2/5 David N. 1 year ago on Google • 62 reviews
This
is
a
beautiful
old
building,
carefully
decorated,
a
couple
of
minutes'
walk
from
the
old
town.
If
you
are
not
au
fait
with
the
phrase
"hotel
particulier",
it's
important
to
realise
that
what
is
on
offer
is
a
range
of
bedrooms
in
someone's
private
house,
so
more
guest
house
than
hotel.
We
had
arrived
earlier
than
expected
and
so
offered
to
drop
our
bags
and
come
back
at
the
checkin
time
of
3pm
but
were
assured
that
an
early
arrival
was
no
problem,
were
welcomed
in
by
the
owners,
had
our
bags
taken
up
and
were
shown
around.
It
would
be
prudent
to
look
carefully
at
the
listings
here
and
on
other
web
sites,
or
you
might
believe
there
is
a
spa,
pool,
bar
and
restaurant
on
site,
but
in
fact
these
are
recommendations
for
those
in
the
area
you
might
wish
to
go
to.
We
knew
this
before
we
booked
but
I
can
understand
why
some
reviewers
may
have
felt
misled,
as
the
photos
and
descriptions
are
not
very
clear
on
which
things
are
onsite
and
which
are
not.
It
was
also
not
very
clear
to
what
extent
the
lounges
and
gardens
were
for
guests'
use
-
they
certainly
felt
a
lot
more
like
the
family's
private
space
than
one
in
which
guests
were
welcome.
We
booked
the
Double
Room,
the
smallest
of
the
rooms,
but
which
was
still
a
good
size.
It
is
important
to
note
if
booking
via
the
booking
dot
com
web
site
that
many
features
and
amenities
listed
as
being
provided
in
the
room
are
simply
not
there.
The
only
thing
we
really
missed
was
a
kettle
and
the
ability
to
make
the
first
coffee
of
the
day,
and
so
the
owners
did
put
one
in
the
room
for
us.
They
said
they
had
changed
some
of
the
facilities
in
the
rooms,
so
it
would
be
a
really
good
idea
for
them
to
update
their
listings
on
web
sites.
(They
were
amenable
to
requests
generally
-
one
evening,
they
also
kindly
agreed
to
chill
a
bottle
of
wine
for
us
in
their
own
fridge,
so
that
we
could
drink
it
on
the
small
public
balcony.)
The
room
is
nicely
decorated
on
the
whole,
though
the
area
behind
the
bed
seemed
oddly
to
have
been
left
unfinished
with
dangling
wires
coming
out
of
messy
holes
in
the
wall.
The
bathroom
was
huge
and
is
really
smart
(with
the
exception
of
the
toilet
which
looked
like
it
was
the
last
one
left
in
Bricomarché.)
The
Grohe
shower
looked
great
but
unfortunately
the
main
shower
was
so
high
up
on
the
ceiling
that
it
did
lose
most
of
its
pressure
and
temperature
-
but
the
hand-held
shower
was
fine.
Unfortunately,
the
bed
was
extremely
soft
and
squishy
and
we
found
it
difficult
to
get
a
good
night's
sleep.
The
mattress
-
the
single
most
important
item
in
a
hotel
room
-
had
clearly
seen
better
days
and
was
long
overdue
for
replacement.
On
the
day
we
left,
I
was
checking
under
the
bed
to
make
sure
I
had
not
left
anything
behind
and
saw
that
in
fact
the
entire
bottom
of
the
bed
itself
had
collapsed
and
the
mattress
was
being
held
up
in
the
middle
with
a
narrow
strip
of
chipboard.
Given
the
relatively
high
nightly
cost
of
the
room
and
the
great
emphasis
on
luxury
and
comfort
in
the
advertising,
I
think
it
is
not
unreasonable
to
expect
better
than
this.
Although
nice
to
look
at
at
first
glance,
unfortunately
this
place
does
not
really
live
up
to
its
promises.
During
our
trip
to
France,
we
stayed
at
four
different
accommodations
at
a
range
of
different
prices.
Le
28
was
the
most
expensive
by
quite
some
margin,
but
was
easily
the
least
satisfactory
in
terms
of
facilities,
comfort
and
value.
One
further
thing
which
clouded
our
experience:
an
hour
after
we
checked
in,
the
hotel
received
a
handful
of
new
5*
Google
reviews
-
posted
by
the
personal
and
business
accounts
of
the
owners
themselves!
Posting
fake
ratings
of
your
business
is
probably
quite
common,
but
doing
it
under
your
own
name
seems
bizarre
and
raises
questions
about
some
of
the
other
good
reviews.
This
led
me
to
read
some
of
the
reviews
on
the
Booking
web
site.
A
number
of
reviewers
had
made
similar
criticisms
to
those
above
-
many
of
these
reviews
have
been
responded
to
with
an
astonishing
level
of
denial
and
personal
abuse.
Reading
these
was
why
we
did
not
raise
any
of
these
issues
while
we
were
there.
Peculiar
indeed.
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