Relais des Alpes — Hotel in Nice

I want to return! So to start for those looking for hotels and not used to the concept there is no reception area but there is instructions in the email how to access your hotel room.

So my best friend and I arrived to the town after a spectacular scenic drive and could not locate a reception area. The local shop keepers were very helpful and friendly and although our languages were tricky to understand we were able to sort access to the room with help from the hotel owner over phone.

The rooms are 100% beautiful and very nice and modern and cosy too! I want to return in future with my girl friend (hope to be wife). The location is magical and marvellous too! Great views any direction you go. One way you have a red colour Gorges that look like a dessert and another direction you have the snow covered French alps.

Great facilities in the room like coffee maker, a sofa, TV and lovely...

Hotel des Alpes in Guillaumes is in the centre of this small, attractive little village and there are two free car parks within 100 metres. Our second floor room has clearly been renovated and decorated recently and was very smart, with good quality bed linens, toiletries etc. It also has a large television, a kettle, coffee pod machine and, most importantly, air-conditioning. The fixtures and fittings in the en-suite shower room are also very smart.||Breakfast was a simple help yourself affair but was very good and included juice, fresh fruits, yoghurt, bread, pastries, cheese and ham. And the ritual of filling your tray then taking it out to the front patio to have breakfast while Guillaumes goes about its morning business was a rather nice way to start the day.||As previous reviewers have mentioned, the host here doesn’t speak any English, but with a bit of basic French you...

This "hotel" is situated above a cafe with the same name, but the cafe was closed when we arrived. The keybox didn't work either, so we had to call the landlady to get in. She arrived promptly, and we got our keys. Then we tried to find somewhere to eat, which wasn't easy. The place next door did not a liquor license, so our hopes of having a cold beer vanished (when we stopped by the same place a few hours he didn't have food either. All sold out he said, with a shrug). Two other places on the main street were also closed, one of them for good by the look of it. We did however find a pizza joint that served both beer and pizza, and ended up spending the better part of the evening there. Not a very fancy place, but with no options in sight it had to make do. But we will not return to Guillaumes. It's half as big as an American cemetery, and twice as dead,...