Was pretty much as grim as expected for €50 a night in Paris, but I can deal with that- I booked a cheap hotel & that’s what I got. What I struggle to deal with however, is why the night manager of the hotel refused to print out my friend’s flight boarding pass, even though he had a functioning PC & printer there waiting to be used, even after I offered to pay.
My friend & I were in Paris for a concert, where her phone was annoyingly pickpocketed. Our flight was at 6am the next morning & her boarding pass was saved on the phone that got stolen, so I was trying to reprint the boarding pass so she wouldn’t have issues at the airport. Granted, my French is almost none existent but this guy knew the basis of what I was saying as he was communicating back in English, & he flat out refused to print this pass out for no apparent reason- eventually getting aggressive & telling me to go down the road and ask somewhere. I simply wanted a reason as to why he wouldn’t do this small favour in what was for us, a rather bad situation.
On a side note- this particular area of Paris felt horrendously unsafe- I’ve travelled all round Central America & other dangerous places & it usually takes a lot to put me on edge. We was planning on a quick drink before getting the Metro to the concert but it felt that bad we ended up jumping straight on a train.
