Chateau de Germigney

Royalty without actually being a roya. Great for a Romantic surprise weekday or Weekend Getaway :) Hotel staff was extremely attentive and nice. Our room was gorgeous, the bed was amazingly comfortable and the breakfast was of high quality especially the scrambled eggs. As I travel frequently, I am able to compare breakfasts around the world but this one really hit it out of the ball park.Delicious.

Overall a pleasant stay but expectations are compared to location and price. This isn’t a cheap hotel and it is a 5-star hotel. Our room was quite nice, not corresponding to the room seen on the photos but still nice. Bed is comfortable and room is pretty and functional. The bathroom has room for improvement though. The shower is a bathtub which is very unhandy. Prefer much more a walk-in shower. The shower head can barely reach from the middle to the end of the tub where you can place it hands-free. The water has difficulties going down the drain. The screen to protect water from going everywhere is short and water will go out into the bathroom. Not convenient. There handsoap on the sink is in a lovely antique styled dispenser which however you press once and little soap comes out and then you cannot press anymore unless you manually lift it up before being able to press one more time. Unhandy! Behind the toilet there is an irontube with water inflow, that tube hasn’t been dusted for I’d say years. A thick layer of dust! Service at reception is decent. Very impersonal but it is what it is. Spa was good without being mindblowing. Will review inhouse restaurant in a separate review. What dragged the final rating under sufficient was due to the last day. Or rather evening. We had been out dining and returned at 9:30 pm. The parking was completely full. So full that we had to back out navigating narrrowly between cars. We then found a spot not very suitable for parking and went in to adk where we could park and the response we received was that the parking is full because a lot of people came to their restaurant but that we could drive out and find parking on some of the streets surrounding the place. When we asked if there was a parking section for hotel guests vs those coming for the restaurant the answer was no and that we could go down at midnight and see if we could find a spot again!!!! So a 5-star hotel where you stay 3 nights and pay not little for a room, they value the restaurant guest that is staying for a few hours more than their own guests. Very interesting concept and a very poor choice of management. This alone puts the vote to an insufficient!

We used to come to Chateau de Germigney for more than 20 years, often more than once a year. No we haven't been there for more than a year. Too much had changed in a not very positive way. And we haven’t eaten there last time because we really disliked the cooking of the then new 2 star chef while we loved to eat the great food of the longstanding former chef. Because things at the restaurant have now changed again, we wanted to give it another try. And were not to be disappointed. Francesco di Marzio knows how to cook. No wonder, having worked with Anne Sophie Pic before, another great chef. We had the four course menu and just loved every single one. Loved it so much that we really regretted that the delicious spaghetti portion was a bit on the small side. After four courses you do not feel hungry anymore it was just so good that you wanted another bite. Service was friendly, a mostly new and young crew in a rather unusual attire, if we dare say so. And we had the pleasure of meeting Francesco himself having finished our dinner, a very nice young man. We assured him that we will come back for more spaghetti. The hotel itself underwent also a few changes. The team at reception was quite different than the one we met last year. Very nice, very helpful. Not being happy about the fact that «our» usual room had no carpet anymore, strangely two different kind of drapes on the windows and had also lost the drapes of the four poster, we were offered another room that was recently refurbished. We trust that no 17 will look better when we will be there next time. And also the garden shed, not looking up to scratch and not befitting a hotel and garden like this. No turndown service anymore. Of course we can turn down a bed but after all the hotel boasts five stars now... All that said, we are happy to return again in the not too distant future. We did miss it.