Priceline Hotel: 4* Paris (Eiffel Tower-Grenelle-Montparnasse) Hilton Paris

[RobC]

We got a room at the Hilton Eiffel Tower location on a Priceline bid of $141 US in August 2008.

The price and hotel were brilliant for the amount paid.

If I had been paying the rack rate I'd have been very upset. The hotel is showing it's

age and getting a bit frayed around the edges. We stayed in several other hotels

in France of lesser perceived quality yet this was the only one with a CRT television...

the others had LCDs. The hairdryer was mounted so high that my wife

and daughter could barely use it.

The air conditioning never worked during our stay. Luckily it was just cool enough in

the evenings that opening the windows sufficed. I mentioned the problem when

we checked out and was told that the AC was off in all the rooms as the temperature

was not high enough! Tell that to someone was was paying over $500 a night!

I overheard a doorman tell a guest he was told they would soon be in another chain

and no longer a Hilton.

All in all we got great value for what we paid. But this in no longer a 4* hotel.

Rob