Name: Hôtel Belle Epoque
Address: 14 Avenue Gambetta, Chinon, Chinon, Chinon, 37500, France
Rating: 7

24-hour reception

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Musée d'Art et d'Histoire

Pierre et Bertrand Couly

St-Pierre-Corps RailSt

Val de Loire Airport

Place Charles de Gaulle

Notre Dame La Grande

Futuroscope

Palais de Justice

Place du Marechal Leclerc

Poitiers Cathedral

Saint-Jean Baptistery

Musee Sainte-Croix

St-Hilaire-le-Grand Church

Parc de Blossac

University of Poitiers

Catholic University of Angers

Jardin des plantes d'Angers

Musee des Beaux-Arts

Angers Cathedral

University of Angers

Galerie David d'Angers

Hôtel Belle Epoque

Chinon

It was a nice little hotel. The room was clean and comfortable. The historic centre is well situated, walking to it. The closed car park is very convenient. The reception was very good. I think the price ratio is good. I recommend this establishment.

Comfortable and well situated

Check in was efficient and easy. Staff absolutely delightful. The room was extremely "bijou", certainly no room for error and on the second floor, with no lift. Apart from the shower the room was very clean and the bed very comfortable. For me personally the shower was hard to negotiate, rather a high step in and out and with wet feet, I didn't really feel safe. Breakfast was adequate. We stayed for 2 nights and I was pleased that the room was tidied as soon as we left for the day. The resident cat was also very friendly. The only real downside was the bar didn't open in the evening, but we had a bottle of wine and sat on the lovely little terrace after our day exploring. 

A bit of a squeeze.

Excellent stay on route from Nice to StMalo
Room basic but very clean - good breakfast and staff very friendly
Returned for lunch which was very good value for money 
Parking very secure at the rear of the hotel
Within easy walking distance of the town which is well worth a visit

Great Hotel

Stayed here for a few days whilst visiting Chinon. Basic but clean room with comfy clean bed and en suite. Locked secure car park which was great for our open topped three wheelers. Very good buffet breakfast and friendly staff. Fair price too. Recommended.

Excellent hotel.

A lovely small hotel with bar only 10 mins walk from the centre .Although no food allowed in the room. There is a pleasant  covered area at the back of the hotel where we picnicked both days. The rooms are practical and clean.

Hotel full of charm, quiet and very clean. Very friendly manager and very pleasant reception. Clean room with good bed. Private and secure parking. Very nice building! And nothing to say about breakfast. I highly recommend!!

It's a nice stop

We stayed in a family room of the Belle époque hotel on the night of July 24-25, 2021. This family hotel wants to be a charming hotel that should please foreign guests but it seemed mostly old-fashioned to us. The bathroom was completely to be repaired (broken failing paintings damaged, black joints..). The literature is excellent however but we could not enjoy it because of the unbearable heat of the room! While the temperature was very nice that night on Chinon, the heat was unbearable in this small room requiring combles.

Avoid it in the summer!

We were lucky enough to stay there for one night by booking at the last minute. Very clean room and comfortable bunk. A warm and very friendly welcome from the owner who kindly agreed to keep our luggage until our return the next afternoon. A buffet lunch at will, grocery and excellent bread. A lunch in the lunchroom and bar, right in front of the Station, which is very convenient. Thank you very much and we will be glad to return!

Very good address

Very nice hotel, it has a nice name! Old-fashioned staircase, I love it! Flower court and private and perfectly secure parking, perfect when you have a loaded car and you stop for a night on the holiday road! We had the family room, very convenient despite its small size, 2 toilets and 2 showers c was perfect for us 5! Very good and quiet bed despite the train station is nearby. Very complete lunch, very friendly reception despite our late arrival, thank you very much! We will come back if we have the opportunity.

That's a very good address.

Our France 2019 trip rolled on to Chinon.  After the blistering heat of Blois and then particularly again in Amboise, our journey was much more pleasant with temperatures a little over 20°C (that was nearly a 25°C drop in temperature in about 8 hours.  The journey down from Amboise to Chinon which sits on La Vienne, a tributary to the mighty Loire, was not too difficult and took, at what was a gentle pace, a couple of hours.

On arrival at about 13:45 we easily found the hotel and drove straight into the private secured car-park.  Being a tad early to check-in we went to hotel’s bar which is a popular spot for locals, to have at least a coffee or a cold drink.  We were lucky because the lady at the bar managed to get the kitchen to produce a cold snack which we found most welcome, together with a glass each of good local wine.

Our room was tiny and to say that the combined bathroom/WC was compact would be a significant understatement.  The entrance to the shower was not very wide and up a large step which made getting out a bit precarious.  No grab handles were fitted and you really need to be careful not to slip: as a sudden descent would be painful with a sink and WC in close proximity.  The shower however was great – really nice flow of good hot water.  The bright mosaic tiling was probably best seen with eyes not affected by any hangover from the night before!  A plumbed-in hairdryer with handy mirror over the (chipped and cracked) sink was provided and worked well.  The toilet roll dispenser was of industrial size.

The room furnishings and facilities included bedside tables, a small disk, with a lamp and a tiny uncomfortable stool, a shelving unit, a door-less wardrobe unit, a luggage stand, a mirror, an electric convector heater, a flat-screen TV with remote, a floor-standing electric fan, a selection of brochures and leaflets about local attractions and two 3ft beds (properly) linked together.  The bed was too close to the desk to pass without shuffling sideways.  The bed was a tad hard for my partner, but I found it OK but the pillows were particularly skinny.  Decorations in the room were clean and reasonable but the up and around the stairs they needed attention.

Breakfast was fairly good – all the usual stuff (very good croissant but no ‘special’ artisan breads that we have had elsewhere, and no cold meats either).  Unless you eat heartedly you’re not going to get your 9€ worth.  We ate lightly and just went with the flow and the comfort but some people like to get value.  The breakfast room is pleasant being light, airy and clean.

This hotel was selected because of its good comfort rating and its reasonable proximity to the Centre Ville (a 15-minute stroll).  The SNCF train station sits opposite but trains seemed to be rare apart from early on the first morning.  This raises my major gripe: because a diesel locomotive arrived at something past 6 o’clock.  It sat there with its engine running for a good half hour, thus ensuring that I was fully wide-awake by the time it moved-on.  Really!!

My second gripe is that we booked this hotel very nearly a year ago and we must have been one of their earliest bookings for the night of our stay.  So, pray tell me, why we were in the attic, up two flights of winding narrow stairs (43 in all)?  One of the four first floor rooms was required and expected.

My last gripe was that there was no Wi-Fi availability in our room.  The station was visible in my Wi-Fi list (and at a good strength) but it would just not connect.  We had to go down to the bar and drink wine just to get the internet!  Life’s a b****.

Other than these issues the staff were great and the breakfast was more than adequate.  As our stay progressed we grew more to like this hotel and my major gripe about the noise of the trains is outside of their control.

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