“Fantastic location and pool, food mundane.”

First the good - The location is excellent, right by a lovely sandy beach, with the lovely inviting and well maintained heated outdoor seawater pool overlooking the beach. The hotel also has an excellent indoor pool. The centre of Biarritz is about a 10 minutes' stroll away, either along the promenade or through the main street. Then the not so good - The evening food was uninteresting, expensive and lacked variety. The breakfast was better, but poor value at 28 euros - it was much better to go to a friendly little cafe less than 10 minutes away and have coffee and croissants for about 3 - 5 euros (La Ferme St. Charles in Rue du Lycee) while watching the world go by. Finally the "they meant well", but! - The hotel had a policy that every five towels reused (rather than washed) would mean one tree saved, but any used towels were changed at least daily (someone comes round after 5 p.m. to check). The colour of the notice to hang on the outside of the door (Do not disturb/Please make up my room) was the same both sides. If one left out a notice "Do not disturb" they would check at 3 p.m. - it was obviously more important to them that the room was cleaned rather than that guests were not disturbed in the afternoon.