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Very Good Value and EXCELLENT CANCELLATION POLICY
WARNING: This review contains more than 256 characters! If you can read more than 256 characters without fainting like my younger students from FIU, then keep reading and chances are that you will learn quite a few things. This B&B ROISSY CDG hotel is about 20 minutes from ROISSY POLE by public transportation (bus 27 from platform D2 and bus 93 from platform E2), which is between Terminals 1, 2 and 3. To go back to the airport from Roissy Pôle the next day, you must take a free rail shuttle to go to Terminals 1 and 2. As for T3, you just go walking. Add a good 10 minutes from Roissy Pôle to T1 or T2, which is a long walk from the shuttle. You are already a good 30 minutes from your terminal, which is better than more than an hour that it took me last year from Paris Porte d'Ivry to CDG Roissy Pôle. Busses 27 and 93 run about every 30 minutes and it will take about 20 minutes to go to the hotel once you are in the bus. GET OFF at BUS STOP "VERGER". To go back to the airport, you just do the same thing in the opposite direction. Fare is 2.50 € (a/o April 2025...) and you can pay on the bus. Unlike bus drivers in Miami, here you can get your change back BUT ONLY SMALL AMOUNTS, like a 5 € bill. So don't expect to change a 50 € note in the bus! Of course, if you travel by limousine you don't need all this information about public transportation... But if you travel by limousine chances are that you won't be reading this review because you will be staying at the Hilton or the Sheraton, much closer from the airport, rather than this BUDGET HOTEL, good for a retired Professor like me who is just a couple of steps above the homeless guy! For professorship is not a profession but a priesthood. Like priests, professors work for room and board... In addition to those public busses, there is a shuttle from the hotel to the airport, but I took the public bus the next morning, since I had a weekly pass. For this hotel is in the middle of nowhere, surrounded only by other hotels. From "First Class" (that's their euphemistic name!) all the way up to Best Western and Novotel, they are all there! BUT nothing else. NOT a bar, NOT a shopping center, NOT even a gas station with a food point. There is a food Machine in the lobby of this B&B, for those who enjoy dealing with Machines, which is not my case. But if you have a transportation weekly pass (a must if you stay more than 3 days in Paris!) you can just leave your luggage and go back to Roissy Pôle, where there is a small Monoprix open daily (including Sunday) until 8:30 pm, with food, from cold and hot drinks and sandwiches to a salad bar. If you have a transportation pass, remember that you MUST VALIDATE IT EVERY TIME you take a bus, tram or subway. UNLIKE VIENNA (in Austria, not in the US!), where you enter the bus, tram or subway without validating your pass, in Paris you must validate it each time or you will get a fine. If you take 10 busses the same day, you must validate 10 times! As for the hotel itself, it is a modern construction and you enter your room with a combination, so make sure you don't lose it! Rooms are very small by US standards but quite big by European standards, especially in London, where you pay the price of the Miami Beach Hilton to sleep in what they call "single rooms", which are half way between a traditional English telephone booth and my smallest closet in Miami Beach! Since the 1970s I’ve slept in quite a good number of those closets! Of course, there is a small bathroom with a shower, a sink and a flushing toilet, the greatest invention of mankind. BUT THE MAIN THING about this B&B chain is their OUTSTANDING, HONEST, CANCELLATION POLICY: DAY OF ARRIVAL BY 7 PM. In an age where more and more hotels are adopting an outrageous cancellation policy of one (and even two days before arrival, like a Best Western Plus in Vienna, Austria!!!) such as the group ACCOR HOTELS (Ibis, Mercure, Novotel), where I was a loyal customer for more than a dozen years, with the GOLD status several years in a row, it is refreshing to see a hotel group offering such an honest cancellation policy of DOA by 7 pm! UNLIKE ACCOR HOTELS, who impose that outrageous cancellation policy of ONE DAY BEFORE ARRIVAL to all their hotels, from Ibis Budget all the way up to Mercure and Novotel, all over the world, from Vienna to Buenos Aires (I know it because I always check before each trip to see if they went back to their previous honest policy, but their new policy is still there, so they haven't seen me since 2023!), BEST WESTERN AND CHOICE HOTELS leave the choice to their members. So I only go to their locations offering an HONEST DAY OF ARRIVAL BY 6 or 7 PM CANCELLATION POLICY. BUT this B&B group offers the same excellent policy in all their French locations.