Compass63553942550
July 19, 2021
If you have been fooled by a birds-eye view of the hotel with a swimming pool and a tennis court by the sea like us, you need to stop just there to prevent the biggest disappointment of your holidays. Unless you want to strengthen your sense of humour and come to realise that "well at least for the next decade, we'll have a benchmark for the worst hotel we have ever stayed in". In fact, if the Eagles had to write a revamped version of Hotel California, they could call it "Le 83 hotel". So "last thing I remember, I was running for the door" and the director made us pay the extortionate €220 for the second night we decided to cancel when we realised their standard would not even meet the one of a truck driver motel in a middle of a long deserted highway. At the entrance the dying fountain and concrete wall from the 70s we're enough to make us realise we checked in to depression land; only when we entered the room with failing curtains, old school carpets and barely functioning bathroom we decided to cancel this hotel on the spot. Given it was late, we had to suffer the night of hearing the traffic from the road next door which luckily kept us awake to look for our next hotel as soon as possible. Yes I know, I should have read the reviews, and hence this one ! Now that said the receptionist were nice, and the staff tried very hard to make us feel welcome. But here is the reality of the Cote d'Azur: to get paradise you need to pay the price, otherwise you'll end up in an overly expensive disenchantment.