I've stayed in some French hotels recently, and found them extraordinarily unwelcoming - the staff were nice, but the whole feeling was monetising customers. There was no fridge or safe in the room; neither was there the kettle, water and couple of tea bags you'll normally find in an Irish bed-and-breakfast. If you want to make a cup of tea or coffee, forget it - they're for sale in some form. Everything was for sale. Everything was to do with money.

I also took a very expensive language course in France. The head of the school announced the rules on the first day. These included the fact that all students who wanted a cup of coffee at break time must buy their own capsules to use in the Nespresso type machines. This for people who had paid hundreds of euro to take the course! It's probably normal in France, but the sheer rage on the faces of non-francophone-inclusive countries at this announcement should have told the management that this was not a good commercial policy!