Reading the mostly positive reviews for the Rex leaves me quite perplexed. There must be a second Rex Hotel in Nice and I ended up staying at the wrong one.

Positives
- Location. Yes it was ideal. Just around the corner from Place Massena. Right on Rue Massena which is a gigantic pedestrian walkway filled with shops and restaurants. Also an 8 minute walk to the beach.
- Price.

Negatives
- No actual Rex Hotel building at street level. Just a door. Through it you go and up a flight of stairs to a courtyard. When I say courtyard I’m being nice. What you’re looking at are the backsides of various apartment buildings with laundry draped all over the railings and tiny decks filled with bikes, BBQs and boxes. You walk across this bridge to the Rex’s facade, through two flights of stairs, to a door that leads to the Rex front desk. (It’s in the narrow hall way right across from room #1. It is manned from 8 to 8 only.) The day we arrived, the door was locked with a note stating to call this number and I'll be right over. Not an easy task when you don't have a cell phone, and all the pay phones dont work with Canadian credit cards. Your hotel room overlooks the lovely courtyard?? mentioned earlier.

- Rooms are postage stamp size. Even though we were there for 3 days (mistake) could not unpack the suitcase, because there is really no room to put things. Had to keep it upright and along the wall in order to walk around the bed.

- Bathroom has a sliding louvered door. Once that door is shut, there is not enough room to undress to take a shower. No where to hang your clothes. Cant put them on the W/C because there is no lid, can’t put them on the vanity because it just a sink. You need to get undressed in the bedroom before going into the bathroom to shower. Oh yes, since many of the courtyard windows overlook your room, you have to shut your windows in order not to be seen. Shutting your windows for any length of time, immediately raises the room room temperature by 10 degrees because there is no air conditioning. But they do give you a fan, which needs to run 24/7 to at least maintain the stifling temperature in your room.

- We tried to stay really busy all day sightseeing, trying to delay returning to our room until as late as possible because it wasn’t a happy place to be.

- I could go on and on but I wont. Normally, when on holidays, you are hoping that the days drag on in order to make it last longer. Not with this leg of our trip. We were constantly hoping it would end in order to move on to our next destination.

Not sure how they were given 1 Star, but to me, this place is just one step up from a youth hostel or the seediest hotel in the most run down part of you own home town.

Stay away.