great location and view running on the beach was really nice spa being inside the hotel was also a great plus nice spa professional staff only caveat: bed was too soft

This hotel has a great location for beach pleasure, hiking and biking. You are at the seafront and in the pine woods. By bike the nearest town is 20 minutes away. The hotel has good quality food and service. There is also an indoor swimming pool and spa.

Position is excellent. Staff and food very good. The room is very small and cramped, a settee is installed obviously to accommodate a further two peopl..This means that the bed is crammed up against the shower room wall leaving approximately six inches in which to swing your legs to the floor. Not good at all for elderly and arthritic guests. The balcony is tiny and the so called 'sun loungers' are actually deck chairs! Again, totally unsuitable for elderly or infirm guests, of which there were many. This sort of cheapskating turns what could have been a superb experience into a disappointing stay.

From the moment of arriving i was made to feel like an important guest and given all opportunities to upgrade If I wanted to as well as information about the hotel. My standard room was comfortable and spacious inside and outside had a small patio area with table and chairs. The restaurant in the evening was well paced and offered a god selection on the menu and not "just" the novotel menu you get nationally - it was great to enjoy the wine of the Island as well. Breakfast was well laid out and enjoyed at a leisurely pace It was superb to only walk 20 metres from the Terrace and be on the beach This hotel served me well and when I had to leave I was totally relaxed, and ready to go onwards on my motorcycle tour

Three years since we last visited and still really love this place. Great location right on the beach and dining area outside really works well. Choice and quality of food has improved. Could do with a bit more variety for the kids menu. Etienne is a great host and works really hard for all the guests albeit later evening service can be a bit hit & miss. Altogether we all very much enjoyed it.

Kind reception, good paysage and environce, taste diner, clean room. belle vue avec petit dejourner, belle beach acces private and swimmingpool no more words i want to recommand this hotel all of my friends

We are a family of 4 - 2 children 7 and 5 - and spent one week in July 2015 in this hotel and we were very pleased. The staff are generally very kind, the restaurant is very good, the service also to standards. The only things I would say are 1) for a family like ours the room was quite small (a double bed and a sofa bed) with hardly any space to walk when the sofa bed was opened and 2) the hotel definitely needs a pool for kids! the pool is rather for adults and those that go to this hotel for the thalasso treatments in particular. In any case, my girls had a blast and we enjoyed our stay at the Ile d'Oleron and Saint Trojan des Bains.

We really enjoyed our stay at the Novotel. Despite the weather, we enjoyed the indoor pool. The next sunny day, we walked on the beach, it was so great and peaceful. The staff was always very responsive and smiling. We took the room with the sea view: so worth it but next time I will ask to get a top-floor view. As the room was close to the restaurant, I wonder what would be my rating should guests have used the outside tables (in my opinion the tables outside are way too close to the rooms).

Set in a beautiful location on the beachfront in a fairly isolated position but a short drive to St Trojan town, this is a lovely hotel. Facilities include a fitness room. 25 metre seawater swimming pool both with views over the beach. Nice continental breakfast with the usual Novotel variety. Cooked breakfast ok with scambled egg, sausage and bacon but not as good as many other Novotels. Very clean and comfortable room with good free WIFI provided. Overall, highly recommended.

The hotel is in a beautiful location, right on the beach. Our room was clean and comfortable and we paid the bit extra for a sea-view which was well worth it. The a la cart menu has improved since previous stays with much more variety which is very welcome. But, and it is a big but, on the Tuesday night there was a "buffet" and we were told that we could not order from the a la cart menu and our only alternative to the buffet was the 24/7 menu which, whilst adequate for a lunch perhaps, did not offer the type of dining experience one would hope for in this level of hotel. We have eaten much better and more cheaply at Ibis hotels. The service was perfunctory bordering on rude. On returning to our room we noticed that the room-service menu had a reasonable choice, including steak, and wonder why this was not on offer in the restaurant. Altogether, very disappointing.