Hôtel les Calanques

Loved our stay here. We were in the Mimosa room with a sea view in this little boutique hotel. We loved it - I wouldn't think twice about staying here again. It was nice and quiet - couldn't hear traffic, neighbours, etc. We were comfortable and slept really well. The bedroom and bathroom were lovely and clean. We could adjust the heating to our liking. We had breakfast every morning - cereals, fruit juices, variety of breads, pain au chocolat, ham, cheese, butter, jams, and chocolate cake - Mr Franck, the host, made a delicious lemon cake on the last day of our stay and it was still warm as he had made it that morning. We needed assistance organising a trip and Mr Franck contacted the taxi firm for us & really helped us out. Again - we loved it.

Great hosts!

Called to make a reservation which seemed in order after speaking to the manager. All seemed fine until, just be sure, I sent an email confirming some details after which I got reply from the manager that the room was guaranteed unless I would email him my credit card number, exp date and 3 digit confirmation code on email. It is very strange to require the 3 digit code. Hotels never ask for this, banks warn never to provide it to 3rd parties and email is not encrypted. "Lavender" room had an extremely strong toilet refresher smell. After reporting this to the manager he said that they sprayed the room with parfum (why, and why one that smells of cheap toilet refresher?!). But after airing the room for an hour which got rid of most of the smell, it turned out that the cheap toilet refresher smell actually came blasting from the airconditioning unit (did he climb into the airco unit to spray parfum LOL?) As if something had been placed into the airco to masque another smell or something. The manager offered to have someone look at the airco in 2 days. Either way it was a horrendously strong smell of cheap toilet refresher blasting from the airco filling the entire room irritating our lungs so we turned it off and opened the windows, trying to sleep in a 28 degrees celsius room which was as you can imagine pretty awful. The next morning we had the breakfast. A very basic selection of some muesli, bread, ham, etc and no eggs for 48 euro for 2 adults and 2 children. After expressing my dissappointment about the whole experience the manager half heartedly offered to charge 36 euro for 4 cups of cornflakes and a coffee. We understand set backs happen but adding it all up this was a somewhat weird and disappointing experience.