My wife and I stayed one night in the Mercure Nancy Centre Place Stanislas on our way to Switzerland.
But let’s start with the good features. Its position close to the city centre makes it ideal for a city stopover. It’s just a short walk to Place Stanislas and all the restaurants and sights. The other great facility is the car parking: it has its own underground park right opposite the hotel side entrance. The rest was pretty poor. The feature that appalled my wife was that the toilet was in a room so small that it was impossible – and I do mean literally impossible – to sit on it and close the door! The hotel management must know this and yet they go on letting this room. That complacency is unforgivable.
Checkin was curious. It involved a long process conducted by a cheerful but apparently quite untrained person perched on the end of a table with a laptop. How come? The Mercure have a professional reservation system so what was this chap using? He also had a queue of annoyed people waiting to check in behind me. Eventually he walked me across to the lift and configured my room key using a gadget on the wall at the foot of the stairs. Crazy!
The breakfast restaurant is too small for the capacity of the hotel. The choice was fine but It soon filled up and although two people were busy replenishing the servery, no one was on hand to supervise the situation.
It seems there’s something very odd going on at this Mercure. We cancelled our return stopover
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