Brebant Paris

Small Hotel. Staff Friendly. Very noisy. Decor is ho-hum. Pictures look like a different hotel, really.

What a wonderful hotel especially for the price! the staff are outstanding, the location could not be better about 20 min walk to the Louvre. Ask for room 101 it is right outside the 2nd floor lobby and we were so very happy! Will stay there again! the breakfast was great I love Paris!

I found the hotel to be exactly like it's picture. The metro station is outside the front door. There is a convenient internet cafe literally around the corner. The hotel was very clean, the staff was friendly, the breakfast was adequate. This is definitely a 4 star hotel as far as European accomodations go. The location was FANTASTIC. I would absolutely stay here again.

This hotel has a great location right in front of the Metro Station and is adequate. There is a strong mildew smell! I doubt I would stay there again, would rather take my chances somewhere else. The concierge was very helpful, for a positive.

I have been living in France for over six months now, studying abroad. My dad called me during my February vacation and told me he had booked a trip to Paris, and I was to meet him there. He had put his trust in Northwest to find a hotel for him, and read some reviews from a hotel website on the Brebant. Looked fine to him.When we got there, my dad was surprised by how little the Brebant Hotel resembled the pictures he found on the website. Also, the first appearance of the hotel was nearly disgusting. The reception featured carpet peeling and discolored, it was not spacious, and there were even stains on the floor.The lady at the reception counter spoke English fairly well, which may be one "pro" for English speaking visitors.The first day there was a problem with our room... they had booked it for the wrong dates. Once we got that cleared up, she gave us the keys to our room. (They were actual keys, no electronic card slots here...) We went up to our room, and...low and behold, there is a room with one bed in it. My dad and I weren't exactly in the mood to share a bed, so he went back downstairs to sort the problem out. The lady at the reception apologized for assuming that my dad and I were a couple.... and after a few minutes we finally got into another room with two single beds.The beds were AWFUL. Hard as stone, and the pillows were like rocks. We woke up each and every morning with sore backs, necks, and limbs.The "view" outside of our hotel window didn't help either. We had one wall with two windows, and on that side of the hotel there is a tiny courtyard surrounded by peoples' apartments.Another drawback of the hotel is that you have to return your key to the desk everytime you leave. I spoke to the reception about it, as we were used to leaving out through the restaurant where a "key drop box" is not located, and the man told me that it was okay if I took my key, as long as I acknowledged that we would have to pay a hefty key deposit if it was lost. That was no sweat off our backs, we would rather keep our key than allow the staff to mingle through our things during the day. Well, after a full day exploring Paris and a late night of drinking, we return to the hotel to be yelled at by the guard for not having dropped our key off at the desk before we left. I find that absolutely ridiculous. I was harrassed numerous times by the same guard for not dropping my key in the box, and I was not offered the option (by him) to keep my key, despite the fact that the morning guard said the complete opposite. The very last night, I walked into the hotel and informed the guard that I had my key, and that my dad was finishing a cigar and would be up to join me in a few minutes. I told him this in order to allow my dad to enter the hotel without his key and to take the elevator. The guard replied "Votre P?re????" meaning, "your father???" I said, "Oui, mon P?re" he still didn't believe me. He mustered it out in English: "You mean to say your FATHER?" "Yes," I replied "He is my Father, il est mon p?re, padre!!!"He was very rude.We also dealt with rude cleaning service ladies, who were upset when asked to return after we had left. They also didn't do a very good job of cleaning, they made the beds and vacuumed, which was about it. I guess I am used to American Hotel service, where at even Holiday Inn the maids will take the trash out of the trash cans each day.The rooms are extremely small and unsightly. The only good part of the rooms are the bathrooms, which look fairly recent and very French, although the lighting is awful and there were no hair dryers included. Also, the ability to take a bath in the bathtubs doesn't exist, as the plug doesn't close fully.The "look" to the entire hotel is pretty awful, like a maze of staircases and crooked passageways with tiny rooms. The elevators fit about two people in them, and when they are "full" that means you have to carry your baggage up or down many flights of stairs and narrow corridors. Not to mention that carrying your baggage might smell better than facing the stench in the elevator for the extremely slow decent to the first floor. The look of the hotel is very unorganized, to say the least.Many reviews speak of a continental breakfast, which we had no idea of, but were informed of a breakfast that cost around 7Euros and can be applied to our bill. We never ate there once.We never saw any place to sit down and have coffee or tea, no place to sit down and have a drink either.The perhaps single thing that I liked about the hotel was its location. It was right outside of a metro stop, near plenty of restaurants and very close to the Louvre Museum. We did all of our sightseeing on foot, and it was easy to do with our location. Although this shouldn't entice anyone to spend any money at this particular hotel, because there are plenty more just down the street that looked much nicer.

We chose the Brebant for it's reasonable price. It is conveniently located to a metro station. There are lots of shops and restaurants close by including the Hard Rock Cafe. The hotel's first impression is a very small, shabby-appearing lobby. The hotel corridors are very narrow and again there is a run down appearance to the walls and carpets. The rooms themselves are average and clean. Some of the rooms appear to be have remodeled fairly recently. There was a tub with shower in the bathroom. No wash cloths or hair dryer provided. Because we spent little time in the room, the room and hotel were certainly adequate.

I stayed at the Brebant for 4 nights with my husband and 2 daughters (8 and 11) having transferred from another 3 star hotel - The Chamonix which turned out to be a no star dirty and disgusting place in a very seedy area.

The Brebant was everything you would expect from a 3 star hotel. A previous review has compared it unfairly with a 4 star hotel so I would ignore that one! The one thing the hotel lacked was a public seating area/lounge. There wasn't a bar or coffee/tea making facilities either.

Breakfast was continental and there was plenty of it. I prefer a high protein breakfast myself so this didn't suit me. Our room was newly and very pleasantly decorated and of a medium size. It was a triple room with an extra very sturdy foldaway bed added to it. Despite the extra bed there was sufficient room for manouvre for the 4 of us.

I would recommend the Brebant as a no frills, clean, pleasant and conveniently located hotel with the metro right outside (Grand Boulevarde) although we didn't really use this as it was easy enough to walk to all the sights from here.

Clean, spacious, recently renovated rooms. Poor decoration. Polite staff. Breakfast was ok, but lacked variery. For example, there was no cheese or salami. Public space was practically non-existent. Convenient location close to the Opera. Metro station right outside the hotel.

We were booked into the Brebant by a group with whom we were doing a canal barge trip. We were there the night before the barge trip, and were to stay 5 nights after the trip. We checked out before we left for the barge trip and checked into the Regina, which is lovely, gracious hotel which is where our group was meeting. The rooms in the Brebant were tiny and unattractive, the public rooms were really sad, and we left the hotel for breakfast because the dining room was so noisy and crowded. We've traveled a lot in Europe, but the Brebant will never see us again!

I stayed here last year as part of a tour group; thus I did not personally choose this hotel. It was also my first trip to Europe, so I really had no basis for comparison when it came to European hotels.

According to the literature my tour group was given: "This is a typical Parisian style 3 star hotel, considered superior tourist class, 3 km to city center. All rooms are air conditioned, have satellite tv, direct dial phone, mini bar, laundry facilities, room service, 24 hour portage, voltage 220v. The rooms vary in size and are in good condition. Each is decorated in its own style. Offers a good standard and a good value for the money."

I really enjoyed this hotel. It is in an excellent location, especially as far as convenience goes--there is a Metro entrance literally right outside the front door.

The lobby of the 5 storey hotel is small and unassuming. There is an elevator. Walk up some steep steps and come to a gorgeous upstairs lobby/waiting room with high ceilings, gilt moldings, bright chandeliers, drapes and 16th century reproduction furniture. There is a window overlooking the street. My room was right off the upstairs lobby, at the end of a narrow long hallway.

It was small, but comfortable, nicely decorated but not fancy, with two comfortable small beds side by side, a narrow, tall window that looked onto the side of the building next to ours and a tiny yard below, and a small but perfectly clean and nice bathroom. It had a bidet and one of those showers that makes the entire bathroom take a shower with you. I felt perfectly comfortable in this room. It may have been jet lag, or being a tourist all day, but when I fell into bed at night, I was down for the count and I usually have a hard time sleeping in strange beds in strange places.

The only thing I didn't like was the evil telephone, this old black thing that had the most horrible and loud ring I've ever heard. It was a very European ring, to be sure, which got brownie points for quaintness, but still rather jarring.

The hotel's group dining room off the main restaurant was small and cute, interior, thus no windows. The hotel served a delicious breakfast. It had a nice selection of croissants, cereals, yogurt, fruit, juices, hot chocolate and good coffee. Many "continental" style hotel breakfasts are quite disappointing--but this was for me was really enjoyable.

There are two restaurants flanking the hotel, one I ate at and was rather disappointed in, the Brebant, and the other was the hotel's own restaurant, which I didn't eat at.

I think someone who needs a good, basic but not swanky, comfortable hotel near a Metro stop in a nice part of Paris would be happy here.

It is in a great part of the old city, with lots of restaurants and shops right there. There is also a post office location several blocks away. There's a Hard Rock Cafe and a T.G.I. Friday's right down the street, if you like that sort of place.

I ate at this T.G.I. Fridays twice (not by choice!) and found the food to be not that exciting. But it's got a very lively atmosphere and for homesick Americans, I'm sure it's the place to be.

In walking up and down the streets around the hotel, I found into several nice bookstores; my favorite places to be. I had an amazing chocolate crepe at a little cafe nearby. Window shopped in some amazing looking places. Bought a gorgeous purple velvet cloak at one middle eastern decor shop. In other words, I found this location great for just walking around, plenty of stuff to see and do.