Chateau de Druon

The accommodation impresses with spacious, comfortable rooms, tasty homemade breakfast, and ideal location near ski resort, shops, and restaurants. Guests appreciate the warm hospitality and cleanliness.

I very much wanted to like Chateau Druon. It has so much potential as a boutique, upscale hotel experience in the French Pyrenees. And if you don’t mind bugs (spiders, flies, ants, cobwebs), musty old towels, and other minor inconveniences such as a shower where you can’t fully stand up, then it may be the place for you. Perhaps you find the overgrown garden and brackish fountain charming, or the peeling paint on the chateau facade and whiff of cigarette smoke on the ornate marble staircase brings to life the decaying French grandeur you were seeking in your authentic Pyrénées vacation stay. By all means, this hotel was beautiful, unique, and charming in its own way. But for me, if the same attention to detail on the art and decor was applied to the minor and easily solvable issues like an exterior power wash, a room dusting/vacuuming, some new sheets and towels, a filter replacement in the bathroom vent, a landscaper, etc. then it would have been a more comfortable hotel stay instead of what felt like an unkempt rural French art museum.