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Hotel Bel-Ami Review

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Hôtel Bel-Ami

$$$$, St-Germain-des-Prés

User Rating: *** 3.2

Fodor's Review:

Just a stroll from Café de Flore, this hotel fills up when the fashion circus comes to town. The Bel-Ami hides its past as an 18th-century textile factory behind veneer furnishings and a Nehru-jacketed staff. You're immediately hit by the Conran Shop-meets-espresso bar lobby, with club music and a sleek fireplace lounge to match. There's wireless Internet throughout, and a fitness center with sauna and Tibetan massage treatment rooms. Rooms lean toward minimalist chic in soothing colors but are transformed often to keep up with the hotel's young and trendy clientele.

Member Reviews & Ratings:

Being different

Posted by Serina from Madrid on 3/3/08

If you like not being like everyone, this hotel is for you. The area is formal, historic and intellectual and the hotel is a boutique hotel, design, cares about details and so on. It is a cut hotel to stay in Paris.

ROOM: 4.0

ATMOSPHERE: 4.0

SERVICE: 3.0

VALUE: 4.0

RATING: 3.8

Loved it

Posted by ppugh from California on 6/4/07

Read another review here on line and couldn't believe we stayed in the same hotel. We loved the contemporary decor, our room was small but quiet and very comfortable. Breakfasts, included in the room, were the best we had almost anywhere in France. Our experience with staff was that they were polite, welcoming and helpful. Would definitely go back.

ROOM: 3.0

ATMOSPHERE: 4.0

SERVICE: 5.0

VALUE: 4.0

RATING: 3.8

Seriously unprofessional staff, not worth the money

Posted by George from Athens, Greece on 6/17/06

To start on the positive side, the hotel was well placed in the Paris left bank. However,some incidents really messed up our stay and there's no way those people are seeing my money again! 1st, their staff at the reception proved unbelievably unprofessional. They had my booking all messed up, actually weren't expecting me when I arrived, and believe it or not, were quite confrontational instead of sorry about it. When I mentioned I had called twice for the booking, the receptionist ironically asked if I had called at the Bel Ami hotel! 2nd, rooms have pretty weird metallic noises, either an adjacent old staircase or faulty airconditioning. Had to change rooms twice, the staff were pretending not to be aware of or recognise the problem. Way overpriced and unprofessional for what it offers, your Paris vacation deserves better!

ROOM: 2.0

ATMOSPHERE: 3.0

SERVICE: 1.0

VALUE: 2.0

RATING: 2.0