Château de Beaulieu et Magnolia Spa the Originals Relais

Charming old Chateau in beautiful grounds. The rooms are shabby chic, spotlessly clean and comfortable. The food is wonderful, taken from an extremely reasonably priced menu on a terrace overlooking the gardens. Great wine list, convivial staff. This is how French country house hotels used to be before they were swallowed up by ‘groups’. We shall be back.

We were given a musty smelling room with walls in disrepair and a window that opened onto the road and the driveway, 20 minutes from a food shop with no facilities for a hot drink nor any offer of where to get one.

If you visit Loire Castles sleep in one at a reasonable price! Park location surrounded by lots of green - elegant atmosphere and comfortable beds - big bathrooms! Restaurant tasteful and almost fit for fine dining! Absolutely recommendable!

The Chateau is a beautiful old building thats looking a little tire around the edges, but none the less an excellent place to stay. It is situated just South of Tours, but easy to get to by car, an excellent stopover for travellers going North - South through France. The grounds are extensive and lead down to a pretty little river, a great place to stay if you have your pet with you. The grounds and the main building are wonderful, as is the drinks terrace and the dining terrace, a must if you are staying for the evening meal. There are two menus options, three or four courses for 47 euros or 57 euros. The food is excellent, French fine dining, except that the main course was served just about warm enough and on cold plates, this needs attention. We throughly enjoyed our stay, a small luxury experience after a hard days driving from the South. The bedrooms in the Pavilion are fairly standard/basic but do have wi-fi, shower and bath plus air con. As travellers, we could do with some tea and coffee making provisions to start the day off with, as the formal breakfast does not always suit those who need to get back on the road early the next day. As mentioned before, the main course food was not hot enough. The tatty torn cushion on the drinks terrace needs to be sorted out.

We stayed here for one night on a long drive through France, and booked an evening meal in their dining room. The room was clean and comfortable, with air conditioning (in the Chateau) and had superb views across the gardens. The evening meal was tremendous! Highly recommended. The staff were charming and friendly, and spoke English when they realised our French was a bit basic. We will stay here again I hope

We picked this hotel due to the proximity to the city centre of Tours and the beautiful grounds and gardens. We went through many room and date changes but, Estelle, our host made everything possible to accommodate us, to have the rooms together. She kept a constant communication with us and we were so happy. Thank you Estelle, we are looking forward to meet you in person.