Le Pré Saint Germain

Pros +

• Dated rooms but good food and excellent staff. Very noisy road if you have a room at the back of the hotel plus you get woken up by the cigarette smoke from the staff before breakfast. Overall OK but expensive for what it is compared to others.
• Just an average hotel. Kind personnel and large outdoor spaces. The room and the bathroom were ok. I appreciated the small refrigerator in the room, the hotel restaurant and the comfortable car parking.
• This 'grand' and peaceful hotel was a comfortable and safe stop off for us on a long journey from the south of France to the north of the UK. The hotel was situated in lovely grounds with plentiful secure parking visible from our room. The room itself was as described and met our needs well. Among other factors ,we selected this hotel for the option of an evening meal on site and chose the well priced menu du jour - 3 courses for E26 - good value and reasonable quality. Wifi was strong and reliable. Plenty of hot water in the over-the-bath shower. Blankets in addition to the duvet which was just as well as it was too hot and thick so we had to ditch it. The staff were plentiful and all really friendly, nice and efficient - some doubling up and equally adept as reception/waiting staff for example. Thanks to them.

Cons -

• Feels like a bit of an old hotel. Breakfast was poor and never refilled (no croissants left for everyone). Not many facilities. Not really a value for money hotel.
• The layout in our bathroom was really awkward. A small, half height partition wall had been senselessly constructed to presumably honour the French tradition of a separate wc. Instead it made the loo space cramped and uncomfortable and created a needless obstacle which was particularly annoying during the night in the dark when trying not to disturb partner by putting on lights. Although we did not have breakfast (which would have added a further E26 to our bill) we felt that the hotel was overpriced and not great value for money. We travel a lot and often in France - we would have pegged this overnight stay (room only) at around 20/25E less than we paid.