It’s a little more than a “pod hotel.” If you don’t know that term: sink in the room, toilet and shower in a glass cube in the middle of the (tiny) room. If the toilet/shower door is open, you can’t exit the room. The mattress is uncomfortable and up on a platform. The whole setup resembles an economy-class cabin on a boat. If you fancy paying luxury hotel rates for a cabin, go for it. If you ignore my advice and stay here anyway, I suggest skipping the breakfast. The breakfast room is absurdly over-decorated with postmodern tchotchkes, perhaps in an effort to distract you from the selection of food on offer, which is very meager and underwhelming. I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the bizarre check-in experience. You are expected to check yourself in, using an automated kiosk very similar to those found in airline terminals. You must answer a bunch of questions, and scan your passport, and so forth. Not only that, but by default you’re signing up for unlimited spam from the hotel chain, and it’s quite difficult to figure out how to avoid it. It took me ten minutes of harsh discussion with the staff member who supervises the robots to get checked in. The staff tried hard to convince me that this is a luxury hotel, but I’m not buying it. I advised them to visit Hotel l’Echiquier Opéra, an actual luxury hotel with a top notch-breakfast. The staff are friendly but overworked, because there are too few of them and they’re expected to double as baristas. It’s a chain. Skip it.