All paris experts please help? My husband and I are planning our Europe trip. We are staying at both two star hotels -luxury. Has anyone stayed at these hotels?<BR><BR>Hotel Minerve -paris<BR>Brenners Park Spa-_baden baden<BR>Sheraton - Salzburg<BR>Hotel Arepurg (sp)- Vienna<BR><BR>Planning to spend night in Munich before heading to Salzburg next morning. Need charming inn in Munich or nearby? <BR>Thanks !<BR><BR>

Here's what some people who stayed there said about it:<BR>Hotel Minerve (2 star left bank)-<BR>just a place to sleep.<BR>rooms are very small, the bathrooms even smaller<BR>clean<BR>streetside rooms NOISY<BR>staff was friendly and helpful<BR>it was adequate<BR>renovated 3/00 For more Paris information e-mail me- [email protected]<BR>

UGH! Don't ever ever ever stay at the Hotel Minerve. The staff was indifferent to our needs, and smug &amp; arrogant about themselves. I always love Paris no matter what, and if not for that fact I'd say the Minerve staff would have ruined my trip. I hated it!<BR><BR>Stay somewhere else! Run while you can! There are better places to stay for the same price.

I'm staying at the Minerve in May. It is owned by Eric Gaucheron, who owns the Familia next door, where I have stayed 4 times (unfortunately booked this time). A friend in my office stayed at the Minerve last October and said it was fine. Small rooms and bathrooms, but most are. The location is great. I don't care since I'm only in the room to sleep anyway. Good Luck

I knew that the Minerve was owned by the same people as the Familia....however, we ran into so many problems that fell on deaf ears. So I went next door to complain, and the Familia staff was VERY quick to distance themselves from the Minerve, saying that they were the same owner but by no means the same hotel. Please keep in mind, we weren't the only hotel guests who were unhappy.

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I'm staying there in March. Melissa, what kind of complaints did you have? I have heard good things in the past about it.

Hi Ann, I posted way earlier--if you do a search on this thread for Minerve. I'll put it in a nutshell so I don't have to relive the trauma. But basically, the service was really really bad, they gave us the runaround and were very indifferent to us. We had even made easy suggestions, but they wouldn't help us. Finally one woman at the front desk helped us, but I think it took 4 days to get our problems resolved. When I went next door to the Familia to complain (knowing it was the same owner), they were very quick to separate themselves from the Minerve! And, I know it wasn't my imagination because many other patrons in the hotel were experiencing the same thing.<BR><BR>I think that the experience really put a damper on our trip. I've stayed in some dumps before where the staff was terrific, and that made all the difference.

I loved the Sheraton in Salzburg! We usually travel budget hotels, but when my husband had the stomach flu and we had to extend our stay in Salzburg, I was lucky enough to find the Sheraton and get a good rate from them. A beautiful hotel, wonderful staff, overlooking a park on the back, not too far from old town, and across a big street (Rainerstrasse) in the other direction up a block is a nice shopping street (Faberstrasse). I was so rushed the early morning that we left that I forgot all my underwear in a drawer and when I arrived home, there it was in a package they had sent.

You might be interested in Hotel St. Jacques, also on rue des Ecoles, if you are thinking of changing from Minerve, though I do recall hearing good things about M. Try www.france.com