Mercure Paris Gare De Lyon TGV

Location is fantastic, just next door to a major train station.

- WiFi is COMPLETELY unacceptable in 2019. They use some idiotic homegrown system to "control" who gets access, and consequence of this is that you are CONSTANTLY being knocked off the network and have to reconnect. Do you like the idea of having to reconnect to WiFi EVERY time you open your iPad? Well, that's what this hotel (and, as far as I can tell, every Accor property on Earth) has in store for you... Whatever they are doing is adequate for phone (didn't have to reconnect often), OK for laptops (maybe once a day), and utterly unusable for tablets. - Breakfast was not bad, but they charge for it --- and are extremely careful not to warn you about this until you leave, which I thought was unacceptably deceptive. - Others may like the beds. I though the mattresses and pillows (both memory foam) were quite a bit harder than I like (and I like a firm mattress+pillow). - The front desk will try to upsell you to a "premium" room for an extra 20 euro/day. Don't be fooled, it's a waste of money. ALL you get is a coffee press machine and a robe in the room. Nothing else is better, the room is not even slightly larger, nor even slightly differently laid out. - Bathroom is designed by a clueless moron. Every surface shows water very visibly, and the shower half door (!) is completely inadequate to preventing water leakage. No matter how careful you are, after one round of just brushing your teeth and showering, the room will look like the plumbing exploded and every faucet sprayed everywhere. Basically it's great in terms of location, but so many other things could have been so much better at the cost of a small amount of effort and care. I understand that a hotel at this type of location and price-point can't provide a large room, or various facilities; and we all accept that. But functional WiFi does not cost money; a softer pillow does not cost money; a full shower door is probably cheaper than a fancy looking half door...