My first impression was definitely that it was rather odd. No check-in... and then I realized I had to check-in at the bar. All very modern, cement, no closet but just coat-hangers hanging at random on a wire grid on a wall, no real desk, quite a small room, but the more I got used to it, the more I found it OK. I wasn't in the room much anyway. It is well located for both Vigie and Flon metro stations, so for getting to UNIL (University of Lausanne) and to downtown/Ouchy area. There are lots of restaurants in between the hotel and the Flon metro station. The hotel itself has a bar but no restaurant -- you can pay for a breakfast (I didn't), and there are drinks and chips and things like that that you can buy near the front desk. You also get a free Lausanne transit pass with your hotel booking, and that is really wonderful. There was some noise in the evenings -- it's a lively area -- but in 6 nights of staying there, it never went past 12:30.