Auberge de Reine Margot — Restaurant in Issoire

Horrible! Needed a hotel for a couple of nights in La Tour-d'Auvergne - not a lot of choice unfortunately. The room needed renovating - holes around badly done electrics and shoddy 'decoration' work overall. The bathroom had been 'renovated' - new tap in basin and bath - pity they hadn't removed the old ones!! I dread to think what would have happened if there had been a fire in the night - nobody around to supervise evacuation. In fact some guests we spoke to had been forced to spend the night outside as the entrance door was locked after they'd been out for the evening !! Fortunately didn't have to eat there. In short -...

Horrible! Needed a hotel for a couple of nights in La Tour-d'Auvergne - not a lot of choice unfortunately. The room needed renovating - holes around badly done electrics and shoddy 'decoration' work overall. The bathroom had been 'renovated' - new tap in basin and bath - pity they hadn't removed the old ones!! I dread to think what would have happened if there had been a fire in the night - nobody around to supervise evacuation. In fact some guests we spoke to had been forced to spend the night outside as the entrance door was locked after they'd been out for the evening !! Fortunately didn't have to eat there. In short -...

If you need to stay in your comfort zone at a globalised chain hotel, this won't be for you! Our stay reminded me of our trips to France in the good old days, when hotels, especially Logis and Auberges had some individuality and local flavour, and a sort of shabby-chic authenticity. Exceptionally friendly [but not obsequious!] welcome; clean, warm rooms, with a 'quirky' mix of furniture and decoration; good food with regional specials [we had breakfasts - great coffee!and evening meals ] and very reasonable ££s. Far from luxury; but if you travel for the experience rather than for being cossetted, I heartily...