Trafalgar Hotel: Hilton La Defense (Paris)

Misterpiggy stayed at the Hilton La Defense while in Paris.  The La Defense is a business district with lots of office buildings and home to the Grande Arche and the Quatre Temps giant shopping mall.  The hotel looks like an aircraft hangar from the outside and piggy read somewhere that it used to be an exhibition/convention centre? Anyways, now there are offices, shops, eateries and the hotel inside.  

The outside.

from the shops looking up at the hotel.

and inside views, these are the views from the room looking out.

There is a main shopping concourse at street level and two more shopping levels below that. Also convenient access to the Metro "1" line.

The rooms are spacious and modern.  With 3 phones even. one between the beds.

a phone on the desk and even one in the bathroom.  mini fridge and safe too.

giant sized bathroom.

All the usual toiletries. shampoo not necessary for misterpiggy and muki as neither one has any hair.

Muki doesn't need any Qtips either.

Misterpiggy found the room to be very comfortable.  No noise leakage from adjacent rooms.  It would have scored ten out of ten if there was free wi-fi.

Misterpiggy enjoyed his breakfasts on in the hotel restaurant located on the main level. The croissants and fresh juices were the best!

Misterpiggy's rating:

Size: 1
Comfort and storage: 1
Bathroom: 1
Roomsafe: 1
Breakfast: 1
Convenience and access: 1
Cleanliness: 1
View: 1
Quiet: 1
Free Internet/Wifi: 0

Score: 9 out of 10.  Misterpiggy would definitely stay here again (assuming cost was no object).

Day 10: Last day in Paris

It was a particularly blustery and windy day as Misterpiggy went on the Paris city tour. Somehow misterpiggy lucked out because here he was at the front of the bus again. The tour group was joined by Katherine?, a local guide, as Marc drove down the Ave Charles De Gaulle, and then via beautiful tree lined streets near Les Invalides towards the Eiffel Tower.

Misterpiggy thinks that this building is called L'Hotel des Invalides.

And this is the Ecole Militarie.

Le pont des Invalides et le grand palais?

Marc pulled the tour bus into Champs de Mars and everyone got off the bus for the group photo and views of the Eiffel tower.

Marie had to make a mad dash from the group photo spot to the Eiffel Tower in time to buy the group tickets.  By the time the group reboarded the bus and Marc dropped everybody off at the base of the tower, Marie had the tickets and was there in line saving a place for the entire group!   And what a busy day it was.  Only one elevator was working so the line-ups were long.

Here are some pics of the Eiffel tower as misterpiggy waited to go up.

And here are the views from the second level observation deck, where it was really cold and gusty.

Unfortunately it was too windy for misterpiggy to take a picture outside lest he be blown off the railing.  For the afternoon, many of the group members took the optional tour to Versailles and Marc was driving them there, so misterpiggy made his own way back to La Defense via the Metro.

It was nice that afternoon to finally have some leisure time to see some of the stores in the Quatre Temps mall across from the hotel.  Best of all there was free wifi throughout the mall so misterpiggy could publish his exciting adventures in lovely  France!

Later that evening, everybody said their goodbyes at the farewell dinner at a restaurant on the Champs Elysees.  A final thank you to Trafalgar tour director Marie Dubois, who took care of misterpiggy and everyone so well and made for a wonderful vacation experience.