le lichou

Good location close to the péage, quiet, clean room.

No normal chair/desk

The location, the treatment the personal very nice and kind. Place comfortable and easy to reach!

The bed was a bit hard!!

The bar is great, people very friendly. Very convenient stopover when going south.

Choice of food - must remember to get a French dictionary. My wife loved the dessert.

It was clean. The bathroom was spotless. Evening meal was ok and the gentleman serving was pleasant. Great coffee in the morning.

Looks lovely and typically French from outside, in reality stay is in a tiny room in a different building behind that pictured. No wardrobe in room and no terrace despite stating there is on booking.com. Garden questionable a small grass bit out back, not fenced and no seating. Breakfast expensive for chopped pieces of baguette and jam but coffee was good.

In a quiet town just off the autoroute. The room was very reasonably priced so we didn't have high expectations of luxury, but it was perfectly adequate although quite spartan, and in an annexe just round the corner from the restaurant. Plenty of parking. Excellent, simple and good value menu. Very traditional France. Run by the owner for many years.

Wifi was not strong in the annexe.

Classic small French auberge. Clean comfortable room with excellent shower and beds. Good heat pump. Excellent 4 course dinner with wine 14€. Classic petit dejournee with very fresh bread and excellent coffee.

Car parked in area behind hotel but with public access.

Lovely staff and location. Close to the motorway but in a very peaceful little village.

The beds were small and not too comfortable.

Not enough for the cost. Loved the ruralness if there is a word to use. Lot of locals used the restaurant which was almost full. Dinner was excellent. You could eat as much or as little as you wanted.

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Location, price, staff and cleanliness.Good place for a one night stay.

Rooms are quite small.

Location close to motorway. Evening meal and ambience. Good walks on nearby canal and river.

Room was small but OK for overnight stay

Cheap and cheerful great food

A bit dated but you get what you’ve paid for and more

booked on the day on our drive from England to the south of France, was a convenient stop not far from the motorway but quiet. the set menu is great - €14 for four courses including a glass of wine and a coffee

the bed was a little uncomfortable

The room was clean, shower was nice and it was located in a lovely quiet village. The restaurant was superb, the food was delicious and very reasonably priced. The owner was very pleasant and even made a space in the restaurant for my dog.

The walls were paper-thin, so we could hear everything in the next room - to include them having very loud sex and then later we could hear them snoring! The bed was hard and uncomfortable, the décor was very tired looking, we couldn't use the TV, due to the thin walls and the building that the four rooms were located in was not the pretty picture shown on the website, it was in a concrete square block around the back. This is not somewhere I would want to stay again!

We always stay at Le Lichou on our way to Spain, it is an ideal stopping point. It provides us with everything we need & the menu in the restaurant is excellent value for money. Ideal for an overnight stay en route.

clean and comfortable. ideal location for our needs

Very unfriendly staff. had to argue that i had paid for the room prior. they billed me again i refused to pay.

Would never go back

The place was filthy in pitch black, looked nothing like the pictures on booking.com, was in a room with just a bed? The carpet was full of bits, no where to hang my clothes, really weird building and set up

Very friendly staff. Excellent evening meal at low price. Conveniently near rhe autoroute and easy to find.

Lack of soap. Uncomfortable pillow.

I am reluctant to comment, not because of anything to do with Le Lichou, but because some of my previous comments have been edited by Booking.com in a disagreeable and unnecessary manner. Earlier in this survey, I was asked "Comment s'est passé votre séjour dans l'établissement le lichou ?" Note that this question is NOT about the hotel or its qualities, but about THIS PARTICULAR STAY there. That was somewhat less satisfactory than it might have been, without the hotel being in any way at fault: In the event, it was a bank holiday and the hotel's (excellent) restaurant was closed along with all restaurants, shops, and services in the area. The proprietors were kind enough to offer us a room to which they left us the key, even though they were, in effect, off duty. We have stayed at this hotel before more than once and have always enjoyed it. We will surely be back again. It is a simple, unpretentious, old-fashioned (and very French) roadside hotel that is exactly to our taste, with a friendly, helpful staff, an excellent restaurant, and very basic, but comfortable, rooms that are clean and in which everything (including the free wifi) works: all offered at an unbeatable price. The hotel is excellently located for breaking up our drives between ouest France and Provence. It is very popular with bicyclists in the summer (bicycles are available for rent) and is handy to the spectacular Forêt de Tronçais. If your taste runs, like ours, to simple, basic and traditional, this hotel has much to recommend it.

It was unfortunate for us that the hotel's restaurant was closed (along with everything else in the area) because of the bank holiday, but we we told of that in advance and were glad to be offered a room.

Good value for money. Basic but clean accomodation, recently renovated bathroom. Good value restaurant. Very convenient to motorway. Nice canalside walk nearby.

Few places open nearby for snacks or drinks during the day(one local cafe had an exceptional closure on the days we stayed)

France used to be filled with old-fashioned, roadside hotels this type. They made traveling through France a real pleasure for ordinary people who liked good food, a comfortable bed, maybe a few drinks, and French bonhomie—all at a modest price. Now such places are a rarity. But my wife and I love them, when we can find them. We have stayed twice at Le Lichou—once in the off-season and once just now in the high season in the midst of a horrid heat wave. It was a pleasure both times, but the quieter, cooler off-season was a greater pleasure. We chose this hotel in the first place as an overnight stopping place to break up a long journey. On that criterion, Le Lichou was perfectly located. That might not be what others are searching for, but the place is popular as a stopover for cyclists. We expected Le Lichou to provide very simple, basic accommodation, which it did. But our rooms were recently done up, clean, and with a reasonably good bed; small, private bathroom with a shower and a couple of skimpy towels, but everything in working order (including the internet!). In the heat wave, it made a difference that our room was individually air conditioned. The price of a room at Le Lichou is extremely reasonable—no question about value for money, despite the modesty of the accommodation. But the big surprise for us at Le Lichou was the restaurant. We had no great hopes ahead of time, but it turned out to offer a selection of some of our favorite French classics. (I enjoyed tête de veau on both occasions with ile flottante for dessert; you occasionally find the former at French lunch restaurants, but I hadn't seen the latter in years; my wife enjoyed some similar classics.

There was really nothing that we didn't like, but our expectations were adjusted to our understanding of what a place like this has to offer. Thus, we enjoyed our stay immensely.