An Epic Trip

Recently, my parents and I made a very short tour to United Kingdom. Our trip was 9 days including the days when we were on train and on flights transferring here and there.

I will blog about our trip and hopefully you will find it useful for yours. This time around I just want to talk about the hotels we stayed in London and Paris.

London

In London, we stayed at Hotel Athena. It was a B&B (bed and breakfast) place. The room given to us was a quadruple room in which there was one double bed and two single beds. The room is very small yet it could fit all three beds and three big luggage. Of course we have to move carefully so that we don't bump into each other. 

In the room, they provided hot water kettle, cups, coffee and sugar. Also, they gave us three different password and it expires at the end of each day. The connection is very good.

It is a short distance from Paddington Tube station (in London, people call their underground station as Tube). It consists of many line and each is colour coded. It is reliable and very fast. The only thing is we were afraid we might get lost, hence we only used it once when my uncle and aunty brought us to have a look at Primark.

This is the basement of the hotel where we had our breakfast every morning. It is just open for breakfast and not any other time. 

This is the only picture I took of our room. This is the view of the window from my bed (single bed). Beside the window on the left, there is a reading light. I only used it for one night and on the other night I was too tired to read. There was plenty of power points to charge your phone, power bank, portable wi-fi and whatever you want to charge.

This is where we took our breakfast (basement) at Athena Hotel in London.

Paris

Next, is the hotel in Paris. It is Villa Alessandra  in 9, Place Boulnois, 75017 Paris. They can be reached at alessandra@leshotelsdeparis.com or +33(0) 156332424.

The hotel is situated at the far end of this road. We stayed at Level 1 and they have a small but reliable lift to carry people up and down. Again, the dining hall is at the basement. It is very small but enough to for all its occupant. The dining is only open for breakfast from 7-10am. 

There, we met a boy from Belfast who was working in an IT company. He is staying there for three months to work and then will be transferred back to Belfast. We saw him on both days when we were there but doesn't seem to like chatting much.

This is the view from the room looking outside.

The hotel has equipped each room with a smart phone which we can use as long as we stayed in the hotel. It has good connection. Any French number can be connected to it but it was in Arabic so I relied on my phone most of the time. The above picture shows the phone together with its charger.

There was one general password for wi-fi in the hotel. If any one of us uses the internet, then the rest of has can't get a connection. This is what we found lacking. Also, the taxis found it hard to go to the hotel as it was hidden from the road. I think we felt safe that way. On another note, the hotel was close to Champ Elysees and a walking distance from Arc de Triomphe.

We were satisfied with both the hotels as the food was edible, the rooms was clean and the people were hospitable.

All the bookings was done by my cousin at Far East Travel. You can contact them or you may search online for the hotels.