Do hotel rooms in France typically have coffee machines? We're staying in an "apartment" style room that has a kitchenette. I see an "electric kettle" listed in the room amenities, but no coffee machine.
You have to ask. Hotel rooms generally don't. AN apartment style room with kitchenette probably won't but will over instant coffee. We are in an apartment hotel in Germany and had to go buy a drip cone. When they provide a kettle they usually don't also provide a coffee pot. You need to ask and if not consider bringing a lightweight plastic drip cone and filters unless you are willing to drink instant.
My sister must have her coffee 1st thing every morning. When she travels she brings a drip cone of silicone, I think, that packs flat & a few filters so she can have coffee anywhere they have a kettle. She probably got hers at REI, but I am sure they are available elsewhere, too.
Good idea -- we could only find a heavy ceramic one in Berlin (I am sure a more convenient one exists but we didn't find it). Now we have to lug it back, because I am sure not providing it free to a place that sells you an apartment without a coffee pot and expects you to drink instant. I'll look for a silicone one for my next trip. Place we usually stay in France have presses, but you can't always count on them in apart hotels. and definitely not in hotel rooms as is typical in the US.
FWIW. I buy stuff for apartments i rent all the time and don't begrudge it when they are well equipped. If I rent a place that has been stripped of all foodstuff even the salt and pepper and oil and vinegar and that provides 2 dish washer tabs, then I am not going to leave supplies, or drip cones, or a new knife, or a box of dishwasher tabs. I'd throw them out before I supply them to someone who supplies an ungracious apartment. Most apartments are nicely kitted out and modestly supplied and I am happy to leave the extra coffee mug, knife, or spices etc. I feel pretty salty about renting a place for a week that doesn't provide a coffee maker; they aren't getting my expensive ceramic cone.
Thanks. We have a cone & filters that we will bring (or use a press if there's one)
I use the Starbucks instant coffee that comes in individual servings (Purchased from Costco) when we go camping (also in my BugOut bag) or if if I don't know the coffee situation but know I can get a cup of hot water, they are very good.
I also use the Starbucks sachets when ai need a coffee on a pinch, but often in a bottle with sugar for iced coffee...as some places don't even have a kettle. As a bird watcher, we may be out at 5 a.m. I need my morning dose so whether cold in a fridge or room temp, the sachets dissolve and I can drink it and be on my way in minutes.
I am also trying to come up with a less wasteful way to make coffee in a longer let apartment. As more use those single pod coffee makers, I need to plan on a cone and filter to pack. I find the pods non environmental and no guarantee anyone actually recycles them. That just seems a panacea. Not all machines accept refillable K cups
We bought a light weight, collapsible cone filter and pack a few paper filters to take with us to hotels and apartments/homes where we stay. You can usually count on some method to heat water. We prefer to buy local ground coffee once we get there if we need to use the silicone cone.
This type but not necessarily this brand. https://www.amazon.com/zhuohai-Collapsible-Silicone-Reusable-Backpacking/dp/B098T7PX6B/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2807T4NSXOJRK&keywords=Silicone+coffee+cone&qid=1684536289&sprefix=silicone+coffee+cone%2Caps%2C149&sr=8-3
I've been using these Japanese filters ever since I visited Japan years ago:
I have a 220 hot pot from when I lived in Europe. I store a pour over cup, filters and coffee in the hot pot. I make coffee in my Yeti cup every morning. I started doing this 20 years ago after we stayed in a German guest house. When my husband went to get coffee before breakfast, offering to pay for it, and was told, "it is not possible." I have a 24-inch suitcase and consider this equipment a necessity because I wake up at 5 and do not want to wait until 7 for my first cup. In the US, I use whatever equipment is in the room to make a pour over with my own coffee because what the hotel supplies is usually ghastly. This might seem high maintenance, but I am very cheerful every morning.
I have had good luck asking if it is possible to get a coffee machine like a Nespresso. They are increasingly available. Send a note to the host and ask what they provide or what is possible.
Booking.com includes the phrase “coffee machine” when there is something more automatic than a coffee maker, i.e. brewer.
When I was hunting for filter paper for our ceramic cone at the local Berlin grocery I noticed they had fillable filter bags like used for tea, for coffee. I might have tried that I I had no already bought the very heavy ceramic cone.
I bought a plastic melita type cone last year at a marche when I couldn't figure out how to get the fancy drip electric coffee pot in the apartment to work. The filters that had been provided were the same size so I was able to use those. I left it in the apartment since I have one at home.
Morning coffee is important!
Frank II, I noticed similar on my Canadian Amazon...but made in Canada. I have them plagged for my next order. Good to know they work.
The two hotels I’ve stayed at in France on this trip have had coffee makers. The one in Colmar even had a kettle for boiling water for tea.