Best Western Select Hotel

There are some nice new boutique hotels in Boulogne but this is not one of them. The hotel is undergoing renovation but there is no mention of this on the site and no discount offered for the stench of paint, the dust everywhere and the fact that you get woken up at 8.30 by drilling and banging. It is a good job that they are renovating because my room looked like a badly maintained prison cell from a 1950s jail. The food at breakfast was not much better that you would expect in an institute of correction. Industrial juice, discount ham, microwaved pastries and coffee that tasted like old socks. Really! Who runs this kind of place these days. Also the sound insulation between rooms was non existent so you could hear the guy next door coughing and taking a leak. I complained to one of the housekeeping staff about the state of the bathroom and was roundly told where to get off. If you have ever seen Fawlty Towers prepare for something rather worse. The only redeeming feature was Eva at reception who was clearly deeply embarrassed to be working there and who did everything in her power to make up for the hotel's deficiencies and who gave us some great restaurant recommendations and was always helpful and charming. Don't stay here if you have a choice! less

Some of the reviews are not very flattering so I'm guessing they stayed in non renovated rooms. My room was brand "new" so everything was clean and new. Loved it. Yes the room is small - it is Paris afterall. The elevator is the smallest you will have ever seen/stood in - anywhere! Lovely visit, staff was very friendly. less

I rarely give a grade of 1/%, but the room was small with a terrible smell of painting (the hotel is under renovation), the wifi not working properly, the lift broken, the breakfast poor, the staff ok but you would expect a bit more. I often go to B-B because of my work, and I know there are better alternatives around there. less

The Best Western Select Hotel in Boulogne-Billancourt can probably be best described as ‘basic’. It’s a place to sleep. A step up from a YHA ... but not a big step up. In fact, I've stayed at youth hostels that are significantly better. I’m not sure if it’s indicative of the entire hotel, but the room that I stayed in (room 3) is VERY small. There’s just about enough room for a double bed (I would estimate that it was queen sized) with a little room for one person to walk around it. It had a tiny en-suite bathroom that had a sink, toilet and (small) bath. The bath had a shower attachment, but no shower curtain so it’s a ‘sit down’ shower’. There was a table in the room and just enough room to sit in a seat (pushed hard against the bed) and do a little work. When I first entered the room … it was very hot. There was a temperature control unit on the wall, and since the hotel claimed it had A/C, I tried it. It didn’t work, so I opened a window. Luckily, it was a cool evening in Paris so the room did begin to drop in temperature. If it’d been a hot night I think that it would have been very uncomfortable in there. The general décor is what I would describe as … shabby. Not shabby chic, just shabby. It looks as if it was last refurbished in the 70’s, and it really needs a thorough update. Everything is old, cracked, and chipped. The view from my room was a wall with a big silver pipe going up it and some kind of mechanical apparatus directly outside of the window. The room came with a kettle, one mug, a couple of sachets of instant coffee and a tea bag together with some sugar and creamer. I tried the coffee, I can’t remember what brand it was, but it was pretty awful. The rooms have poor sound proofing and you can hear everybody around you. Also, for some reason, my room must’ve been near some kind of water tank because every 10-15 minutes there was a sudden sound of rushing water. Kind of like a toilet flushing. I am soooooooo grateful that I found some earplugs in my bag or else I would have had no sleep. A final point, I made the mistake of having breakfast at the hotel. There really wasn’t much. Some cereal, a bowl of fruit cocktail, a few pastries, some ham and cheese, juice and a roll. Didn’t even have any croissants! Everything was clearly mass produced with nothing fresh and the breakfast room was (like everything else in the hotel) small and cramped. Thankfully, there was only one other person in the room. This breakfast cost me €15. It was not worth it. Overall, this is a sad little hotel. less

Average hotel. 2 minutes walk to metro station ( line 9). Good and friendly staff, good wifi, bed and pillows ok, quite unless you opened the window. Very basic breakfast: ham, boiled eggs, butter, jam, juice. No fresh fruit or vegetables. less