Hotel France Louvre, Paris

The hotel had a great location, but the room was simply OK. The very patient staff was nice. The shower stall was frighteningly small. The dining room was quaint.

Despite the fact that the room is tiny - the welcoming and helpful staff more than make up for the initial shick. The hotel's central location made it easy to head to the many monuments in the area. Please note that the view from the front of the hotel rooms is much nicer - so it is helpoful to request, if possible.

i loved the breskfest in the cellar. the people were very nice and helpful. so friendly!

We travel in Europe a lot and our 2001 stay at the France Louvre was so absurdly frustrating it has become, in the intervening years, almost funny. Our room was shockingly shabby, the safe key had, evidently, been lost years before and we (literally) couldn't open the window without moving the bed to the other side of the room. What a drab and dreadful little place. Please, please don't stay here if you have dust allergies.

The hotel France Louvre was without a doubt the worst hotel we've ever experienced. Our room #42 didn't face the rue de Rivoli, but instead the inner "courtyard" if it can be called that, which was like a dilapidated slum covered with a some kind of slimy residue and with big areas of cracked peeling paint and strange hanging rags outside on various windows. It was by no means charming. More like vomit inducing. When I opened the window out to this area, there was a wave of stale air that made me almost feel like falling into this pit. That would've really been a miserable beginning to our paris trip! In addition the lobby had a large area of the ceiling that was flaking off. We paid for a double room but it was the size of a small single with a twin bed jammed up into a corner so that there was only a thin sliver of floor space. The bathroom was the size of a closet, so the shower was pressed up against the toilet. My wife noticed the odor of urine in the shower and theorized that it was due to this proximity. The curtain was old and over time it accumulated the urine smell. The room temperature and ventilation controls didn't work and we really didn't want to let in the stale air from the pit inside. The sheets and floor were not clean, and my wife had flea bites that night from the bed. I felt like stretching my legs on the floor since we had done so much walking on our first day, but the carpet wasn't clean, it had some kind of dirt stains on it, so I ended up putting a towel over this just to avoid getting dirty. We had a chance to see a room that faced the street and it was in better shape than the inside rooms, modestly but noticably bigger and the view of the street was decent. I suppose the 3 star classification may have been based on these types of rooms, but it is an extremely deceptive business practice to advertise and market rooms that are of 3 star quality and comfort, and instead be given a room that is extremely small, dirty, distasteful and lacking in convenience features and is obviously of a much lower standard.