This is a typical motel by the road that needs some renovating and updating. There is a good bit of noise from the busy road but there are shutters that come down over the windows that cut some of the noise. There is no hairdryer in the bath, which was surprising since most hotels have them now. The motel restaurant did not offer a lot of choice on the dinner menu or the breakfast buffet.

Campanile Hotels are going through a redecoration process at the moment but it hadnt reached this one last week (Aug 10 and 11 2008). We stayed in the Bethune Campanile on the 9th and the improvements bring the chain out of the 90s really making a difference. That said this is a good clean hotel, we stayed two nights and had our room made up and fresh towels and tea/coffee materials on the second day. It is very close to the centre of Dieppe and as another reviewer said to the Auchan supermarket shopping mall and also a branch of Decathlon nearby too. the hotet restaruant is not bad but the basic "rapide" menu though adequate at just under 10 euros does not compare with what is on offer along the old harbour quayside for similar prices. So if you want a bit more value for money and a very wide choice don't do what we did on our first evening and eat at the hotel get down to the old town it is well worth it. The breakfast is a good value for adults wanting to charge the batteries for a long day but wasted on young teens who are happy with just a pain au chocolat from Auchan for substantially less than the 8 euros charged by the hotel.

We needed a hotel near Dieppe as we were travelling on the Newhaven - Dieppe crossing. We normally use the B&B Hotel chain as good clean cheap stopover but had a bad experience with B&B Dieppe on the outward leg so decided to go slightly up market on the return.

The chalet style hotel is more like a motel with each room having its own entrance. We were in room 11 which was more spacious and had much better beds than the B&B. We slept well, ate a hearty breakfast and set of the next day refreshed.

Campanile is famous for the excellent breakfast buffets and this was certainly no exception. Fresh bread, croissants and pastries, a toaster and fresh oranges with an electronic juice maker. As much fruit and yogurt as you want.

We had a slight problem of our own making when we realised that we had my wife's keys in our car, my wife was in Bordeaux and as Easter Monday was a holiday we could not go to a post office. The hotel staff were very helpful in organising return postage.

We stayed overnight at this Campanille hotel and found that it was more expensive than other french motorway stopovers and the room was just as basic, but the breakfast was much better and probably worth the difference. So use the real basic ones if you just want an overnight stop and then moving on but Campanille is better on the food front!