Hôtel - Restaurant L'évidence

Decent price/quality ratio. Comfortable with a weird mix of classic and modern in feel. Don't expect much from the staff other than check-in and check-out, especially if your French is terrible. Location: About a 3 minute walk down the road from the train station. The station has very infrequent service (trains every 2+ hours). Domremy and Fort de Bourlemont are each about 10 km away by car (2+ hours by foot). Hotel: Check-in was relatively easy at 2:30 p.m. Trying to get other help from the staff in English was time-consuming and ultimately fruitless. There's a nice bar + terrace with newspapers and magazines for perusal (although some ridiculously unruly kid was walking over tables and booths when I was there and the staff (singular) didn't seem to care). There's a gate with code for entry late at night (requiring use of a stairwell). Filling breakfast with a selection of cold foods (nothing hot other than coffee beverages), but with lots of flies for some reason. Room: The room was quaint and comfortable. Feels old, but with amenities of being new. The toilet separate from the washroom was an interesting historical curiosity. Neat, although sometimes unreliable, punchcard key system for accessing the room. The Good: Super comfortable bed. Okay-ish WiFi. Quiet (other than around cleaning time). Bottles of water. Air-conditioned. The Bad: No real complaints about the room itself. The Weird: Separate toilet chamber. Wood floors contribute to that old-time feel.