I think this hotel would do itself a favor if it was branded as a four star hotel and leave fewer people disappointed.
The first room we received was nothing like the rooms advertised in the pictures. Simple, with a blank wall and a tiny window overlooking a small hideous backyard. The bathroom sink was in the middle of the room, giving student dorm vibes. I think the hotel should advertise these kind of rooms separately from the rooms that have a closed bathroom.
Luckily, the friendly frontdesk staff managed to find us a better room with a separate bathroom and I am very grateful for that.
The breakfast was also disappointing for a five star hotel. The first morning we could choose between three kinds of bread: toast, extremely dark bread, bread with berries. The second morning the bread with berries was exchanged for bread with truffles. Sounds fancy but we would have appreciated a more "normal" bread or buns to choose from. The buffet breakfast has fewer variety and lower quality than most four star hotels I have stayed at. The coffee from the machine is almost not drinkable, you can't have barista coffee even if you are willing to pay for it. The a la card breakfast menu has good poached eggs and caprese salad. The waffles are extremely sweet though and come with whole chunks of sugar in the dough. All sweet pastries are either extremely sweet or have no sugar at all..
What makes the breakfast bearable is Johnny, who is super eager, friendly and tries very hard to give you a good experience. The rest of the breakfast staff look super unhappy though and as if they were just thrown out of bed.
Pullmans seem to have a weird towel policy, as its not the first time I experiencd that their rooms come with two large and two small towels only. No separate towel to wash your hands, no face towels. As I prefer to wash my face with a fresh towel, we asked for another towel at the front desk but it never arrived. We ended up taking extra towels from the cleaning staff's trollies whenever we needed them.
I stayed at the hotel to celebrate my birthday. Even though the booking was in my name and they received my passport upon check-in, I did not receive any form of birthday surprise. I know some guests received surprises, and maybe you need to have an Accor status level to do so. But I was still disappointed to not have received even a small card saying happy birthday.
Overall just a very disappointing experience. It is my second stay at a Pullman and the second time I am disappointed, so I will just stay away from Pullmans in the future.
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