Le Continental Hotel

“Comfortable, clean room. Excellent on-site restaurant.”

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 … more

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.

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“Great service”

Very friendly!! Accommodating, petit dejeuner had great selection and fresh. Customer service was excellent. Bed great! Our room was facing the street, otherwise I’d given a higher score. Dinner was fresh and very tasty. Excellent fish!