Le Grand Hotel des Bains & Spa - Bretagne

A beautiful quiet hotel in a beautiful location. Close to the sea and a pretty village. The staff are all very friendly and extremely efficient.

The building and location are simply beautiful, so is the private access to the beach / bay in front of the hotel. For a 4*-rated hotel the general condition of the hotel is, however, not up to standard. Rooms and public spaces are a bit tired, there are no interesting touches to the decoration and the service is a bit laissez-fair. All staff are very nice and charming, but I would, for example, expect drinks service at the tables by the beach, or in front of the hotel. Also the wellness space is very basic. Management would do well to invest in a sympathetic upgrade, which would be well deserved for a house and locations as special as in this hotel.

We last stayed here some 10 years ago in a third floor room at the back. It was cramped (the bathroom even more so) and despite the hotel's boast that it overlooked the church it really overlooked the hotel's industrial industrial infrastructure. It was, frankly, a bit grim. This time we went for a second floor room, at the front, with a balcony. It was an improvement but the room itself was still relatively small, but the bathroom was better. The room (good views over the bay and the hotel's grounds) had a nice comfy bed with nice comfy pillows, a small table and chair, flat-screen TV and a wardrobe with drawer space. The balcony had a very small table and two chairs and was just big enough to sit on and read (but perhaps not for long). The bathroom was fine with lovely towels and the usual facilities (and a shower over the bath). Plenty of hot water. Housekeeping is fine. The hotel is stylish and comfortable with a nice lounge/bar and plenty of soft sofas. The grounds are extensive and extend to the sea and there are loungers and chairs and tables to use when the weather permits. There's also a (very) small private beach. The restaurant (where you take breakfast) is spacious, airy and has good views over the sea. Breakfast is plentiful and varied and will accommodate most if not all tastes. Eggs (scrambled, fried and poached) are cooked to order. The restaurant is good and not overly pricey given the hotel's image. There are two EV charging points which are (gasp!) not charged for. But you need to bring your car's charging cable. The swimming pool is large with comfortable surrounds. A hamman and sauna are there to use with the usual array of beauty treatments. So far then so good. Any negatives? Well although the hamman can seat six you have to be fairly friendly with folk if you do. Five is a better fit. The sauna seats only two. The grounds could do with a bit more maintenance. Although there is ample storage space in the bedroom for a week's stay if you put your suitcase in the wardrobe (there's no other place for it) the available space is reduced. The staff are welcoming and friendly (as you'd expect) but service at meal-times can be a little disorganised. We found one male member of staff rude, ignorant and arrogant but he was an exception. The main problem was that the staff (with the odd exception) were distant and you (us) were treated as a commodity rather than a welcome and wanted visitor. (Our yardstick is the staff at the Hotel Brittany in Roscoff who are exceptionally good.) Overall then it's not a bad hotel: stylish, comfortable with a high standard of cuisine. But it suffers from being a Belle Epoch building converted to meet the demands of the 21st century (the head of our bath was in an alcove due to design constraints). The staff were fine but could be better. Would we return? Yes. But we might try a first floor front room next.

We enjoy staying at this hotel very much. It is a very comfortable place to stay, in a beautiful location. The staff are very professional and welcoming and the quality of the food is generally good. The spa and indoor pool are a real bonus.

Truly a quite delightful hotel. We have travelled quite extensively, and this hotel goes straight into our top ten. Its position is wonderful, overlooking its own beach, with walks from the gate, and yet set within the lovely small town of Loquirec. We asked for a room with sea view and terrace/veranda- a lovely room- and were delighted to find that we could enjoy the sunrise every morning. The gardens have character and provide many places for sitting and lounging and enjoying those views. The indoor pool of hotels is often set in the basement- but not this one, it looks across the gardens, and is exactly as described in the brochure. An excellent restaurant, which is quite formal but not fussy, and also the restaurant at Hotel du Port is recommended. Excellent service from everybody. We call this a “destination hotel”, it’s worth coming here just for the hotel- but of course there is so much more. The hotel has a wonderful ambience, its character is described as New England, but its soul is most definitely Proust. Highly recommended.

We had a lovely, bright comfortable room with a terrace and view of the sea, plenty of storage and a clean, modern bathroom. Bed comfortable, pillows squashy and locality quiet enough to sleep with the windows open. The area has varied and impressive coastal paths and the intrepid can learn to sail/surf/windsurf. The non-intrepid can hire electric bicycles. We liked being able to visit the pool etc without booking, and the public areas were very inviting and cosy. We felt at home. The local restaurants were all very good and friendly. We had dinner once at the hotel, and were not impressed. When my main course arrived I thought they had brought someone's little starter plate by mistake. I asked if the veg came separately but a smear of green was my spinach and three minuscule slivers of potato were concealed under a tiny sprig of decorative cress. The fish had not been cooked fresh to order as I would expect at these prices and one fillet was half the size of the other. We had cheese to follow to try to recoup some calories and the kind young man who served it gave me an extra morsel of bread, bless him. We cut our losses before dessert, as I had visions of someone elaborately bisecting a raspberry and serving it with a flourish, and went to bed hungry. We decided to see the funny side and it didn't spoil our fantastic holiday. To end on a high note, breakfast is superlative. I have never had better.