Reviews
Jamie Dunford Wood:
The name of the hotel includes the subtitle 'boutique hotel', although in truth
it's a marketing ploy - this is not really a boutique hotel as is commonly
understood, but very much a chain. The brand is the Spanish company Melia, and
the look is clean luxury corporate with local twist - in this case the twist
being the Belle Epoque reception area scattered with good repro antiques, the
wood paneling in the rooms, and the general library air of sophistication
running through the whole hotel (there's a cosy Parisian library bar of dark
wood and deep sofas on the ground floor, rather lacking in activity when we were
there.)
Being very much a commercial
enterprise where productivity is all, the rooms are squeezed in either side of
narrow corridors, with some compromise in room size. Of the 83 rooms, a sizeable
proportion are small, and these tend to be given to agency clients who pay bulk
rates, so if you book individually, don't be fobbed off with them. As a chain ,
all the rooms are consistent in decor - striped walls in pale yellows, red
carpets, good repro furnishings and copies of 18thc engravings on the walls.
Characterless but slick, but since it only opened at the beginning of 2001, some
wear and tear may cosy it up a bit. All double rooms are of the same standard,
with a single rate.
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Durant
& Cheryl Imboden's 
