Jane47
Google
We stayed at le Grand Bé for a second time for 3 nights over new year. We’d had a fairly good stay there last summer and love the intra muros location and on site electric car charging, so thought we’d give it another try. What a mistake!||||To start with there was no lunch or dinner option – either restaurant or room service at all over the entire stay (unless you booked the New Year’s Eve events that is). We couldn’t believe it. There were various reasons give by the hotel each day; from the fact that the kitchen doesn’t open on a Monday, to chef availability, to it was new year. Not what we expected from a large 4* hotel, and certainly without pre arrival warning.||||We booked a suite with a terrace – unfortunately the terrace turned out to be a little more than a dark, dirty windowless room above the bins – with no view at all. Very unlike the pictures had led us to believe. The suite was only set up for 2 when we arrived although we had booked for 3 people. We had to ask for the extra bed to be made up, which was done begrudgingly at best (4pm), although an extra towel didn’t arrive until the next day when a further request had to be made. There was no bath plug. Again we asked for one but were told it wasn’t possible to have one until the day after…… The suite wasn’t as clean as it should have been in several places – from dirty glasses to a large ball of dust next to the bed. I pointed everything out to housekeeping and again to reception, who seemed empathetic and promised to resolve it, but despite several attempts they never sorted it all out. After multiple trips to see the reception, we were eventually offered a small discount as a goodwill gesture. A gesture at least but it was too little too late really, particularly as it still didn’t lead to the remaining problems being fixed. ||I had to laugh when we checked out and a fellow guest was also complaining about countless things. Yet believe it or not, the hotel manager assured me that complaints are rare ! I think the Trip advisor reviews show otherwise!