Hôtel Odyssey

Hotel was clean and nice and in a good location

Major downside that they don't tell you about - they block a large amount of money on your card without telling you when you check in - way more than the room cost as some kind of insurance. I think ours was 300 euros and the rooms were 90 euros. They don't ask for a credit card or tell you about this, they do it on a debit card which meant that we were not able to go to the show we had planned in Paris as they had taken the money. It was refunded to my account around 3-4 days after we left Paris. If they had been honest about this we would happily have left a credit card. They were very cagey and weird about it when we asked the staff because we found it on our bank statements that it was missing, and to be honest we thought we had been scammed and weren't going to get the money back. We did, but it all made us very uncomfortable and we chose to move to another hotel as we didn't feel very safe there after the interactions with staff.

Friendliness

No pool

Very central, clean rooms and breakfast was lovely

The Location is good. The staffs is very helpful.

The room is poorly designed, perhaps not intended for the average traveler. The corridor is narrow, and the bathroom lacks a door, making it awkward to navigate. Getting in and out of bed requires climbing over it like a cave, which has led to us bumping our heads a few times. Plus no neutral night anyway uncomfortable!