ibis budget Saint Malo Centre 2성

This is a basic budget hotel with helpful pleasant staff. The beds were comfy and clean, bathrooms basic, but perfectly acceptable. Short walk to restaurants and an 18 minute walk to the ferry. All in all you get what you pay for and this little hotel is fine.

On receiving our room cards for floor 3 we got into the lift it started then an almighty jolt and the lift got stuck mid floor there was four adults in the lift one of which has a heart condition we were trapped for forty five minutes with no communication from reception on our welfare. A lift engineer took 20 minutes to get to the hotel to get us out and all we got was four cartons of water no apology until I asked. This has now made me afraid to go into lifts.

I am seriously disappointed in this from booking.com total misrepresentation of the hotel it was advertised in a busy port location where parking preferably secure is important. When we arrived we were told could park where we liked in the street the hotel had no parking to offer! This has meant us emptying the car for security and having added stress at a very poor check in in a very basic hotel where we paid well above todays advertised rate to secure the booking. Not good value and completely unapologetic about offering parking that they don’t have.

A very good budget hotel close to the centre of St Malo, although parking was limited. Breakfast was very good and plentiful. The reception was very freindly and informative. The rooms were simple but not spartan.

I wasn’t expecting the Ritz, but for a budget hotel this was very basic indeed. And considering it was meant to be budget, the price was pretty steep at over €90 for the night. But St-Malo accommodation is generally very expensive, hence I ended up here. My biggest bugbear was the lack of air conditioning on what was a very hot and humid June day. I had to have the window open and the commotion from outside was incredible! The hotel is across the road from the general hospital and I was disturbed by the extraordinarily frequent blasts of ambulance sirens and deafening movements of helicopters landing and taking off! There was no forewarning about the proximity to this medical emergency facility. I didn’t rest well during my stay and will avoid booking here again.