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!

A very basic chain hotel with parking on the outskirts of Dieppe. Good location for a quick stopover as it is located two miniutes from
a retail park with an Auchan hypermarket, fast food restaurants and the main roads into and out of Dieppe, about ten minutes from the ferry terminal.

The room was very small, bathroom adequate with shower, and paper thin walls. Decor tired and cleanliness just average. But it did have a kettle and tea/coffee which is very unusual in France. The breakfast at seven euros twenty was a help yourself cold buffet -plentiful and good. Staff polite and friendly. Not a hotel to linger in but a a basic budget option.