Hôtel de la Cité

The hotel is located inside the walls of the city, so the location was great. It was a bit stressful for driving, as the streets are narrow, packed with pedestrians, and lined with restaurants. It is manageable though, and there is fairly cheap parking right outside the hotel. It was free between 8 pm and 9 am. There is also parking outside the walls if it's too stressful. The room, while huge and pretty comfortable, looked like it was renovated in the 70s and would have been pretty groovy then, but hasn't held up well. The air conditioning did not work. This wasn't an issue for us as it was quite cool, but if we had been there a few days later when temps reached the high 30s I would have been pretty unimpressed. We did not notify them the AC didn't work, they might have dealt with it right away as the staff were quite friendly and helpful.

Front desk staff were friendly and helpful. Our room was clean and comfortable. We had a room on the side of the hotel, but it had a balcony that we could walk out on to see the water and fort. Parking is easy and inexpensive in the lot outside the hotel once you make it through the narrow, crowded pedestrian streets.

We came off an early morning ferry and asked at the hotel if we could drop our bags but we were lucky as the helpful receptionist said our room was ready. A pleasant hotel in a great location in the centre of st malo. Only issue is the Irish bar located on one side which can be noisy late into the night