My 4-Hour Layover at Saint-Lazare: I Escaped the Crowd for an Art Deco Hideaway. A Logbook.

A traveler's logbook of being stuck for 4 hours at Gare Saint-Lazare. Discover how I fled the chaos for an Art Deco haven at the Hôtel Mercedes, just a 12-minute metro ride away. A story of comfort, a hot shower, and reclaimed sanity.