Been staying at this hotel in preference to the Campinale on the same site for the last three years or so. The site is handy if you are heading down the road towards Belgium after a late night crossing and moving off in the morning. The Campinale rooms are better but more expensive. They have a proper bathroom whilst these have a shower that drenches the bathroom floor so use of toilet after shower means socks off.
Use to look at the Premiere Classes whilst staying at the Campinale and wonder what it was like but when the price difference increased the Campinale breakfast became expensive and minimalistic with a lack of fresh fruit switched over fully to using the Premiere Classes to sleep and eat breakfast in. One year we shared the hotel with the French riot police who were charging up the radio batteries and probably polishing their tear gas cannisters and battons - one room devoted to this task, the others they were staying in. This was a Xmas a few years back when the fishermen I believe were taking industrial action. Since then had a noisy neighbour watching TV at 3AM in the morning etc. So comments from other posters below about neighbours, it's true, to me, you pay the money and take the chance. If they are fellow travellers like you crossing Europe by car they might treat you with respect and be silent but if they are self centred little so and so's the build of these budget French hotels in my experience isn't going to stop noise. So beware the younger fellow hotel guests who have complete disregard for anybody else.
The wifi is free and since May this year has improved, they must have read my comments feed back where I said they need another router on the first floor, that one in the reception doesn't serve the whole building. This sorted now. As for breakfast is concerned if you are leaving the UK and are going to pork it up on your travels then the diminutive continental breakfast is sufficient and good value. You can have as much as you like as long as it's continental. Between May 2011 and December 2011 they introduced a new breakfast menu which means no cheese and the fresh coffee has become a machine. Croissants were a bit lack lacklustre and machine produced wrapped in their own Premiere Class band, French stick was very good. Choice of salt or no salt butter with packages of jam or honey. There is a toaster.
Over the years that one has been staying here, this year 2011 is when they decided to start using the barriers for the car park at night. The Campinale did this for a bit. If arriving late at night the all important code for the gate is printed on the bottom of the room receipt generated by the automated check in machine. So the process must be leave car at gate if you don't know the code, check in via machine, run back and let the car in, unless someone arrives as you do. This will take several minutes of blocking the gate and the 100 metre run.
The other advantage of this hotel for late at night is the automated check in, the Campinale you have to ring up and they leave the key somewhere. Reception staff are friendly.
