Clean hotel rooms, metro is close by with connections on central lines (4, 9, Strausberg-St Denis station), Paris-sized rooms. Based on previous visits, for the price, I felt it could have been better, location-wise and room/amenities-wise. Perhaps Paris is just getting more expensive. Despite proximity to busy street, we could not hear street noise or traffic, but there is definitely transfer of noise between floors and between rooms. Nespresso machine and tea bags, with 1 bottle of water in room just for the first night. Be aware that location is very close to an interesting neighborhood area. Getting off the Chateau de L'eau station in the evening, the neighborhood was alive with action - predominantly African hair salons and shops busy with customers, impromptu sidewalk vendors selling shoes and various wares, loud exclamations, music, and native African languages being spoken everywhere. We did not feel unsafe walking to the hotel, just a bit out of place. It is also apparently one of the last street-walker areas in Paris, but I personally did not see any. Walking a few blocks fro the hotel in any direction brings you into classically "Parisian" architecture and shops.