49 Reviews
Hotel Mercure Paris Gennevilliers
Gennevilliers|0.28km from Parc des Chanteraines - Secteur Les Louvresses
A nicely appointed modern hotel in a bizarre location surrounded by office blocks, industrial units and a railway line.We were on a coach tour and this was our last night stopover before heading for the ferry at Calais. Our courier had telephoned and warned them we were a party of almost 40 and precisely the time we would arrive. When we arrived there was one young lady on her own and she was dealing with an Asian family who were checking in, they wanted to pay cash and they don't accept it? Our courier asked if there was anyone else available, the answer was no. The next group were some Chinese who also wanted to pay cash they got the same result but became more agitated when their money was refused. At one point one of the group produced two brown envelopes and opened them, they both contained a thick wedge of new green 100 euro notes. I'd estimate there was 10,000 euros for sure and probably more. He kept offering the receptionist more money to accept his booking with a cash payment. All this pantomime had taken 20 minutes while our group were lined up at the desk and outside some were stood in the rain. Our courier interrupted and demanded to see the manager was told they were not available but a few seconds later the receptionist turned to the office door sited behind the reception and was clearly talking to someone. Meanwhile the receptionist had given us some room keys but they weren't ours. Then the woman hiding in the office appeared, she claimed to be the manager. A lot of talking and rummaging around by both eventually produced some room keys which were dumped on the desk and we were left to rummage through them and find our own keys. I was lucky I spotted my name almost straight away, The Chines guy was shouting and his offer for the room had gone up to 2000euros!! (I was tempted to pay it for him for 2000 euros with my card!). Makes you wonder about the clientele at this particular hotel doesn't it? There's nothing nearby and it was late so you are forced to eat in the hotel. In fairness the two young waiters who served us are the only ones in the hotel who know what they are doing, the meal went better than I'd expected after the earlier experience and the food was fine. We had an early start the following morning so an early breakfast had been arranged. You guessed it, it wasn't ready, I had some bread and jam and two glasses of orange juice for my breakfast only. The coffee machine wasn't working properly, the two (different) waiters were worse than useless, they did manage to produce food as we were having to leave. You can't take it out on the young staff, it's not their fault the place is completely mismanaged. Well if anyone is daft enough to consider staying at this hotel please find somewhere else for your own sanity. 
