Hotel de Diane

"The hotel is a lovely building and in a good location with private parking opposite and plenty of street parking. We arrived around 3pm and couldn’t check in until 4 pm - they appeared to check if the room was ready but to be honest, I don’t think they did check and just wanted to reinforce the fact that the terms were 4pm. When we returned at 4pm they at first said the room still wasn’t ready but magically became ready when we complained. The room itself was fine, a good size with balcony, and nice bathroom with robes available. It was maybe a little sparse and had wicker chairs and bedside tables, which were totally unfit for purpose as you couldn’t balance a glass of water on them safely. The room was completely white with only one black and white picture on the wall so the effect was very monochrome and sparse. The breakfast was OK, not the best we have had in France. The egg boiler was not hot enough and our first attempt using the time we would cook them for at home resulted in almost raw eggs. The yogurts weren’t special and the fruit selection very limited. Now, to dinner…..just don’t eat here for dinner! We had booked dinner for the first night after a long day traveling but really wished we hadn’t. Only 4 choices of starter, main and dessert and as a vegetarian that meant 1 main option only which was a buckwheat gnocchi. Well, I got only 4 tiny pieces of gnocchi, swimming in an unknown lake of tasteless sauce with a few totally overcooked vegetables that reminded me of food cooked for weaning a baby….almost puréed. Dreadful. My husband got tough pork again with baby food type carrot purée. Thankfully we didn’t order starters as the desserts were just as awful as the mains. A very expensive mistake to eat here. Just don’t! The hotel is lovely and could be so much better but it needs a change of chef and for the owners to be friendly….they looked worn out and stressed and did not engage in any conversation either in English or French. It reminded us a bit of Fawlty Towers and Basil’s famous comment “what do you think this is….a hotel?!!!”"