Nice hotel. My stay was four days on a business trip. Rooms are clean and tidy, staff polite and speak English. Bathrooms a wee bit on the small side but nicely done with lots of wood.
Breakfast buffet was ok. Nothing special. One would have liked something a bit more exciting for the price.
All in all a pretty good experience. Would go there again.

The hotel was great, room ready on arrival The rooms were very clean.
English spoken. Tea/coffee in room.
The reception staff went out of their way to make my stay enjoyable.
.Meals were great!
I would stay there again - perhaps upgrade to a water view room.

A very good and reasonably priced hotel. Staff were polite and helpful. The room was of good standard and as I wanted a room with a bath on booking, on arrival, staff quickly changed me from a room with only a shower. Lovely selection of food at breakfast which was included in the price. I had looked at several budget hotels but chose Mercure for facilities and location. I also liked the little day pack which was useful for sight seeing. A nice touch. Very, good value. I would stay here again.

Thank goodness Mercure have started putting kettles in the rooms as it makes the stay so much more pleasant. Access to the hotel is a problem, not because it is difficult, but because the website directs one to Vieux Port Sud and the Gare. However if it said go to parking St Nicholas or even the Aquarium, it would take one straight to the hotel. As it is I drove round a myriad of roads in La Rochelle, which is not the easiest of towns to drive round, asked lots of people the way, only to find that had I followed Parking St Nicholas I would have gone straight there. The private car park is a real bonus once you have found the hotel, because parking is not easy in La Rochelle and can be expensive depending where you park. Once parked in the hotel car park I didn't use the car for 4 days because everything is in walking distance or you can hire a bike at the tourist office about 100 metres from the hotel.