Originally Posted by submonte

Some here already clarified that this is not the case.

Seems I absolutely want to defend the hotel in this respect. Nor the location is especially frequented by homeless people, neither I have noticed any "shady activities". It is, as I said earlier, a typical central Parisian place, like many others, and like in many other cities elsewhere. It is not Place Vendome, but it is not dangerous around the hotel.