Judging from the pictures of famous people in the salon you can tell that the hotel once was THE place to be in Etretat from the mid-eighties up the millenium. Today it still is a very nice and pleasant hotel to stay. The individually decorated rooms merge the interior design to the fabric of the chateau and the villa making up the compound. Especially the view overlooking the city, the cliffs and the ocean compensate for some staff oscitancies. Still, the hotel staff is very friendly, but could pay more attention to guest sitting in the salon and waiting to be served. The hotel is very clean, but again could be cleaner in the sense that one would expect a hotel of such class to be flawlessly clean.
The petit dejeuner is really good (go get it yourself from the buffet, don't opt for breakfast in your room) and great to start the day. Talking food, I have to say, that the restaurant was not as exquisite as one would expect in such a hotel. Although, nicely furnished and eloquently serviced the menu did not justify the price we paid. Just go somewhere else, the prices for wine are hilariously exaggerated and the same amount of money spent on drinks there, could provide you with a nice plate de jour somewhere else.
Let's sum up. We stayed a week. We enjoyed it and it is not impossible to consider a second stay in this hotel. With some refurbishing and tighter line management of staff, they perhaps would be able to add some recent celebrities to their photo collection of famous guests.

Our recent visit to Domaine St Clair in Etretat will not be repeated. We live in France and travel frequently to this part of Normandy. For this price, we feel we have the right to expect hot water from the tap, a clean, tidy environment, a reading light on both sides of the bed, and NOT to see chipped paint, and extremely tacky decoration. The website most definitely misleads, both in its description of its packages, and in its photos of the rooms, public and private. This was once a beautiful old house that has been overpainted and undercleaned. The first room we were offered resembled what one might imagine a 2nd class bordello to look like, and the second room had no bedside table on my side of the bed and spots on the wall in the water closet. The two cases of bottles, strategically placed right at the bottom of a spiral staircase, where guests could easily trip over them, was the coup de grace! Eat here if you must, but stay somewhere else.

a very nice hotel, friendly staff and very helpful, had a great meal, everything was perfect for a couple of days away on our own.

Questionable cleanliness of the room and absolutely no pressure in the shower. For this price you'd certainly expect a bit more. Question of taste but the decoration all over the place is heavy and disturbingly and uncoordinatedly baroque