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If you are visiting Pont-a-Mousson you really should stay here.||||We have visited the Abbaye many times over the last 10 years, mostly with our Motorcycle touring group but also with friends and family. The actual buildings are stunning having been completely re-built and the hotel and staff are excellent, friendly, welcoming and professional and unlike some hotels they have continued to improve.||||The rooms are spacious, clean and comfortable with good quality linen on comfortable beds, the bathrooms are well set out with a decent shower.||||Breakfast is good quality and a good choice.||||Location is excellent with several good restaurants nearby and the main town a short walk away, it's a good base to explore this region with interesting places to visit nearby.||||Overall I have no hesitation in recommending the Abbay de Premontres

Dormir dans une abbaye pour le prix d un ibis est une expérience.|Le cadre est forcément impressionnant.|Niveau qualité de l hôtel, les points forts sont le calme, la taille des chambres, la literie, et les points en retrait sont le bruit du frigo, la salle de bain fonctionnelle mais sans charme.|Concernant le petit déjeuner, le cadre mériterait une qualité des produits plus élevée.|Je recommande ce lieu sans hésiter.

The place is old. And degraded. Which is quite ironic. Because it is quite new. It seems that it was destroyed during the Second World War, and reconstructed later. But it is not nicely kept. The windows are dirty.

There is a slight touch of medieval, with the monks living in the big house, and the caravans of the travellers installed outside, at a good distance.

The people are nice, nothing to argue about it. But the rest is weird. The rooms are not that big. And not that cheap. In a coleague's room the handle of the toilet door was broken and I was left with the handle in my hand. And all levers that open the windows make a terrible noise because nobody cares to grease them and maintain the place.

The room was a bit cold. And the fancy thermostat was ready to change temperatures at will and with zero effect. Later I have noticed there was a triangle with an exclamation mark on the display, probably wanting to tell me there is no point in playing with it.

The fast less fancy thermostat in the shower room was not even powering up. The water was warm, thank you.

The toilet was also strange. Both in my case and in the case of my friend, the toilet had only two rolls of paper. There is a 24h reception desk so I guess one could call for toilet paper, yet in the case of my friend's room the phone was dead, so one would have to dress up to get the toilet paper.

Even more interesting, in both toilets the toilet paper was used up. I guess the hotel has a contract with the sole toilet paper factory that delivers partly used toilet paper rolls, or else I simply can't explain why in two toilets there was not a single new, unused roll.

Also, be careful, as the place is quite large and it can mean a lot of walking, which if you have luggage can be unpleasant. The platform next to the elevator was very degraded. It looked older than the place. And very dirty. So I think you should take your luggage with you. Also, it seems that the strange and rather dirty elevator only goes from the double zero floor (funny numbering) through the zero floor, to the first floor. To reach the second floor one needs to take the large spiral staircase. I was lucky to travel light.

In the room there is a small electric kettle to heat up the water. And some cheap tea / coffee, everything counted, just radiating petty and cheap. There is no safe in the room. There is no minibar in the room. Or anything to keep something cold. There is barely enough storage space for a person during an overnight stay, when the room is sold with two beds.

The hotel parking is 10e/night, even if the printed paper in the room specifies it is 8e/night. I guess the paper is from another era as well. There is some parking right in front of the only entrance, but each evening it was full, so I had to seek out a parking spot in the nearby streets, and I felt so bad for taking the parking spots of those houses.

So despite the nice people, the experience was bad. Not very bad. Just plain bad. And the whole experience left a bitter taste of exploitation. All those people who went hungry so the monks would have a big, impressive home to crush the spirit of those who visited their church. Than the place was bombed. Than more people had to give up their wealth so this ugly, souless place be built again, and left to degrade.

If it wasn't for the depressing story of cold and poverty, I would have given two stars.

war alles in ordnung, aus dieser location könnte man mehr flair rausholen. ist ein wenig nüchtern und unpersönlich.

Hébergement de grande qualité : chambre et salle de bains (avec 2 lavabos et douche) spacieuses, très bien équipées, très propres, très agréables. Excellente literie. Belle vue sur le cloître et le jardin et parking gratuit tout proche. Personnel attentionné et efficace.