Hôtel Le Notre Dame Saint Michel

I am 60 years old, went on a business trip, had no idea that I was going 'camping'. The room I had, which I was unaware of, was a loft so in order to get to the bed I had to take some very steep stairs to get to this loft. Not a good thing when you have to go to bed in the middle of the night. The décor was interesting to say the least, nothing like the pictures on the internet. Breakfast was a plate of bread. Staff was very nice for the most part. You have to climb a narrow flight of stairs to get to the reception area, not so fun after a 10 hour flight of no sleep.

Lift? and Laundry. The hotel summary and list of facilities includes a lift and self service laundry. There is no laundry. The hotel reception is on the first floor up a steep staircase with narrow treads and a bend at the top. The lift only goes up from the reception level. If you are not young and fit or have small lite bags the stairs are quite dangerous. There is no porter or help available. The only reference to the stairs is in the hotels policy statement regarding lack of wheel chair access, stating that reception is only accessible by stairs. No mention of reception being one flight up. There is a caution to call the hotel if you have difficulty with stairs, we took this to be directed to people with a disability. The lift itself is very small we needed two trips to reach our room (2 adults with 2 airline size bags) Breakfast. We came to this hotel near the end of a one month tour through Italy France and to Barcelona. Continental breakfasts at all other hotels (15 hotels) always included a selection of muesli and cereals fruits and nuts yoghurts cold meat and cheeses, breads and pastries in a buffet. At this hotel you sit and are given a plate with 2 large croissants, a piece of baguette with butter and jam, a glass of orange juice if you ask for it and coffee or tea (really bad tea). On a bar there is bowl with 2 or 3 apples and oranges and a plate with 2 kids cereal boxes (cornflakes and coco pops). For one brekky maybe not for 4 as was our stay.