We have stayed at the Melia Hotel Le Colbert Boutique hotel about 7 and have always liked it. Sadly, as has been reported elsewhere, the hotel is in need of attention. Although they replaced the windows a couple of years ago, the carpeting and other fixtures are in need of major maintenance. The hotel was going to be sold to the Stein Group but that deal must have fallen thru as they are back with the Sol Melia group. Maybe that could explain delays in maintenance and turnover in personnel. The photos that someone else left are accurately portrayed. The front desk was manned by a new individual who was ok but not as friendly as with others in past years. Note that it was only one person this year at the desk and that can be a problem at times. As others have noted, the rooms still have clunky tvs with no english channels and few other channels. They seem to be scimping on amenities as well. The breakfasts, although very nice, are outrageously expensive - even including your roommate eating for free if you are a Sol Melia club member. The biggest criticism, though, is that the air conditioning was not turned on. Too warm and stuffy with with windows closed and too noisy and cold with them open. This was also the case last year and is inexcusable. With the prices that they are tyring to get, they should be doing a better job. Lastly, the "bar" area is still not effectively utilized. In all the years that we have been staying there, we have yet to see anyone having a drink at the bar - despite the advertising sign outside the hotel. The room is more suited to reading than it is for socializing. It would be nice if they had a real bar or tavern. For all of these reasons, I have lowered my rating of the Colbert to just average and it should be more properly rated at three stars. It is, however, in a great location and we will probably return. Amortizor.

The hotel has an excellent location, very central near Notre Dame but in a quiet street. We were able to walk to decent restaurants with ease. The hotel is decorated in Louis X1V style (well, Colbert was his finance minister so that makes sense) which is a bit over the top for me. The rooms were comfortable and quiet with decent bathrooms. We paid for a superior room.Breakfast was expensive, 26 euros but very good, except that the coffee was always stewed. There was a very noisy generator in the only public room [-] bar, I think it was running the fridge. There is a small lift to the bedroom floors, but a rather tricky staircase down to the vaulted cellar room which is the breakfast room. Excellent staff overall

We were hugely disappointed with the shabby appearance, poor maintenance, and general appallingly low quality of the Hotel Colbert. At the price of 300 Euros (U.S. $430 at the current exchange) for what was billed as a “superior” room, especially, it was more than a disappointment: it was really, well, a ripoff. This is the only honest way to put it. Some of the specific things we found unacceptable and frankly distasteful include burned lampshades in the bar, threadbare carpets on the stairs and throughout the hotel. All the guest room and common area furniture was old, worn and the upholstery was often even dirty. The carpet in the breakfast room was absolutely filthy, and was worn down to threads even in the lobby and bar areas. The fabric and padding were entirely torn from the arm of an ornamented sofa in the lobby, and there was a huge tear in the rather dirty fabric. As for conditions in our room, we could not even read our tourist guides at night given the tiny lamps (and dust-covered bulbs) and resulting dim lighting. The wallpaper in our guest room was gouged in places and speckled with what looked like plaster patching stains. Our "queen" bed was really just two beds pushed together, but without the "joiner," and there were literally two sets of linen so that my wife and I couldn't actually share the bed. Not exactly a romantic arrangement for a Paris holiday. The tiny, 19-inch TV’s very presence was absurd for Anglos, as the hotel does not subscribe to any English-language programming, which I found incredible in a Paris hotel generally, and especially one patronized by lots of English and American visitors. It also contrasted notably with a friend’s two-star hotel that included a flat-screen TV and BBC with CNN International programming. The bathroom looked nice, as other reviewers have noted, but was a disaster to use and the tub (with no shower curtain and hence a flooded room every morning and evening) was two feet off the floor, making it difficult and even unsafe to enter or exit. This hotel has a good location on the Left Bank, in the shadow of the Cathedral of Notre Dame. That is about the only positive aspect; except for one gentleman at the front desk, ironically of Spanish descent, the staff was not friendly or helpful. For example, we did not get our wakeup call the first morning, with no apology or explanation. The Colbert has no concierge, so we asked the haughty “gentleman” at the front desk to make two restaurant reservations, arrange a trip to Versailles, and arrange a dinner at one of the famous Paris “revues” Either he did nothing or didn’t leave any note of it, as he was off the next day, requiring us to ask for all the same arrangements over again with the next person on duty. This hotel, remarkably, has a 4-star rating, but probably deserves a 2-star rating at best. It is reminiscent of many 2-star hotels I stayed in to save money when I was a student, 20 years before. It badly needs a major investment in furniture, carpet, wall coverings and general furnishings, and frankly a good cleaning and a management that cares. This one does not. The Hotel Le Colbert has clearly been neglected. In short – it’s a seedy, inaccurately rated, poorly maintained and grossly overpriced establishment.

I liked this hotel. It's in the Latin Quater in Paris, and in my opinion, the best area to stay in the city. The hotel is small. Small bathroom, small bedroom, small everything. But it is comfortable, extremely clean and very charming. The frontdesk attendants were very kind and actually from this planet, which can be difficult to find in Paris. The service was very fast and very good. I had to pay for the internet, bit of a downer. Overall, happy and will return soon.