Hôtel Le Prieuré

This is really a restaurant with rooms, this is quite a common feature in France especially close to the Motorway system. The idea being you break your journey from south to north or vice a versa, stop have a good meal with wine and after the meal there is a bedroom. We arrived just as the lunch service was being checked out a little early but we had made good progress on the motorway. A cursory here is your room key was followed by did you get my email, no, Oh the restaurant is closed tonight. I then checked my emails to see if there was one I had missed, no no email, I queried this with the hotel, who then blamed Hotels.com. I then asked was there anywhere which served food tonight! Thankfully the local Cafe in the town Centre served food and were very welcoming. Food was not the Haute cuisine we had hoped for but it was warm and wholesome. Back to bed for an early night as there was no service available. I know that the French do not have a high idea about the bathroom but this beats our all time record for bad design and compactness. I admit to being a large chap, but you had to be a contortionist to use the shower or the lavatory. The bathroom was shoe horned in to the minimum amount of space, yet you could have had a party in the unnecessary hanging space. Undaunted we headed for breakfast where we were pointed in to the breakfast room and left to our own devices. No contact at all. On check out the most junior person served us to get our money and we went.