Hotel Review in Paris: The Duquesne Eiffel Hotel

View of the Eiffel Tower, Our Favorite Small Hotel for a Good Price in Great Neighborhood

On our last visit to Paris we wanted an inexpensive hotel with at least 3 stars to its credit in the 7^th Arrondessment, my favorite neighborhood, which I consider to be the best location in Paris since it's just chock filled with wonderful little restaurants, market streets and lovely, elegant apartment buildings....but best of all, are the many attractions and famous places to see and visit..

The Duquesne Eiffel Hotel was the perfect hotel for all we wanted, even more so...

When I made my reservation I called the hotel to make sure we were able to get a view of the Eiffel Tower...I had read that only one side of the hotel faces that famous icon and I wanted to make sure we would be on that side of the hotel...The person I spoke to told me it would cost a little more but when I said I expected that she told me not to worry, we would be happy with our room.

And so we were...even the name of our room was special...each door had a brass plaque with something Parisian written on it...ours said..Eiffel Tower! I kid you not...:)

The room itself was pleasant enough, with cheery bright colors on the walls, contrasting bedding with Provencal blue and yellow fabric and matching decorative trim on the top of the walls by the ceiling... the bed, two twins put together, was comfortable with side tables and lamps which you could actually read by.. (usually European hotels have very dim lights I have found). There was an armoire, desk chair, and small safe...on the same side of the room was a small closet which had a toilet...the bathroom only had the marble tiled sink and shower/bath combination...so, when you wanted privacy you got it in that separate closet/toilet room..In the bathroom there was a hair dryer and they supplied nice little French shampoos, lotions and soaps and good sized towels...the only thing that was lacking was hook or two to put our bags that held our toiletries.

Best of all was our view!...this was a corner room with floor to ceiling French doors that opened to the sight of La Tour Eiffel in all its glory...I could even see it from the bed!!