We encountered surly and unhelpful staff at this hotel and we would not recommend it. The breakfast was a total shambles and disorganised.
The restaurant does serve good food at dinner if you can get a table but we waited an hour from entering the restaurant to receiving our food.

Stayed here for 5 nights in June 07, as a base for exploring the Loire Valley by car. The hotel is to the south of the centre of Tours, and I would recommend approaching it by car from the south if possible - leave the A10 motorway at Junction 22 "Tours-sud" rather than Junction 21 which will take you through the centre of Tours - not a good idea!

There is an underground garage at the hotel for which they charge 10 Euros per night. We didn't use it as there is free parking on adjoining side streets and we did not have any problems finding a space each evening.

The hotel reception staff were pleasant and friendly, and spoke English to those guests who did not have any French. Many of the guests were large groups of people travelling by coach, and the reception area and lifts could be uncomfortably crowded when one or more of these groups was waiting to go off for the day.

Our room was large, spacious and clean, as was the bathroom, and there was very effective air-conditioning.

The breakfast buffet was fine, there was plenty to choose from. There is also a restaurant open in the evenings, although we did not eat at the hotel.

The hotel is a good 15 minute walk from the old town area of Tours, so it is a bit of a trek to go there for an evening meal. However, we found a good fish restaurant about 10 minutes away, straight up Ave Grammont - La Chope, on the left-hand side as you walk towards the old town.

I would recommend this hotel as a base for touring the Loire Valley, as Tours is within 30 miles of many of the main chateaux - Chenonceau, Azay-Le-Rideau and Villandry, for example.

We got married on May 2006 in Tours. We had booked 3 months in advance 2 rooms for some of our guests coming from abroad.

Two days before the wedding date, the hotel Turone called us to cancel our reservation telling us that there had been some flooding in the rooms.

We enquired about feasibility to allocate other rooms as the hotel has more than 100 rooms and we booked 3 months before the date, but they refused.

As in the past, we experienced similar last-minute cancellations by hotels that need rooms to accept booking for a group or individuals for a longer stay, we decided to check at the hotel if the flooding was real.

I called the manager of the hotel and told him that somebody would come to check the rooms. My mother presented herself at the reception desk shortly after and she was refused access to check the rooms by the manager. In addition, when I called the reception, another lady was not aware of any problem with flooding.

All this confirmed that the hotel has cancelled our booking to accomodate another booking and lied to us about the true reasons. This has created a considerable amount of stress to reallocate people to another hotel at the last minute.

Fortunately, our wedding ceremony went smoothly, not thanks to Hotel Turone!