Paris - le Citizen's hotel breakfast

Le citizen's hotel's breakfast:

So every morning in Paris, we went to this "lounge" for breakfast buffet.  

Fresh pastries, bread, toasts, cereal, fruits and parfaits

The hotel's receptionist always approached us to help us with drinks.  She usually offered to make fresh orange juice and expresso beverages :)  Very helpful staff.  We saw some other guests who had eggs, so we also asked for scramble eggs.  Eggs were the only hot dish they offered for the breakfast.

Expresso Machine that made great expresso, mocha, cappuccino and cafe latte...:)

Quite a comfortable cafe area to chill in the morning ..designed with simple furnitures

This was the last day for our stay in Paris.  The helpful receptionist helped us to find another couple to split our private car cost to the airport.  So instead of paying 60 Euros, we only had to pay 30 euros.  The ride to airport was approximately 45 minutes with rush hour traffic.

Paris - Hotel selection

Paris:

We did a lot of research on the hotels in Paris.  The ones that are close to the Eiffel Tower are very expensive and vintage (aka: old).  There are a lot of negative reviews on many hotels from trip advisor.ca, people complained about huge spiders, bed bugs and dirty rooms, etc.  After careful considerations, we picked Le citizen hotel.  

Le Citizen hotel:
 - near the Canal St. Martin (very quiet and peaceful, yet it was very hard for taxi drivers to find)
 - one of the top ranking hotels from Tripadvisor
 - super clean from traveller's photos (I love looking at traveller's photos as the hotel's photos are usually deceiving

          

 - breakfast and minibar are included: freshly made scramble eggs, freshly made special coffee drink..yummy pastry..etc etc
 - the staff were the nicest and most helpful people I had met in Paris
 - excellent services - Excellent website to provide all the info you need
                             - I booked their private car to pick us up from train station.  only 15 Euro
                             - They answered their emails promptly 
                             - 10 minutes walk to the metro
                             - Window faces the Canal St. Martin
                             - Offered iPad at no cost for us to use in every room
                             - They sold their own (Le citizen) stamps! So I could mail out the postcards!
                             - There's always a person at the front desk to open door for you even you go back to the hotel late.   None of them would frown at you when you get back to the hotel late (apparently some other hotels' staff do)
- On our last day, we booked a private car & driver to airport, the front desk kindly found another couple that would split the taxi bill with us.....60 Euro -> 30 Euro!  Awesome
- Staff spoke perfect English (sounded like American English to me)
- Comfortable bed.....
- We love this hotel....but Price was a little $$.  Compared to other hotels, the price was quite reasonable for the quality :) Very satisfied.

Canal St. Martin

Our window view