Brit Hotel Restaurant Bar Kara — Restaurant in Lorient

We stumbled on this hotel when we were travelling through Brittany. We only planned to stay for two nights and ended up staying five. ||||The staff of the hotel is very friendly but not to the point where they hover. They really responded to our attitude, which I think was very pleasant. Gives you as a guest the choice of staying anonymous or being talkative. ||When we arrived we were told that they only had a small room available, and the staff wouldn't let us rent it before we saw it and made up our minds which is a very nice thing to do. ||After two days the owner showed us a larger room that became vacant. The smaller rooms are ok for what you pay. The larger rooms are so worth it.||I wouldn't recommend the smaller rooms if larger is available. Apart from a rather small bathroom (shower, toilet and bathroomsink on about two square meters) and a small main room they are a bit more noisy. The larger rooms have separate toilet, very decent bathroom and spacious mainroom. The price difference is so worth it.||||The rooms are very clean, and the beds have very decent matresses, even for people with back-problems like me. ||Free WiFi is available, and even the small room had a small desk to park the laptop on.||||Nice detail : the hotel has free private parking that locks up at night (no worries, you get a key) keeping your vehicle safe.||||Breakfast is a bit basic, but the charge is less than you normally find. The restaurant however is something else. We really didn't plan to eat in the hotel. We ended up eating there every night, for the kitchen is that good and still very reasonably priced. The chef's meat dishes are well above average, and he is a wizard with fish. To make things better, they were very accomodating to the misses, who is lactose intolerant and has a gluten-allergy. After the initial visit the chef would just propose a different meat or fish dish for her.||Last but not least : the restaurant offers a very nice winelist. Nothing posh or fancy, but very good yet very affordable wines. ||||The only 'issue' I can come up with? Would be the location. You need transportation if you want to stay there. The village is nice, but not much to do other that St Anne's Sanctuary and park, and the hotel doesn't really have a place to hang out but your room. Also, there is no animation so you are left to your own devices. Of course, for DINKS like us that like peace and quiet, this is actually an upside. ||If you do have your own transportation, the village is located centrally in a touristic area, ten to thirty minutes drive by car from a lot of sights that are worth seeing.||||We...

Needing a proper hotel for three nights having duvets on two separate beds, free Wifi and enclosed private parking, we booked this hotel, knowing it had no airco, not yet a problem in May, we though, rightly. We liked it only having 27 rooms. |On arrival the amiable proprietor welcomed us, and in proper English explained all about breakfast times, the restaurant, the need to lock the door behind us with the key when leaving the room, how to enter after closing time (the room key also opened the small door in the front gate, and the hotel’s side door for access to the hotel proper), after closing time the car had to be parked on the curbside outside though. The room was spotlessly clean, with separate bath/shower and toilet, quite unusual for a two star hotel, quite easily accessible by elevator and a broad stairway. Comfortable beds with duvets, we both slept very well indeed. Although both busy from breakfast til late in the evening, both proprietors man and wife were always very friendly, so attentive, and helpful. |Saw that they also had rooms for three, four and family rooms for five persons, at very reasonable prices (at around €100 per room per night).|Great hotel, recommended, maybe less so during the height of the summer due to the lack of...

While we have not stayed at La Croix Blanche, we certainly enjoyed lunch in their restaurant on a recent rainy and chilly Tuesday. The luncheon menu du jour, for E23-, offered three courses with several choices for each, and the usual range of other items available for small supplements. A queue-de-beouf terrine, with vegetables, was light and tasty; my wife's lamb chops (small supplement) and my lamb tajine (from the menu itself) were satisfying too. Desserts and coffee rounded out a very good, and well-presented, lunch. Wine prices (it was a stormy, indoor sort of day, so why not?) were rather low, in fact, and our Rose de Loire worked quite well with the lamb. The cooking was on the simpler side, something we welcomed after several gastronomique experiences -- but it was quite skillfully done. ||||The hotel itself -- at least, the restaurant and public spaces that I saw -- was clean, up-to-date, and in some areas very recently renovated -- the toilets looked as though they had been freshly remodeled last week or so. Service, during a very quiet (three covers, including us) lunchtime, was friendly and well-coordinated. In all, the Croix Blanche offered a good way to get in out of the wet and chill for a very well-prepared mid-day meal, all at a quite...