Pau is a very interesting city with a remarkable history and great sites to visit, as well as a vibrant restaurant scene, with high quality establishments as well as the standard touristy places. The hotel is a refurbished traditional in-town hotel with an obviously elegant history, and terrific facade. Our room was on the top floor, and perhaps because it was a holiday with not too many other guests, we had a very large room with spectacular views over the Avenue Marechal Foch, the key boulevard. The staff was attentive and helpful, and we enjoyed being so close to the Chateau and town center so access to may great restaurants was easy (despite the holiday closings). The only drawback is the difficulty getting to the hotel via our GPS, as many of the streets are one way and while we could see the hotel we had to find ways around the Entree Interdite signs to figure out how to reach it (GPS kept sending us around in circles a block or so away from the hotel itself. Having visited a few other provincial cities this trip, we did not have high expectations for PAU, but were delighted to find it was a great destination and the Best Western an ideal location to see it.