Nationality Stayed Gender Age Group Overall Rating Canada 6th October 2008 Couple 18-24 2/5 Comments: Directions weren't clear. They never changed our sheets or towels. Really expensive for the location. We put in one room and then had to switch to another room.

Nationality Stayed Gender Age Group Overall Rating - 11th September 2008 Couple 18-24 2/5 Comments: We stayed in a private room with a double bed (sofa) at this hostel and the whole place was very clean. We had our own bathroom and shower, our own kitchen w/ refrigerator and a TV. The bad thing is that its in zone 3 and with the train (RER) it takes you about half an hour to get to the center of Paris, unfortunately the train didnt work the two last days of our stay so we had to first take the bus to the metro station and then take the metro into the city...that took exactly one hour. It doesnt look safe to wander about in the area at night so we always took the bus that stopped right outside the hostel. Sometimes they had a security guard at the entrance. Recommended for those who won't mind a long ride to the city and who dont care much for the nightlife (as the metro and train stops going at midnight or so), you get a private room for a good price, and they had rooms available when we booked it just the night before. The next time though im gonna get a room at a hostel in the center of the city. By the way: call the hostel for better directions, there's a bus you can take that takes you right to their doorstep.

Nationality Stayed Gender Age Group Overall Rating USA 19th July 2008 Female 25-30 4/5 Comments: It was a LOOONG train ride from Paris to the apartment. Were it not for a friendly little lady, we would've never found it. I'm so glad we did, though. Staff was fabulous, place secure-just a great respite altogether.

Nationality Stayed Gender Age Group Overall Rating India 5th August 2008 Male 31-40 3/5 Comments: Hi all! Not bad deal price to location. Go to gare du nord, take RER B1 to St. Denis. Take bus 154 for ESS. Second stop in epinay. With RER C, Get down at ESS, come out station, Go straight to IBIS hotel. From there Left to petrol pump and next to it is your place to stay Its nice place to stay but in apartment for two, they had given sofa bed and hot water was not really hot but warm... Thats it. ENJOY TRIP TO PARIS THEN....

Nationality Stayed Gender Age Group Overall Rating Sweden 28th July 2008 Couple 41+ 3/5 Comments: Too far from the central city. The description of the way to the hotel could have been better. It was only one cup and one glass in the apartment. We asked for more but didn´t get anything.

Nationality Stayed Gender Age Group Overall Rating Australia 17th July 2008 Male 18-24 2/5 Comments: this place was so bad that we had to clean the rooms to perfection before we were aloud to leave...i recomend not staying and wasting your time and money

Nationality Stayed Gender Age Group Overall Rating France 8th July 2008 Couple 18-24 1/5 Comments: id advise you not to go here at all the apartment consists of two rooms and one is the bathroom, basically you kitchen, sitting room and bedroom are all in one room the bed we got was a broken foldout couch woke up at 3.30am the first night and the bed had started folding back on us. the staff are unbelievably rude and wont help you if your lost and cant find your way to the hotel as the directions they gave are completely incorrect i would never stay here again!!!

Nationality Stayed Gender Age Group Overall Rating Australia 8th July 2008 Female 41+ 2/5 Comments: THE MAN AND WOMAN AT RECEPTION WERE EXTREMELY RUDE. WE HAD TO WAIT 4.5 HOURS FOR OUR APARTMENT WHEN WE WERE TOLD TO BOOK IN AT 1.P.M.

Nationality Stayed Gender Age Group Overall Rating Russia 12th May 2008 - - 3/5 Comments: Air-conditioner control blocked / noisy when windows on street-side. Small luggage-storing room. No WiFi or just Internet conn in rooms.

Nationality Stayed Gender Age Group Overall Rating USA 21st June 2008 Female 18-24 3/5 Comments: I thought it was really strange that they expected you to clean the rooms but did not provide cleaning products. As someone travelling, it doesn't make sense to buy cleaning products and then have to immediately discard them because you have to travel onto the next destination. A bit out of the way, which was especially a problem at night.

Nationality Stayed Gender Age Group Overall Rating USA 21st June 2008 Male 18-24 1/5 Comments: Take the time and look for something else. An emergency came up and I had to cancel my reservation and despite I did it the day before, they still charged me the stay. They were really rude about it. I would suggest you look for a more tourist friendly hostel.

Nationality Stayed Gender Age Group Overall Rating Australia 12th June 2008 Couple 41+ 3/5 Comments: Location is a little remote. For an apartment, need to take all cleaning materials, as none supplied; not even a tea towel for washing/drying up.

Nationality Stayed Gender Age Group Overall Rating France 10th June 2008 Couple 18-24 3/5 Comments: very nice room with everything needed, except the cleaning stuff. its very hard to clean all the things without providing any washing materials. the room is quite small but well equipped. station is quite far away from the residence(10mins walk). tickets for Paris are useless for the zone but every one passing the gate without tickets. get off the station and pass through the ticket office, go straight until you see the ibis hotel and turn left to the end of the road, you can find the Hotel Balladins(same location with Résidence de la Seine). it takes about 40 mins to get to Eiffel tower. tains leave every 10 mins in the peak hr and 15-30 mins at night time.

Nationality Stayed Gender Age Group Overall Rating - 10th June 2008 Female 18-24 4/5 Comments: very friendly staff and close to a good RER line for tourist sites. had a lovely stay!

Nationality Stayed Gender Age Group Overall Rating Canada 1st May 2008 Female 18-24 2/5 Comments: Very far from Paris city centre. It was hard to find and the directions provided are very poor. Staff was friendly though.

Nationality Stayed Gender Age Group Overall Rating Sweden 17th May 2008 - - 4/5 Comments: Very good. Not exensive, you dont need to missed something there. they have all things you can need. Food,something to drink micro mm

Nationality Stayed Gender Age Group Overall Rating - 10th May 2008 Female 25-30 2/5 Comments: Advantage: very big room and new furniture. Disadvantage: It's in zone 3. Notice: They require photocopies of your passport and credit card. The bed in our room (twin private) is a sofa bed.

Nationality Stayed Gender Age Group Overall Rating New Zealand 22nd April 2008 Couple 25-30 3/5 Comments: Great place to stay - it was so nice to have our own cooking facilities and bathroom, very modern too. Location was quite far away and hard to find but the train left for the city very often.

Nationality Stayed Gender Age Group Overall Rating England 14th April 2008 Male 31-40 3/5 Comments: The room was as expected. It was clean with modern fixtures & fittings. Only 2 minor grumbles - the internet connection lead was very short, and they were not able to provide a second blanket when asked. Otherwise everything was OK!

Nationality Stayed Gender Age Group Overall Rating Ireland 3rd April 2008 Female 18-24 4/5 Comments: Its 15minutes from the centre of paris by train,but the train is a 5minute walk and the area is nice and has everything you need close at hand. the staff are friendly and also speak english. i would definatley return. It is also a bargain for what you get.

Nationality Stayed Gender Age Group Overall Rating Sweden 15th March 2008 Male 41+ 3/5 Comments: We had a pleasant and very nice stay at your hostel. The apartment included what we needed. Perhaps though the equipment for cleaning might be better.Thank you for a nice week.

Nationality Stayed Gender Age Group Overall Rating Netherlands 29th February 2008 Female 41+ 3/5 Comments: Excellent buffet breakfast and good value. Room was clean and comfortable, but I would have appreciated more cleaning products in order to carry out the required cleaning.

Nationality Stayed Gender Age Group Overall Rating Canada 24th February 2008 Mixed Group 18-24 2/5 Comments: Our bed was garbage, and they tried to blame us for breaking it!!! The hotel itself isn't too bad, but for the cost you would expect a bed that doesn't break on you midway through the night.

Nationality Stayed Gender Age Group Overall Rating Scotland 7th December 2007 Female 41+ 3/5 Comments: the apartment was fablous but it was in a hotel and this was not on the directions the female staff were great the night staff were horrible but i would recommend this apartment to everyone

Nationality Stayed Gender Age Group Overall Rating Mexico 19th January 2008 Mixed Group 18-24 3/5 Comments: we payed our total, and were charged an extra night, i still dont get a reasonable answer. Take your printed online reservations, since they will probably wont have them.

Nationality Stayed Gender Age Group Overall Rating Sweden 8th December 2007 Female 25-30 3/5 Comments: the firealarm went off during our stay and the staff only provided instructions and explanations in french which is not good for all of us who do not know any french! in that situation they have to be able to speak at lest english as well to make sure everyone understands them. we suspect that there was also some new staff on training which was obvious and had some effects but all staff was working hard and did their best! a really nice place that we look forward to visiting again!

Nationality Stayed Gender Age Group Overall Rating Latvia 26th December 2007 - - 1/5 Comments: hi.I've been overgargre by the receptionist for 60euros. and i still did not get my money back.i could not find the manager for 3 days to get refund,eventualy he arrived,but refusedt to refund saying it will be done later,but so far i got nothing.FELLOW TRAVELERS!!!!!! If u wanna enjoy ur trip to Paris DO NOT USE RESIDENCE DE LA SEINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nationality Stayed Gender Age Group Overall Rating South Korea 19th May 2007 Female 18-24 3/5 Comments: Great Place to stay!

Nationality Stayed Gender Age Group Overall Rating Brazil 3rd December 2007 Couple 41+ 2/5 Comments: I never saw in the world a pension, hostel or hotel where the PROPER client has to clean the room!The attendants are not gentile, do not give information. I can inform that this was the worse hostel (and most expensive) of all the ones that we were in this trip (Portugal, Spain, Germany, Sweden).

Nationality Stayed Gender Age Group Overall Rating Australia 3rd November 2007 Couple 18-24 2/5 Comments: After reading other reviews on this place, good and bad, I was a bit anxious to see what it was really like for myself!! We where first a bit confused as when we came to the train stop genevillers (One before epinay, the one you get off at) we saw a hotel called hotel balladins (what the hotel is actually called) we thought that could be it but there is a chain of hotels called hotel balladins so this one wasn't our stop. Once we got off at Epinay station it took about 5 minutes to walk to the hotel. On checking in the staff where a little vague. Our room was nice we knew our bed was going to be a sofa bed which was actually quite comfortable. The room was tidy enough. When you check out you do have to clean your own room which if you don't the hotel will charge you 40 Euro to do it which they don't tell you when you check in. The internet is free if you have your own laptop and there is a cable in your room that you plug into, in the lobby the internet will cost you 3 Euro for 15 Minutes or 5 Euro for 30 Minutes. Expensive Overall the Hotel was what we where looking for somewhere, where we could crash at night and have a little privacy (Been Paris and all..) and go out during the day with our belongings been safe, however almost next door is the hotel Ibis a well known hotel chain that have Rooms for 2 People for 46 Euro If I where to go to Paris again I think that we would stay there. (I'm sure you don't have to clean your room at the end of your stay)