checkout.
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Don%26#39;t know the hotel but it sounds pretty bad even by cheap standards. We have stayed in 2 and 3 star hotels around the Gare du Nord and always had better rooms than that.
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I meant to stay at this hotel myself and a couple of days before i and 5 other people in our group were due to leave, 4 of them cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances out of our control. We booked through another website and for this reason the Grand Hotel Amelot refused to amend to price of our bookings. Which meant that although only one out of the 3 rooms we%26#39;d booked would be occupied for the 4 nights we were to stay, the three of them would be billed for the entire stay. Not only did they refuse to change the price because they %26quot;had to pay a charge to the website that(we) used%26quot; but as I tried to negociate, the personnel was very rude to me. I spoke to them in French as I am French and they didn%26#39;t speak English, and I thought we could find a deal but no. So we had to do a no-show not to waste so much money.
I don%26#39;t what the hotel quality is like but with such a rude personnel, they can be sure I will never stay one second in this hotel.
