Nomad Hotel Dijon

Clean and staff were friendly and helpful

Very minimalist- had to purchase any extras which does start getting rather expensive

L’ensemble

Rien

Les chambres et la qualité du petit déjeuner. Gros plus pour la salle de sport, la terrasse extérieur et la piscine.

L’odeur de chlore lié à la piscine.

Location was good, not too far from the center, tad on the seedy side, but not bad. Breakfast was pretty basic, but decent. The bacon was crispy :-) Well worth 10 Euro. The staff was friendly and helpful. Well, except for the guy who confused "parking is in front of the hotel" (there was a busy street in front the hotel) with "parking is across the street" and then got miffed because I did not understand and he had to come out and show me (which he did, which was nice).

Evidently, someone went to a lot of trouble making the room look stylish and modern, but it kinda fell flat. For example the touchscreen. It did control the TV and the lights but not the airconditioning. That choice seems a bit random. Why bother with a touchscreen that only controls part of the room. Also, the TV was a projector not a TV. OK, stylish I admit, but the projector's standby light was right above the bed, bright as hell, could not be turned off. Fortunately, I travel with eye shades, otherwise I might have gone blind. While on the subject of annoying, the air ducts hummed (really loud) even when the air-conditioning was off. Fortunately I travel with ear plugs, otherwise I might have gone deaf. Back to the touchscreen. Whoever put it in, didn't think of actual humans. The placement was awful. For example, changing TV channels required one to contort 180 degrees and find the right virtual button. Personally, I like to surf channels so I like a remote I can hold in my hand. Fortunately, the only thing on were a few local channels, so I only turned the TV on once (about 3 minutes) to see what the touchscreen controlled (but that didn't stop the projector's standby light from trying to keep me up all night). Also, the interaction between touchscreen and the light switches was pretty random. Honestly, I don't want to have to read a manual to find out how to turn on the bathroom light without the shower light going into pink, mood light mode. (though did finally figure it out eventually, which I'm proud of myself for). BTW, I'm less proud I never figured out how the fan in the toilet turned on (pretty stinky). And then there was the shower. A glass conch shell taking up a third of the room. Sure it looked cool, but the room could have been 20% bigger with a regular door. And, the hose was way too short, but that's only nit picking. While on the subject nit picking, it would have been nice to have glass glasses not paper cups.