La Toubana Hotel & Spa

The accommodation impresses guests with comfortable beds, spacious rooms, and stunning sea views. It also provides exceptional service, multiple pools, and a picturesque location near the beach.

First the great points - beautiful hotel with stunning views out across the bays, bar staff fabulous, friendly, welcoming, knowledgeable and professional- thanks to Christopher and his great team. Rooms (we had junior garden suite) lovely with good facilities as expected in a 5 star hotel. A reasonable stroll to the beach a bit of a climb back but very short and transport could be arranged if needed. Now the gripes which prevented a 5 rating these are the things that irked us may be they wouldn’t others. The food offering at the bar is poor we were there for 2 weeks and it didn’t change we of course went out and about and didn’t eat at the hotel daily but when we did with an ala carte restaurant or pool bar to chose from if you didn’t want a full on dining experience then the bar only offered a limited snack menu which stayed the same irrespective of time of day or eve - dips with toast, pizza or fried balls. At the beach the menu was more varied with salads why not offer this at the bar or fruit kebabs, grilled fish kebabs, grilled chicken etc. Getting about is difficult - car hire very expensive although we knew this before we left so was prepared. However what we weren’t prepared for was taking a taxi arranged by the hotel to Sainte Anne that cost 45 euro more than one we picked up from the local rank…. Needless to say we only arranged it through them once and made our own arrangements for a taxi other times - wasn’t the easiest as French very limited but with google translate we managed it.

We have stayed in beautiful hotels in a number of beautiful locations around the world, but none have been as good as La Toubana. We stayed in one of the sea view villas and this was simple but comfortable, in keeping with the feel of the hotel in general. The service in all areas of the hotel was exceptional and all the staff were friendly, knowledgeable and helpful. The setting of the hotel is gorgeous, laid out over a hillside leading down to a beautiful protected beach. While the path down to the beach is steep, there is a golf cart to take you back up and the staff are only too happy to do so. The food and drink are of a high standard, and this really was a holiday I could not fault in any meaningful way.