JARDINS SECRETS ^{* * * * *}

Petit havre de paix
Une décoration soignée, personnel serviable.
Je recommande sans hésiter

Das Hotel ist eigentlich sehr schön, speziell und mit wunderbarem grünen Garten. Der Spa-Bereich kann privat gemietet werden. Auf der Tarifliste steht jedoch nicht, dass der angegebene Tarif dann pro Person berechnet wird. Wir fühlten uns schlussendlich etwas abgezockt.

Incredible hiden place in the hard of town

Camere bellissime curate nel dettaglio , tutto in sintonia con l architettura e la struttura dell epoca . Il servizio e la disponibilita' del personale ottima . Il giardino nel mezzo e la cura del dettaglio impeccabile . Uno dei migliori boutique hotel dove sono stato . Consigliato per rilassarsi . Colazione molto bene

The hotel has lots of character, is a ten to fifteen minute walk to the old town and a ten minute walk to the train station.||There is an unheated swimming pool in the grounds as well as seats in the grounds.||We stayed in The Chapel, which is on the ground floor with a garden terrace and is next door to the spa. This is a room to be avoided. When you go into the room there is a separate area with a cupboard and an image of the virgin Mary with a kneeler in front of it. Two of the light bulbs in the chandelier were broken so there was very little light in the area. However it does have a door leading to the garden, so during the day it is possible to open this and throw light into this area. This is the only area where you can open your suitcase or hang your clothes. However the cupbard with the rail is not full length so, particularly for women, there is nowhere to full hang your clothes . The cupboard also smelt slightly damp. The floor is flagstones, which were very cold.||From this side chapel, you move into the bedroom. This has a double bed that virtually reaches to the patio doors that lead to the garden terrace. You need to be pretty slim to walk around the bed with the garden doors shut. Again the floor is flag stones which were very cold for the entirety of our stay.||The bed was very soft and dipped in the middle. When we first got into it felt very cold and slightly damp, as if it hadn't been used for some time. The pillows have embroidered on them Luxury Hotel. Any hotel that needs to keep reminding you that it is a 'luxury hotel', probably isn't (as this wasn't).||In the bedroom there wasn't anywhere to put or hang your clothes.||There wasn't a room fridge and the safe was small and not secured, so a thief would have had no problem simply picking it up and taking it away. In the bedroom there was a solitary small bottle of water, which was 10 Euros if you consumed it. ||The bathroom was very basic. A shower with two taps so you had to mix the water each time before you got into it. The two shower doors did not meet so there was a gap in between. There was no where either here or in the bedroom to hang or dry your towels. There is a large armoire where slippers, dressing gowns and towels can be found. The towels did not feel dry when we took them out from there. There is no shaver point/tooth brush charging point in the bathroom (or in the bedroom). The floor was again very cold flagstones. There was also no space to put your things - make up, deodrant, etc in the bathroom.||The bedroom was cold at night and there was no means to heat it. There is a large air-conditioning unit, but only for making the room colder.||At night we could hear the trains running.||It was nice to have the garden terrace, however on the second day a large car parked outside, people got out and could clearly see straight into our room. The car was parked there for the remainder of our stay.||It isn't possible to book a rate including breakfast. It is worth noting the continental breakfast is available at 28 Euros per person, however you need to decide the night before if you require it. The first night when I was unsure whether we wanted it and wanted to check with my wife, a member of staff escorted me to wife to get a decision. The evening of our second night we received a call after 10pm to ask whether we were going to have breakfast. Fotunately we hadn't gone to sleep by then. We didn't breakfast at the hotel and there are plenty of places in the old town that serve a good breakfast at a reasonable rate.||When you leave the hotel, you need to press the buzzer on the hotel gate to be let back in. The reception will then remotely unlock the gate. All the keys are laid on a chair next to reception, which is often unmanned. On one occasion I was handed the wrong key and only realised when I got to my room. On another there wasn't anyone at reception, so I picked my key up from the chair, obviously have the choice of practically every room's/suites's keys. This did not make me feel very secure about who had access to my room.||Overall we would have liked to have checked out after the first night, but knew we would be liable for the second night so we ended up staying. On neither night did we have a good night's sleep.||The Jardins Secrets is a quirky hotel, with a lot of bracante on display, much of it for sale. We may have been unlucky with the room that we were allocated, but by all means stay there, just recognise some of the issues with it.