La Maison du Colombier — Restaurant in Beaune

Beautiful historic stone tower building in the centre of Beaune with a small bistro bar restaurant downstairs. There rooms/studio/apartments are accessed via a narrow tower stone staircase with a rope. Access is not by a key but with a combination code. The room has a small open plan layout with a mini kitchen bedroom up a a step and en-suite small shower and toilet. |Lovely white bedding but don’t expect it to be changed daily it is not serviced so no fresh towels and no one around to ask apart from the restaurant bar staff who some of them aren’t very helpful. One lovely slim young girl who is very helpful but the rest of them are not.|We booked dinner one evening which is a set menu with a couple of choices on starter, main course and dessert. It’s a very cosy atmosphere and tastefully decorated. Nonetheless the food was very good but simple and one of the waitresses was most unhelpful, grumpy and tried to charge us for things that we hadn’t even had. The wine list is extensive and impressive as you would expect from Beaune.|My main criticism is they only gave us 2 very small bath towels and one small hand towel for 3 nights I would expect the towels to be changed daily as I noticed clearly someone had been in during the day whilst we were out to replace the tissues in the bathroom but they didn’t make the bed or change the towels. I Asked for an extra small towel yesterday and was given another bath towel by a waiter which I noticed someone had removed today but left the dirty towels! That is very odd. The pavements outside were being cleaned by a member Of staff when we returned one afternoon. We had to endure the noise of the machine and no apology was made when we were trying to reach our apartments without slipping or getting sprayed or for the noise factor.|The apartments could be excellent if they paid more...

This is an interesting piece of property to stay in, to be sure, but we had the misfortune of staying in room 4, which is at the top of the tower. We visited three days, two nights, and had left some luggage behind in Paris. Unfortunately, we shouldn't have consolidated our luggage, which meant that one suitcase was 43 pounds and needed to be hauled up 46 winding and narrow stairs with a railing available only intermittently on one side. Our room contained a bed and two backless plastic stools. There was no comfortable place to sit. Accessing the floor safe required sitting on what looked like a dog bed. Sleeping reminded me of sleeping in a tent, since much of the room was not accessible in a fully upright position. The room is pretty noisy - both street noise and conversations between the couple in the room below us. Someone came in during day two - I'm not sure for what reason since they didn't clean. I know someone came in because they picked up one of the establishment's available robes off of the floor, replaced about one inch of watered-down dish-washing liquid in the container on the sink, turned the bath mat over to hide a dirty shoe print, and removed the L'Occitane body lotion that I thought was available for us to use. On our last day we had four hours between check-out and departing by train for Paris but could find no one to leave luggage with. On a positive note, the coffee-maker and hair dryer are great, but not reason enough for me to ever recommend this...

This is an interesting piece of property to stay in, to be sure, but we had the misfortune of staying in room 4, which is at the top of the tower. We visited three days, two nights, and had left some luggage behind in Paris. Unfortunately, we shouldn't have consolidated our luggage, which meant that one suitcase was 43 pounds and needed to be hauled up 46 winding and narrow stairs with a railing available only intermittently on one side. Our room contained a bed and two backless plastic stools. There was no comfortable place to sit. Accessing the floor safe required sitting on what looked like a dog bed. Sleeping reminded me of sleeping in a tent, since much of the room was not accessible in a fully upright position. The room is pretty noisy - both street noise and conversations between the couple in the room below us. Someone came in during day two - I'm not sure for what reason since they didn't clean. I know someone came in because they picked up one of the establishment's available robes off of the floor, replaced about one inch of watered-down dish-washing liquid in the container on the sink, turned the bath mat over to hide a dirty shoe print, and removed the L'Occitane body lotion that I thought was available for us to use. On our last day we had four hours between check-out and departing by train for Paris but could find no one to leave luggage with. On a positive note, the coffee-maker and hair dryer are great, but not reason enough for me to ever recommend this...