Where to start? Dirty carpet, peeling paint, holes in the wall, mold in the bathroom, threadbare carpet on the stairs - I could go on and on, but you get the picture... Don't be fooled by their website. You would think this is a beautiful hotel in the heart of the opera district. You would be right about the location... More

This hotel is one of the small enterprises for budget visitors. It is small and they even not have the usual entrance space. I spend there one night only being caught by problems with another hotel. I was nicely placed in the clean room with full functioning equipment. It was what I was there for.

Do not stay at this hotel! This is the type of hotel where I did not want to take off my shoes. I couldn't tell whether the carpet was gray or brown. Other than location, this hotel should be avoided even at 90 euros a night. The room is dark and dingy,despite facing the front of the hotel with French... More

Located close to L'Opera, Hotel Helder provided a convenient stay for a business overnight stopover in Paris. 5-stars it is not but somehow they shoehorned 22 rooms into 6 floors into this little side street hotel. We stayed on the 6th floor which is in the roof, served by a lift. The room configuration was unusual, being constrained by the... More

The hotel has No Lobby at all and no place for 4 persons to stand together to talk. The rooms are NOTHING LIKE THE WEBSITE. They are not clean and are very old. The bathrooms are not like the ones in the photos on the website, they are extremely small, not that clean and some of them had the toilet... More

STAY AWAY from this dirty hotel, it's full of MOUSE, unhealthy/unsanitary. During my one week stay in this hotel, I've seen many times lots of mouse everywhere in the hotel: rooms, bathroom, corridors. Also, I've seen lots of tourists who had left the hotel quickly after one day stay, as, they've seen MOUSES in their room. The hotel is very... More