Hello,
Has anyone stayed at the Campanile Roissy near CDG airport in Paris? Any feedback would be helpful.
Thanks.


Jeff

Campanile hotels are a chain of ultra- cheap places that are, well, Spartan. They cost about $30 a night and are very, very, plain. If all you need is a place to lay your head, it's perfect.

I didn't stay at the Campanile at Roissy but I did stay at the Holiday Inn there. I saw the Campanile, and it looked decent from the outside(for an inexpensive place to stay). The Roissy area is next to the airport with a tiny village adjacent to the series of hotels. We stayed there the night before an early departure and it was quite convenient.

I've stayed at various Campanile Hotels (though not the one at Roissy) and as French chain hotels go, they are certainly not bottom of the range... Indeed, I rather like them! [StCirq, are you sure you are not confusing Campanile with another chain? The standard rate is around 55-60 euros a night - for 30 euros you'd be lucky to get a room at a Formule 1 hotel!!]
Rooms are a decent size and offer tea and coffee making facilities (+cookies!). The design is "motel style" with rooms opening onto an open air balcony/corridor. Have eaten dinner at a Campanile restaurant (through necessity, not choice!) and was pleasantly surprised. Excellent buffet of hors d'oeuvre, with poached salmon, fresh prawns, terrines, cold hams, and several different salads. Very good value.

Thanks for the comments. Does anyone have a website for this hotel? I couldn't locate one on Google.

Jeff

Couldn't find it either. Try this link that shows the hotel, at least:

http://www.parishotelsandguide.com/c...oissy-cdg.html

Hanl:

I'm familiar also with the Formule hotels, which are even tinier and more Spartan than the Campanile. The Campanile I stayed in once was near Arcachon, and I'm quite sure it was the equivalent of about $30 a night (this was several years ago, though, so perhaps they are now more expensive). The room was extremely small, with no balcony, but clean, and no amenities (no soap, no minibar, no tv...). They did have a breakfast buffet, which we didn't eat, so I can't comment. Perhaps they served other meals in the dining room as well, but I don't recall.
At any rate, I had no complaints about the place and suppose that the one at Roissy would be a perfectly adequate place to spend a night.

I haven't stayed at that particular Campanile, but in Paris, there are a number of Campanile properties. They are two-stars, I believe -- nothing special but there is no cookie-cutter design or anything in the city. The breakfast was not bad, by French standards. Campanile is a decent "value" choice:

Here's the official (English) website:

http://www.envergure.fr/campanilefr.html#

I would expect your rate to come in somewhere between 60 and 80 Euros for most Campanile properties, but you'll have to run your specific property and dates to check. (I haven't used Campanile for a couple of years.)

StCirq... I guess that despite the uniform identity these chains try and impose, occasionally standards differ (I recently stayed at two different Ibis hotels: one was dirty, shabby and third-rate, and the other was sparkling clean, spacious and pleasant).
Anyway, having stayed at a couple of Campanile hotels recently, I can confirm that there was soap and TV in the rooms - no minibar or private balcony though

PS The big advantage with these chain hotels is that you can book online, and can easily modify or cancel the reservation free of charge right up till the very last minute...

I would agree with Hanl that Campanile hotels make a good budget choice. I have stayed in several. While they do vary, some do excellent meals and where we used to live outside Paris, the local one was very popular - book ahead only. I have never been in one without soap or a TV. I believe they are run as franchises.

I also thought Campanile were decent 2* hotels about the same as Ibis (or better, sometimes). I wouldn't imagine they have the same price in every city, as most hotels don't and hotels around Paris and Roissy are going to be more expensive than most places in France. There is a Campanile in Prague that is pretty nice for moderate level.

They do have a web site www.campanile.fr but it doesn't seem to work very well.

I don't suppose anyone is going to look for that hotel, but I slipped and meant Krakow, not Prague. That one is not spartan and even has AC, satellite TV, coffeemaker, etc.