Originally Posted by jameswes

I concur. The fact that you're literally on top of a subway station makes it very convenient to get around the city as a tourist doing touristy stuff. You are going to want to use the metro (you can walk into the city from there, and we did a couple times), but I absolutely agree that while you're there it's incredibly convenient to get nearly anywhere in the city.

It is more of a pain getting to/from an airport (particularly Orly) than if you were staying centrally. But IMO either you're going to hire a car either way, or you're going to have to deal with a mass transit system. And if you're complaining about mass transit to HR Etoile, then you'll have a hard time with mass transit to any other hotel as well.