Name: Chambres Bidegain
Address: 13 Rue de la Navarre, 64130 Mauléon-Licharre, France, Mauleon-Licharre, Mauleon-Licharre, Mauleon-Licharre, 64130, France
Rating: 8

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Mauléon Castle

Pau Pyrenees Airport

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Chambres Bidegain

Don't expect extra fancy air conditioning or jacuzzis here. This used to be a 30-room Traveller's Inn in the sixties and continued service until 2007, with a single old lady trying to keep it afloat. Now, it's back in business with a young couple from Paris. They opened and service only the rooms on the back, the quiet and roomy ones, with high ceilings and local second-hand wooden furniture. This gives the whole affair a lot of authenticity and we all slept very well. Most equipment has been renewed, so no worries for the bathroom etc. Breakfast (included) was very complete and fresh, served in a small room on the ground floor. We loved the atmosphere and recommend this trip back in time.

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A great project worth supporting. A friendly stay.

The exterior of the building is ramshackle. My mother and I walked past it several times before we realized the door with the unmarked buzzer must be the Bed and Breakfast. The door was slightly ajar and we walked into an extremely dark, dismal, deserted foyer smelling strongly of mildew. A few "Bonjours" produced nothing. Finally I went out and rang the buzzer.

There was no answer on the intercom and several minutes later a man, the husband of the owner-couple, bounded down, looked surprised and said that "someone will come." About five minutes later his wife came and explained that we were early and she was busy working (fine-art painting) but would let us into our room.

We arrived at 4 p.m. Check in isn't until 5 p.m. but we hadn't noticed that (and 4 p.m. should be a perfectly acceptable check in time, really). 

The entire building is painted various shades of sad, sad gray, including what was formerly gorgeous wood wall paneling. The entire building smells strongly of mildew, dead fish and sewer gas depending on where you are. Bring a flashlight as you will absolutely need it, especially if you return to the building after dark. There are no exterior lights. The automatic lights inside are extremely weak and don't come on until you are halfway into the foyer, up the staircase, down the hall, etc.

A turfed terrace space can only be accessed by the owners on the second floor. The Astro turf on the terrace was also used for a covering of the landing on the second floor. We got a very small roll of toilet paper for our two-day stay, but since the other unoccupied rooms were wide opening (presumably to mitigate the sewer gas smell), we just took toilet paper as needed. There was no housekeeping service the second day and you never saw the owners. Our plumbing fixtures were not vented for sewer gas, but luckily our specific room (#3) did not smell.

The breakfast is held in a room on the main floor and is strange. The woman may or may not bound down from the second floor to offer to make you some coffee. Otherwise you figure out the coffee makers yourself. You have an entire uncut baguette resting on the plastic tablecloth. Everyone gets a croissant and jam. If you want orange juice or yogurt, open the fridge and get it yourself. The second morning, a Monday, the woman came rushing into the breakfast room. She was barefoot and disheveled at 9:45 a.m. I asked about yogurt and she could only offer us one as the previous day had been Sunday and other guests had been extra hungry, she said. She offered to go to the store and buy us another yogurt cup, but we said we'd share the one that was left.

When we went to pay, I knocked several times on the door on the second floor, to no response, even though I could hear noises on the other side of the door. So I went down and rang the outside intercom buzzer. The man came down after several minutes, I explain that we wanted to pay and he told us to wait. He went the opposite direction, came back later, went up to the second floor, came down and said our credit card had already been charged.

Come with low expectations and you might still be disappointed. Bring a flashlight.

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