78 Reviews
Balthazar Hotel and Spa Rennes - MGallery
Rennes City Center Rennes|0.56km from Cathedral Saint-Pierre de Rennes
Location – perfect – right on a side street (Rue Vasselot and Rue Marshall Joffe) for easy access and the pedestrian area adjacent to the medieval city center areas. Very easy walk to everything. Quiet because two sides are non-street facing. Hotel – this is a very nice, upscale hotel with a “trying too hard but missing” décor style. The strengths are the location and the staff, who are consistently professional, polite, helpful, and personable. Parking is valet only at E 25/day. Breakfast is E 25 per person. Rooms – I found this a very difficult room situation. We booked the nicest, largest suite in the hotel on the top floor yet it was extremely frustrating to stay in for several days because everything (layout, décor, lighting, furniture) focused on “look” (perhaps?) over function and ease of use. I would not stay in this room again. Layout, Décor, & Furniture – the space was not well used. The entry was a short hallway with a half wall on the other side of which was the bedroom. The hallway space was not large enough to put a suitcase. A positive was the built-in closets with hanging space, shelves, and drawers – this was incredibly useful and helpful, although the lighting was dim. The room was extremely cluttered with mismatched furniture and very little available floorspace. At the end of the little half hallway was a very strange loveseat sized couch which had a very low seat and a strange tree stump “table” which was uneven and thus could not be used as a table. This little couch was not in sight of a window or the TV so was not useful for anything other than putting on your shoes. The bed was similarly low to the floor, so it was hard to sit on it. There was a round table and one chair, and floor lamps that had a tripod of legs which stuck out into the floor ready for you to trip on. We moved these as close as possible to the wall to try to get some space. There are no luggage racks so we asked for them; thankfully we got two and had to maneuver a way to place them so we could access the suitcase. There were way too many little knickknacks on the little available surface space; we moved them to get some space. Positives are the refrigerator and all the built-in shelving. The carpet was extremely well worn and very dark gray, making the room look even smaller than it is. The walls were also very dark gray and the lighting was extremely dim so the room was very dark and depressing to be in. Lamps were mismatched, eclectic, and dim. There was a very large deck (positive) that was incredibly cluttered with very heavy (could not move them) wood furniture and planters (negative) so it was very difficult to use the deck other than to sit in the chairs where they are. That said, having the deck was wonderful to be out in the light with extensive views over the east side of the city. The bathroom was more brightly lit, with good walk in shower water pressure and good towels. However, water floods the floor. There is 
