Booked to stay at La Maison d'a Cote for two nights with dinner in the much vaunted rstaurant. Received confirmation of booking and table reservations in restaurant, but when we arrived we found that the hotel was locked until 5.00pm and when it did open we were told that the restaurant was closed and we would have find another place to eat in another village. The sole member of staff was an abusive receptionist who pursued us down the street screaming 'We have your credit card number and will charge you' Not exactly my idea of frence accuelle.

This hotel rates very highly on tripadvisor, so we had high expectations. I feel it lives up to the hype but I think when it has such glowing reports its hard to arrive with an open mind! We stayed here for 5 nights and used it as a base for our travels around the Loire Valley. This is a little bit off the beaten track and a car is neccessary. I wouldn't say it is the nicest village but its okay. The rooms are smallish but comfortable, breakfast, the usual and quite okay. It seems to me most people come for the restaurant and it really is excellent. We ate here on our first night and it was very good. The other nights we ate in neighbouring Blois ( a pleasant town) and a local bistrot just down from the Maison, it was okay too. The last night there we ate a picnic on the rooftop terrace( there are excellent local produce shops very close by) and watched the top notch chefs at work in the kitchen below(thru the sky light!!) I would recommend but the restaurant is expensive.

A reasonable hotel with clean functional rooms close to the remarkable chateau at Chambord.

The is a roof garden where you can sit out and smoke if you wish. You can also peer into the kitchen which we did. We were glad that we didn't eat in the restaurant after what we witnessed!

We stayed here for one night as a stopover on a long journey from the Dordogne back to Calais....we booked through chateauxhotels.co.uk where you have the option to book the restaurant which we thought would be a great idea as we would be tired from the drive.
Arrived in the village to find what appeared to be a building site surrounding the hotel as they appear to be digging all the roads up and renovating the area surrounding the church opposite...it looks like this will be the case for a good couple of months so be warned....very dusty.
Checked into the hotel which was nicely decorated and a complete contrast to the drab village in which it resides....unfortunately the hotel seemed to have lost the booking for the restaurant which we were not best pleased about and they didn’t seem too bothered by. They booked us into a sister restaurant but this was at least a 30 min drive from where the hotel was so we cancelled and drove into Chambord (5 mins)and ate at the Hotel Grand St. Michel which overlooks the chateau....excellent food with a great view (so possibly a good thing they lost our booking at La Maison).
Hotel was OK but not great...emphasis was definitely on the restaurant and the hotel part seemed like an afterthought...air con didn't work (surprisingly hot for May)...7 Euros for a 33cl organic beer was just a tad expensive if you ask me :-0