Greet Hotel Castets Coeur des Landes

We spent the night here on our way from Belgium to the Algarve. Nicely situated along the A63 close to the exit with a restaurant and even Mc Donald's across the street. Free parking (closed at night). Check-in at the bar was quick as the hotel was near-empty. Welcome drink as an elite member was a choice of smoothies. Small room but with separate bed for our son. Not many and recycled (brand signature) furniture. Bathroom was also small but modern with shower and soap/shampoo/conditioner dispenser. Separate toilet. Breakfast was basic, but OK. All by all, a nice transit hotel...

Newly built Hotel. Perfect position for an overnight stop between south of Valencia and Cherbourg. 8 hours to each. Clean, comfortable bed, good size TV, nice shower and bathroom. Aircon that works. Very quiet though less than 5 mins to the A63 motorway. Easy off-road parking outside the hotel. Castets itself only has 5 or 6 restaurants, which we found had limited menus and also quite pricey. However there is a Steak House within 300 metres, a MacDonalds, not so good for vegetarians and pescatarians, and Le Relais de Castets, which is a Les Routiers restaurant, uniquely French, Google them if you don't know about them, costs around 13€, and is walkable from the hotel, maybe 300 metres.

Great budget stay, funky rooms and hotel- looks new. Please note, there is no bowling alley- the English states bowling alley but it is Boules. Friendly staff, car park, clean and fun. We had a great stay as a stopover for our road trip. Very Happy- especially as we could have a room with our 3 children with us.

The good thing about this hotel is that it is new and next to the autoroute without too much noise. The staff tried to be friendly but could not make up for these defects: - no Wifi even though the corporate info offers it. Really annoying of you are en route back home and have used up your data bundle. - no Amex even though Accor offer it (and we used it to guarantee the reservation !). They claim they could not set it it up yet (since opening in April!) but I have my own business and it took me a few days to set it up. - expensive: it cost 175plus euros for one night for a room for 3 which is exactly double of what we were charged in a higher category Ibis Styles that same month - air conditioning is centrally controlled and you have to ask them to turn it on but nobody tells you that so you first spend ages trying to switch it on (and then they unilaterally turn it off at 3 or 4 in the morning!) - when we asked for some chips or peanuts or olives or other bubbly bits with the bar drinks they said they had nothing -- even if we were willing to pay for it (at breakfast the next morning we saw they had various types of cheese which they could have cut into cubes but their customer orientation didn't stretch that far...) By the way there is 10% discount in the Tshanka restaurant next door for guests because it belongs to the same owner as the hotel.