Hôtel La Matelote

Very nice, small hotel with a special design at the neach front in walking distance from old town. outstanding service and a classy restaurant with excellent food and wine. Breakfast was great!

A big family reunion so we decided to make a weekend of it and book a hotel with a nice restaurant so we could all enjoy it. Had a wonderful time. Food and service was out of this world. We were 11 people and service can sometimes be slow with this amount of people but it was perfect. Staff were friendly and nothing was too much trouble. The hotel facilities were great and the rooms clean, well equipped and comfortable beds. The breakfast was simply staggering. A vast array including fried bacon and eggs. Cannot recommend enough, and dog friendly too.

Perfect overnight stay at La Matelote! We enjoyed every minute from a very helpful and friendly check-in, to a beautiful, spacious and clean room, and not to forget our amazing meal in the evening. The staff were very attentive and patient with our large group.... we didn't feel rushed, and nothing was too much trouble. I wish we could have stayed longer to enjoy the spa and other amenities. We will certainly be back soon!

We stayed for two nights. Our room was to the rear of the hotel. It was very clean and had everything we required. The mini bar (which we didn’t use) had a reasonable selection of drinks. ||The shower over the bath was quite dangerous as there was no bath mat. The surface of the bath was slippery when wet. There were no grab handles and a fixed panel of glass. This needs to be addressed. The room was a reasonable size. All the staff were very helpful.

In 15 years we have visited this hotel to stay and eat twice and twice to the restaurant alone .|Honestly though the experience would be so much nicer if the staff in the hotel and restaurant were warm , friendly , engaging, smiling . Most of them have never been this . Only the wine waitress was friendly and the restaurant staff never like to use English in our experience . |Dishes are not explained by waiting staff . We took the tasting menu which generally was good but the service was bit slow …so much so that two of the dishes were not served hot enough and looked tired …I think they had been left in the kitchen too long. The whole experience was underwhelming .||As for the hotel …we had stayed 10 years ago for our 30 th wedding anniversary …this time for our 40 th …but there was not a single acknowledgment of this . |Greeting and departure were abysmal . It was pouring with rain and windy and I used the intercom at the garage to establish where to park . It was two twenty pm. The first response when I said I wanted to park to check in was to say check in was at 3 pm ( hello , welcome to the Matelote !) . My wife then had to walk to the reception ( despite a route possible in the dry thru the garage could have been offered ) to collect the garage key . The receptionist, if properly trained could have offered us a at least to wait in the lounge with a coffee…..and of course the rooms were ready …he was just playing by the book !|On check out the receptionist , a different one, produced an invoice and I paid …..not one comment …’ hope u had a nice stay , how was everything ?have a good journey , come again .|???||The bedrooms feel very old fashioned …dark red and gold and brown furniture …dated in style …they need a lift ||I am a retired travel agent and have inspected and stayed in thousands of hotels in my time . I know what service should look like . Our stay here was at odds with the night before in a fabulous little four star hotel not far away …where the staff were warm , welcoming and celebrated our anniversary in many ways with us …..with equally as good food and better value . ||I don’t believe the restaurant holds a Michelin star any more . ||Really , I have always had a slight issue with the service here and was apprehensive about this stay but ready to be pleasantly surprised ….I think for us now the hotel and restaurant is past its sell-by date . We won’t return

Lovely hotel with nice views. The staff were very helpful and their English was amazing ( good job because our French is in need of improvement!) The icing on the cake is by far the restaurant food, all I can say is wow! We will return if only to eat in the restaurant again. Well done, wonderful hotel and staff. Thank you for a truly special stay.

The hotel is nicely located. A few minutes' walk from the beach. The rooms are spacious and nice. Good air conditioning. Breakfast was a buffet and quite well furnished. Staff very friendly. I just had a strange credit card transaction a week before arrival, they blocked 50€ as a security in case,we didn't come although my reservation had a 48 hours cancellation guarantee. When asked, what would have happened, had I cancelled, I got no answer. They said it was their usual method. I am a frequent traveler and it's a first for me.

Very easy hotel when you want to visit nausicaa with kids. It’s really 50m from the hotel. In the hotel there’s a pool / wellness to have some fun! The restaurant with *star is a really plus but unfortunately not accessible for kids because the dinner starts 19.30

Went specially for lunch at in the last week of August. Had reserved by e-mail and was responded to quickly and clearly. I had not been there for some 8 years, but it remained familiar in aspect, though the other parts of Tony Lestienne's empire have grown significantly. Expected it to be full with lots of holiday makers, but it was almost empty perhaps because the weather was solid rain. And suspect they also were prepared for quiet, there did not seem to be a lot of staff about. So lunch got off a bit slowly, but soon got up to speed. I think we had a little difficulty as we needed to warm up our French. We chose the Menu Degustation as it was just what I had in mind with a strength in fish but not exclusively fish. Foie Gras, Cassolet Homard, Turbot, Lamb, Fromages, Puddings. The mises en bouche were very tasty and imaginative, the Foie Gras attrative and splendid, the Homard lost in it's 'soup' (but the soup did bring the Rolly Grassman Gewertz out wonderfully) though the soup was that wholly correct dark boulibasse you get sometimes. We went on to a minor red Auxey Duresses. The Turbot had a splendid idea of blending two dressings without a divder from one at one end of the fish to the other at the other and was very good, I was somehow less impressed with the fish itself, perhaps it is that translucent thing again. The lamb I requested not pink and that is how it arrived, and it was very good though I suspect they disdained. The cheeses were top class including a local 'new discovery'. The puds were outstanding, particularly a bowl of liquid chocolate and red fruits. We finished with a very traditional and slightly earthy Beaumes de Venise - the sommelier not understanding that we wanted to choose, but it was good just the same. Mignardises were also very good. Yup, when ever I can I'll be back.

This is a little gem of a restaurant serving high quality food at the French pace of life. A meal can take easily 3 hours if you want it to. The waiters are helpful and professional. The restaurant is located inside a small unassuming hotel of the same name. Rooms are pleasant, nicely decorated, have crisp sheets and some have( obstructed) views of the channel. If you are in the area and would like a very pleasant meal this establishment should do the trick. Although not cheap, you get a lot for your money, including a bit of style and charm.

I had a fantastic Dinner at this Hotel restaurant as I didnt fancy going back into town in the evening. The experience was fine dining at its best. As my french is not very good there was a little guesswork but the results were stunning. I had a fish terrine starter which was delish, a duck main and a mouthwatering dessert and some 1st cru wine. The staff were very polite and it was busy so you may have to book.

tonight it was exelent! the food, we had the sugested menu, very good, with sometimes suprising aromes (espresso foam with the foie gras). The wine resonable priced and the service warm and welcome. the coffe ad the end a little to thin Not 5 stars, because for their niveua the expectations may be also very high?!