Campanile Honfleur La Riviere Saint Sauveur, Honfleur

Advantages: Excellent food, service and atmosphere
Disadvantages: No outdoor seating; upstairs toilets

...Before visiting Honfleur, Normandy, for the day I looked at the Ciao France website to see if there were any reviews of restaurants in the town. All I found, however, was a piece of advice that recommended avoiding the restaurants on the waterfront, which it described as 'tourist traps', and seeking out a restaurant in one of the side streets. My 'Rough Guide to France' was too heavy to take along, so I copied out the names and addresses of one or two restaurants that it listed. Unsurprisingly for a fishing port, they all seemed to specialise in seafood. We spent about an hour and a half wandering around Honfleur and were amazed at the number of restaurants there are; you are certainly spoilt for choice, and if a bucket of mussels floats your boat you are in for a treat. We stopped and looked at one or two menus, including that of La... Read review

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Advantages: Clean, Tidy, Friendly Staff
Disadvantages: Rooms could be bigger.

...Campanile as it is part of the same group of companies. We complained to the manager of the Premiere Classe hotel and insisted on being given a room in the Campanile as it was right next door. I'm sorry to say that I am one of those tourists who never really tries too hard to pick up the local language but I studied French for my GCSE's, albeit many years ago, and so was disappointed to learn that the staff at this hotel did not speak English. I guess disappointed is the wrong word but in lieu of a better one, it stays. The lady at the front desk could not speak a word of English but was very very helpful and friendly. My limited French did not really aid the situation but she knew that one of the guests was English and spoke fluent French and so asked him to help. She resolved the problem very quickly and gave us a room for the duration... Read review

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Advantages: Location and price
Disadvantages: Buffet was disappointing in the restaurant

...For our summer holiday in the Dordogne I had decided to break up the eight and a half hour drive from Calais to Sarlat with an over night stop on both legs of the journey so it seemed sensible to opt for a location roughly four hours from Calais and also one that meant we would have negotiated Paris on the first day as that looked like being the most difficult part of the drive. Orleans seemed to be just right and as in previous trips we had used the Campanile chain and found them to be satisfactory off I went to check out their website. Booking was very easy via the site, once you input some basic search criteria such as arrival and departure dates, occupancy levels and preferred location the search engine provides a list of those available, for Orleans I had a choice of four hotels in all and opted for the one in La Chapelle St... Read review

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