Les Piaules was a warm welcoming place with a cute work study common area and a super friendly host. No signs outside tell you that the "bar" and hostle are the same but walked in and had no issues. Two complaints: while the rooms were nice and come with a locker for your stuff (below bed, byo lock) I was moved into an all guys room which was not my favorite thing. The guys were fine and fairly antisocial but it felt weird. Second was the noise. I was on the second floor and the road construction noise was so bad I didn't get to sleep, even with ear plugs in, until after they stopped at midnight. A heads up from the place would have been nice, or moving rooms further from the building's street side for that week. Overall a fine experience and easy to get to from the metro.