Hotel Maison Forge - Ex Hotel ASTORIA- Saint Etienne-Centre des Congrès-

Accueil très sympathique. Disponibilité, réactivité. Mise à disposition de borne de recharge.

Beautiful hotel with spacious room and lovely bathroom

If on foot the distance to the train station , the taxi cost 20 euro ! There is a bus station close by but we didn’t use it as it was only an overnight stay

Accueil remarquable et l’impression d’être l’invité de l’établissement. Grande chambre confortable. Petit déjeuner exceptionnel de fraîcheur et de diversité. Bravo

Rien

Good: clean, very quiet after the restaurant closes (if you are above it as we were), good restaurant for dinner, adequate free parking, the breakfast was good enough, and the location is in a secure residential neighborhood. Good internet, but a clumsy login process that only allowed one device per registered email address, and after a while, when logging in, it said another device was already logged in, which wasn’t true.

Not good: incredibly smelly scented plug-ins everywhere throughout the hotel. In the hallways, in the restaurant. The only reason there wasn’t one in our room was because I sent them a message requesting that these (and other) offensive smelly things are not to be used. The use of terrible smelly laundry detergents, dryer sheets, and scented plug-ins seem to be endemic in France on this trip. There is a massively large TV in each of the dining rooms, tuned to world news - so you can only image the images. At dinner we had to ask them to turn it off while we ate, as it totally dominated the dining experience. The TV’s were on with the news - and sound - also at breakfast. Why TV in a nice restaurant? And does anyone really need more news? Can’t we be allowed to eat in peace and simply be with our dining companion.