We visited La Rochelle and asked the tourist office to book us a hotel room, they attempted around 5 hotels in the area and were finally able to book us into this one.

Premier Classe is, in this case, the over statement of the year.

Not only was it located in an exceptionally difficult to find location, but there was nothing around except the restaurant next door (part of the Campanile chain). therefore by the time we located it we were so worn out we didn't want to get back in the car.
I would say these hotels are used by contractors in the building trade, in which case they are probably OK.
For tourists though forget it. The room stank of stale cigarette smoke and was very badly outdated. Red lino on the floor which had seen better days, a very odd wall light that resembled a light "sabre"and not in a good way, but the worse thing was the double bed had a single bunk bed over the top of it, so you felt enclosed whilst sleeping.

One thing we were grateful for was that despite being very close to a motorway we didn't hear any traffic noise. Other than that it was a place to leave fast......