Just back from a 4 day / 3 night trip and felt I had to share.

1st: FOOD. This place only serves breakfast (€13 per person per day); therefore, despite advertising itself as being a HOTEL it is only a B+B. Upon arrival at the chateau we had to pay for a taxi to take us to the local SuperU and wait for us to do a supermarket sweep for food! Ridiculous. At least there was a fridge in the room.

2nd: SERVICE. Woeful. If you are not French (or at the very least do not speak French) you might as well forget it. We even got told off at 10pm one night for drinking / talking too loudly on the terrace!! This was with other hotel guests who were also staying for a night!! Turns out a French couple had complained. The only other guests at the chateau that night.

3rd: TAXIS do a roaring trade here. We had to use them at least twice a day just to eat; and that is only if we were lucky enough to book one (on a few occasions we were told they were all booked up!).

On the plus side, the infinity pool, although on the small side, was gently heated, peaceful, mostly empty, directly in the sun and faced onto the forest. Quite blissful!

Overall, it served as a great body boot camp with dreadful service. I would return again but only if I found out the management had changed!

We stayed three nights and my wife did not want to leave. The hotel is centrally located in Loire Valley which makes it ideal for exploring the historic Chateau.

The room was large with 14 foot beamed ceiling. It was just like the picture I seen on the web so I was not diappointed. The view of the trees was nice but the quiet was most appreciated as we just came from staying in Paris for a week. The bed was the most comfortable of all of the hotels we stayed in but the room price was the cheapest.

The dining room is very impressive in terms of food quality and presentation for such a rural hotel. The dinner at the hotel was better than the recommeded Frommers restaurant. The breakfast I prefer to get offsite however.

The only criticisim is the dated plumbing fixtures and the worn carpet.

This hotel is definately set up to please the American traveller with friendly staff that speak english and are willing to help. They suggested a hot air balloon company that not only saved us 50 euro but was one of only two balloons that were are able to lift off that evening due to it's smaller size. I think it is those extra things that make a trip memorable.