Hotel Mercure Saint Nectaire

Don't be fooled by the pictures of the pool this is the rear of the hotel. The road side faces a long time derelict possibly an hotel. The approach from the car park to the entrance of the hotel is along a fairly busy road, the ground floor windows are obviously never cleaned, dirty and covered in cobwebs. Our room was roadside facing the derelict building. With the windows open the noise from passing trucks was horrendous, with them shut the room was stuffy. No air conditioning. We asked to have dinner on our first night the menu had about 5 entrees and 5 main my wife asked for the tomato salad but was told there were no tomatoes, in France in August? She then asked for the truite again no truite, I ordered a bottle of red and they brought a bottle of rosé. We didn't eat there again . Two minutes away a fantastic restaurant Les Baladins but you need to reserve. Possibly the worst hotel we have ever stayed in.bad .

Stayed one night here and that was enough. This was an overnight stop to break up a long drive. We checked in just around dinner time, the check-in staff was very impersonal, key and room number and sent us on our way, very uninformative about the hotel and area. We put our bags in our room and then went to the hotel restaurant to have dinner at the hotel restaurant. We were greeted by a hostess who asked us if we had a reservation. We had not reserved but the restaurant well into dinner time was only a fraction full. We were turned away, no service without a reservation, the hostess, a very unpleasant young girl just walked away huffing that the front staff should have informed us of the restaurant policy. So here we are in a small town, with no idea how to get dinner, no suggestions or help from the hotel. Fortunately, we were able to find one restaurant in the town just down the street from the hotel that was open. The local restaurant was very busy but we were able to get a table and endure a meal in a much nicer environment than the sad restaurant at the hotel (so in the end we were lucky that eating at the hotel wasn't possible. The room at the hotel was simple but clean enough. No air conditioning which was not great. Hotel breakfast was at the restaurant that had turned us away the night before, the breakfast was very unappetizing (we again felt lucky having not been served the previous night). We had initially planned to spend the morning at the hotel to go to the spa and relax but in the end decided to check out early and just cut our loses. We would not recommend this hotel to anyone looking for anything more than a basic roof over their heads. This hotel was well over priced for the service and what they offer. Well below any Mercure hotel I have stayed in the past.