Nice location, the hotel is charming. Excellent sea food. Would like to go back.

quality hotel up a hill from the town, bit of a walk, better to drive. old castle type hotel but with some new modern touches inside. classy sitting areas and lounges. very very good breakfast included in the club room rate. dinner was a tasting menu and was totally overpriced, no other options offered. we would have done alacarte but they did not offer, so they lost out on money there. club room was small but fine and comfortable, very quite and great nights sleep. bath tub had a jacuzzi which was great. wonderful views. great pool which was outside, they said it was heated but it was still very cold, very comfortable sitting area around the pool. service was not great, sat after dinner one night in the lounge, leather armchair area and waited and waited, nobody came so we had to walk into the restaurant to ask if we could order a drink or see the menu. they said sure and would come back, they walked past twice and did not give us a menu or ask us what we wanted and even talked to some other guests in the conservatory area, so we gave up and did not order anything and walked off, not great service to be ignored certainly when its not a cheep place to stay, guess they are just not into providing a minimum level of service for their guests. service was the only bad point but should not really put me off recommending this hotel to stay but maybe avoid their restaurant prices and lack of bar service.

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.