Hôtel & Spa du Château

A good off-season centre for a trip to LA Rochelle. Very relaxing.

The restaurant menu was limited, probably owing to the season. Plenty good enough for two nights but would struggle for a third. There was a lot of confusion over the wine order and I would recommend ordering exclusively in either French or English but not mixing the two. The waitress was very helpful but clearly limited in English, although very anxious to try to accommodate us. It would have been easier just to stick to French.

A very beautiful building and grounds to the back and very reasonable in price for the overnight stay, it was clean and bright and the receptionists were very friendly.

An amazing looking bar and restaurant but with it being a Sunday evening (6pm arrival) it was all SHUT! Not able to get a snack or even have a drink in the bar, ridiculous for a hotel like that not even to have snacks available or even the bar open for a drink! Managed to buy a bottle of wine from reception to drink at a quite a costly price of €29 (when just outside of Bordeaux?!) But we had to pour it ourselves and sit out room to drink it! Also having travelled a great deal around France with our very little dogs they charged us for them stating which is a first! Finally, our room had a small patio area with a table and chairs but the ashtray was full of butts - yuck!