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  Handily placed just a few hundred yards from the Med and within walking distance of the heart of Nice, the Jay Hotel is a comfortable and ...

A short walk from Les Deux Alpes' main drag and the speedy Diable chairlift, Hotel Ibiza is both eccentrically named and eccentrical...

Although it occupies an 100-year old building overlooking one of Paris' historic cemeteries, the Terrass Hotel Montmartre is bang up ...

Unless you are visiting the Cannes Mandelieu Space Centre, Mercure Cannes Mandelieu Hotel is in a very poor location. It sits in the midd...

A kind of hybrid of a hotel and a block of self-catering apartments, the Aparthotel Adagio Access Nice Acropolis is a cheap and grim plac...

In the heart of the historic town of Beaugency, the Hostellerie de L'Ecu de Bretagne is well placed for exploring this leisurely se...

In the shadow of a towering rock face in the crumbling hamlet of Gluges on the banks of the Dordogne, Hotel Les Falaises is a rambling an...

The Relais de Castelnau hasn't made the best of its enviable location. Although all the bedrooms boast captivating views north eas...

Se cluded, quiet and boasting extensive grounds overlooking rolling countryside, Hotel Le Troubadour  is both comfortable and  well-equip...

Well situated near the heart of the attractive old town of Souillac, La Vieille Auberge is a traditional French hotel with half-a-dozen...

A boxy, but businesslike, hotel well placed for Nice's Acropolis conference centre, this Novotel is a comfortable, convenient place...

Housed in an incongruous modern building in a historic Nice neighbourhood, the Hotel Kyriad Nice Port seems to be trying to keep capita...

Probably the biggest and the most swish of the Alpine chalet hotels used by British tour operator Esprit, Les Deux Domains is a short w...

Set in fairly flat and innocuous countryside, but within striking distance of La Loire, Nantes and the Breton coast, Chateau de Cop-Cho...

Majestically situated on a hillside overlooking rolling green countryside near the Mayenne river, the nineteenth century Château de la ...

With an enviable position opposite the majestic Abbaye de la Fontevraud, La Croix Blanche is well-placed to lure in tourists to its hot...

A small, but perfectly-formed, moated country house dating from the sixteenth century, Chateau de Villiers sits in splendid isolation ...

A three-star hotel has been shoe-horned into this timber-framed seventeenth century post house on the edge of a pretty green square just ...

Although it is run by a middle-aged Norwegian couple, this hotel and restaurant, housed in a 19th century terracotta building with bright...

Mid-range, comfortable, but characterless, modern business hotel well-positioned near the heart of Toulouse. It occupies a utilitarian build...