We spent three nights here and I was disappointed to say the least. We’d booked ahead and explained my special diet. They had already said they did not provide gluten-free bread-despite the fact that there was another guest for the first 2 nights who was also gluten-free and the patron remarked how common it was/is these days. No soya products were provided despite me asking for yoghurts for breakfast. So, I ate what I had brought with me myself, what I could pick out of a very uninspiring fruit salad and an apple compote.
The cuisine at dinner purports to be gastronomy. It isn’t. It was not just on my diet that things were tasteless. The chef seems to have an aversion to garlic or onions and apart from the jellied chicken terrine on the first night which was salty, the rest needed a good dose of seasoning (and we usually think things are overly salted). There was no thought to what a meal might taste like without the proposed sauce, no drizzle of oil on a salmon fillet with dry rice and dry beans and courgettes. The chef even managed to make a roast thigh and drumstick of chicken dry. Desert was non-existent. I was offered an apple or a sorbet!
The room we had over-looked the parking. The first two days it was very warm. We tried to sleep with the window open on the first night but there was constant traffic noise. The second night it rained and the drumming on the leaves of the tree outside our window drowned the road out. The third day was colder and wet…but even with the window closed the road noise was bad.
The room itself was smallish and was clearly the height of modernity in 1980-now it’s just tired and shabby. There were screw holes in a headboard where lights have been replaced; a notice on how to use the phone, except there isn’t one, one socket for the TV and one for everything else (2 laptops, an electric toothbrush and a phone charger), and only 1 extra pillow. The bathroom is tiny with nowhere to hang the shower attachment and a shower curtain which smacks of grubbiness even if clean. There is no extractor fan in the bathroom so no ventilation which makes it smell of years of dampness and as soon as the bedroom window is closed the whole room becomes oppressive and stale smelling. Both the room and particularly the bathroom are in serious need of updating and modernising.
On the plus side, the staff are friendly enough. You can buy a bottle of wine and if you fail to finish it they keep it for you for the next day. There are some organic sorbets on the menu, of which the strawberry is delicious. The terrine of lapereau en gelee is delicious. The wifi is good with codes that last your entire stay so no need to keep bothering reception for new codes each day. The double bed consisted of 2 single mattresses meaning you disturb each other less and they have moved away from traditional blankets and gone with duvets which I personally prefer.
NB this hotel is in the village of Villie-Morgan not Corcelles as indicated on Trip Advisor.