ibis Paris Gare du Nord TGV

Super central location, right across from Gare du Nord. Makes it a great place to be if you need to be close to the trains, and also if you need to drop things off between your shopping trip. It is a busy area, with a lot of different restaurants which can be crowded sometimes, but it is well connected by trains (Metro, RER) and buses (I took one from the Louvre straight back to Gare du Nord). The staff were very friendly and allowed me to check in earlier than normal, which I was very thankful for as I was very tired from my trip. The room it self is very clean, bed is comfortable and overall a basic setup - you get what you pay for! The airconditioner in the room did not work properly and started making noise at night - so much that I couldn't sleep. The noise would stop when I turned it off, but then it was too hot to sleep! I ended up leaving early in the morning because of this - and explained to the front desk about the problem, they assured me that it would be attended to.

Having spent 4 nights in a hotel in Bastille, we needed an extra night due to our Eurostar being cancelled. The location was perfect and made our travel home very easy and stress free. The man on the front desk was absolutely fantastic, a real credit to IBIS and I'm sure will go far! He was friendly, accommodating, knowledgeable and funny. Apologies that we did not catch his name! The room/hotel was basic (which we expected) but clean and had what we needed for the night (although tea/coffee making facilities would have been nice), lovely large window/french balcony, and comfortable enough. Did not have the breakfast, although booking.com said it was included in the room price, hotel advised we did not have breakfast included - but had a lovely breakfast locally anyway.

Six floors with only one slow lift for 2 people is inadequte, particularly when the main selling point of the hotel is proximity to GDN station. Being stuck on the 6th floor with luggage waiting ages for the lift when you have a train to catch is unnecessarily stressful. Room expensive, small and poorly equiped. At half the price might just have been acceptable but would at least expect a kettle to be able to make a cup of tea or coffee

Very thing was fine but there room smells bad

The staff were helpful and polite. The location was perfect for our needs. The rooms and bathrooms were very clean.