Mme_X
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Quick summary: Very good stay in a clean, comfortable room. Excellent on-site restaurant and courtyard patio for breakfast and dinner. Easy walk to town center. Private courtyard parking for nominal charge, but parking available on the street.||My review is based on what I expect of a hotel in this category. We stayed two nights here while on a road trip through the area. We’d be happy to return.||We stayed in room 12, which is listed as superior double room. There was a very comfortable king bed, comfy pillows, good linens. ||There is a nice little adjoining patio with chairs that overlooks the back courtyard area of garden patio and tables with umbrellas for dining and relaxing. Nice for some fresh air in a quiet spot. There is also a spa back there, although we did not use it.||Storage for your clothing was on open shelves and a roomy open closet.||The furnishings are rather modern and spare. There are two slipper-style chairs, ie something to sit on, but not made for relaxing, or to sit at a desk for a while.||The bathroom has a good-sized shower, no tub. Separate little room for the toilet.||HVAC worked well.||Spotless housekeeping.||Free WiFi worked well enough, but not impressive.||Upfront: you will be happy to dine here for breakfasts and other meals. The buffet breakfast was a very nice array of pastries, breads, meats, cheeses, yogurt, juice, cereal, etc. You can reheat hard boiled eggs. Coffee from one of those 8-option coffee/tea machines that you see at many hotels these days.||As we were often tired from a day of visiting beaux villages, we were happy to have a very good restaurant on site at the end of a long day. The menu is large enough to please most, with some very good regional dishes to try. Both a la carte and menus are very reasonably priced.||Believe me - try the roasted pork that comes from the neck - very good medallions of ham-like meat. I love ice cream, and the coupe of very good vanilla ice cream with Armagnac and prune purée is in my ice cream hall-of-fame.||We usually ate in the dining room in the evening, but there is also a very attractive walled courtyard garden sheltered by umbrellas when weather permits. Think a palm tree, banana tree, flowers…||Coffee/tea maker. Small flat screen TV mounted high above the desk. No English language TV, although okay by me as I usually read in the evening. Just an FYI.||Staff throughout the hotel - waitstaff, at the desk, etc., are superb. Friendly, helpful, professional.||So why not give dots? Minor things that could be addressed - no soap at the sink (only shower gel mounted in the shower and lotion, both in a lovely ginseng scent.). ||Only two outlets to plug in your digital devices, and in inconvenient locations - one required unplugging the coffee pot, the other was under the night table.||The problem of no drawers anywhere and no spare luggage rack. One person has a place to put a suitcase to work out of it in the open closet. I slid my suitcase in and out of shelving when I needed something - I did not want to unpack everything and put it on open shelves. Just not that convenient. No drawers anywhere to make things look tidier. ||Again, the slipper chairs are not chairs for relaxing, and the desk surface was rather damaged.||But all in all, this was a nice stay and I know how to work around the small annoyances. (Yes, we often back small bars or soap gel yo use at hotels only offer shampoo/body gel.). At least this hotel had facial facial tissues when some 4-stars I’ve stayed in do not. ||I’d be happy to stay here for many of its very positive and comfortable features.