Saint-Vallier-de-Thiey Holidays from £353

Great hotel. Thoroughly recommend

Excellent stay for our family with young children. Relaxing environment, amazing pool, kind staff.

First the positive. The room was clean, quiet and a short walk to the beach. Now the negative. Upon arrival there was a security gate to enter through. A numbered keypad and call button were located there. After many attempts all the call button did was ring. No one picked it up. I tried the phone number listed on the hotels.com website. That didn’t work either. Frustrated I decided to climb over the gate. The front desk person then came out. He apologized, saying he knew the call button was inoperative. Seriously? He couldn’t leave the gate unlocked? There was another secure door with a keypad at the hotel entrance. The hotel has no lift, so you have to lug your baggage in our case up stairs to the third floor. The room was obviously an attic space converted to a room. Sloping ceilings and wood beams. If you’re over 4 feet, you will hit your head getting out of bed. The A/C produced virtually nothing cold. The room was hot, at least 80 F. The front desk is unmanned after 8PM, so there’s no resolution to problems. A hostel would be much better value. No way would I stay again or recommend this hotel. I don’t often complain, but this hotel was an insult.

The main big disappointment and what was not clearly indicated during the booking is that the resort does not have its own beach area - you have to go to a public beach or pay for a private beach - we had to pay for towels and beach beds each day (€.5 per towel per person per day and €30 per person per day for the beach beds). The room was clean, parking available on the premises, which was great. The beach view was ok not a full sea view - it was through the side of the building . The room had soap and shampoo but not hair conditioner - we had to go buy it from the supermarket. They only give a bottle of water per person for the first day, remainder of the trip we had to buy water.

Overall a nice hotel and friendly staff. Falsely advertised and marketed as being on the beach. The pictures used are misleading . About a 10 minute walk to the Nice Beach. Rooms are small.