Very nice garden and big pool. Excellent breakfast. We loved the decoration of the room. Wonderful staff. We will come back again.

A haven of peace in the city with its large garden and pool area. Great room decoration and newly renovated bathrooms (at least in our case). Nice breakfast and extremely helpful staff.

This hotel is in a great location to visit the Camargue, Les Baux and south Rhone cities of Arles, Avignon and Aix. Its just out of the small town of Istres with Martigues just down the road. On approach it looks good with a large pool at the front a very pleasant bar/ restaurant close by and ample parking in the grounds. The reception is clean and airy and the staff friendly and assisted my mediocre French by speaking some English.
As someone has said the rooms have various themes , ours was Morrocco with the wierdest looking paintings of camels you would ever see.
And it is here the hotel begins to disappoint. It was a bit iffy in the bathroom with the shower hardly working and an internal balacony that was neglected , dusty and v tired. The corridors seemed like a school though they were carpeted.
Outside why oh why did they not make much better use of the bar/restaurant , next to the pool it was never open (apart from breakfast). It could have been the centre of loads of activity with the glorious weather we had.
A 3 star hotel that could have been a 4 star with just a few small improvements. Overall however I would recommend for a 1 or 2 day stopover but no more.

We stayed for three nights in Istres while visiting Camargue, Provence, and surroundings. The rooms are recently renovated and each is decorated with a different theme - we had oriental and pop-art decorated, adjacent rooms, one with a balcony. The rooms are very pleasant, but the bathrooms really need to be updated - good thing that they were actually redoing some of the lower floor bathrooms while we were there. Nice outdoor pool on-site, with facilities for barbecue and free wifi in the rooms. The rooms were cleaned every day, but not with much care. I could see dust on the white furnitrue/appliances and circle marks from the shampoo bottles in the bathroom. The price was unbeatable, though, half of everything else. Location is also good - within 1-1.5 hrs. drive you're in Avignon, Aix, or Camargue. Really nice restaurants on the lake (you need to drive 5 min), for breakfast go to a boulangerie or cafe in the old city - the on-site breakfast is a little expensive (EUR10). If we're in Istres, we'll stay here again.