Hôtel Aux Lys de Chablis Domaine Defaix — Hotel in Auxerre

Given the price is near that of a room at Les Clos, you might think that this hotel is, say, 2 star. We stayed here because everywhere else was full. Yet this was empty........||||It is, in fact, minus several stars.||||Another reviewer has mentioned the interior colour scheme - when you add the super cheap laminate flooring and the room "furniture" consisting of fixed, plastic veneered chipboard - this is a cheap student hostel. With showers that don't work.||||The advantage of the cheap laminate floor is that it squeaks appallingly if trodden on. If you are Jason Bourne, this will ensure that you won't get assassinated in the middle of the night. For everyone else, it merely means you won't sleep, if one of your neighbours decides to walk in the corridor.||||The shower didn't work in 2 separate rooms. Apparently this was because we didn't hit the button to change from tap to shower (yes, a bath with a mixer tap and a shower on a hose) hard enough. I tried everything, but no luck. I presume the problem was the lack of water pressure. Or maybe I lack the abilities of Jason Bourne....The amount of rust in the water was interesting.||||The rooms are warm, and overlook the car park in the local industrial estate. If you open the window, you get serenades from other guests returning to the hotel.... And sadly they are not the Three Tenors... ||||Externally, the "hotel" is set in a car park in an industrial estate. It looks like a cheap, badly built building. Which it is....||||My advice is to purchase purchase a magnum of the Chabils Premier Cru Les Lys 2002, drink it, then wander round in public until the gentlemen of the Gendarmerie give you free accommodation for the night. This will cost less and you will sleep better. Probably their showers work as well. ||||Alternatively, pitch a one man tent by the pumps at the petrol station up the road. Which seems to have a petrol leak (by the smell). I am not quite sure of the year (of the petrol), but I do not think it is a Grand Cru.||||All in all, an appalling waste of money. The town council should have it closed, demolished and the site converted to...

I had not booked ahead as I was not sure where I'd get to in my ramblings. A room for single occupancy was 69 euros plus 10 euros for breakfast which met my thin budget. The hotel is in the area on the outskirts of the town dedicated to supermarkets etc. There is plenty of free parking secured at night by a barrier. The first impression is that external maintenance has not been a priority though not yet a disaster. I was booked in without fuss and had a room down a ground floor corridor. The colour schemes have to be seen to be believed; lime green walls for the dining area and the bedroom doors a vivid and arresting bright green. The bedroom was standard size furnished with plastic covered plywood furniture. It was all entirely functional and the mattress was good. The heating was working too well and stayed on overnight requiring my window to be left ajar. The bathroom was entirely adequate and the shower jet could if adjusted too much have been useful in the police force as a water cannon. The wifi was not the easiest to connect to but it worked well enough to get my e-mails. Breakfast was made a little brighter by an array of homemade jams. ||Overall, though the hotel is tired and the decor is not from "Good Housekeeping" it delivered a standard bed and breakfast at a reasonable price. I slept well. It has absolutely no ambience or cosy atmosphere. Absolutely fine for a...

Probably the worst hotel I have ever stayed at. And that takes some beating. Where do I start; when this place was built every expense was spared. The one plug socket in the entire room. The noisy lacquered flooring in the corridors that makes everyone squelch past. The totally non soundproof rooms. The inadequate water pressure so the showers don't work. ||||I just don'y know what Defaix, the owner, is thinking of. I have met him in the past and he is a nice enough guy. He builds his wine brand on quality and to be fair I like his wines. He has a restaurant in town that is OK. Then this hotel, that I suspect started as a concept of somewhere to put up wine buyers FOC in the busy season is not fit for paying guests.||||The joke is that you can stay in Les Clos for very little more and get a whole lot more like service, atmosphere and yes sleep. And that is why we left Les Lys and went...