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4 out of 5
Fontevraud L'Ermitage
38 Rue Jean de l'Habit, Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, Maine-et-Loire

Reviews

9.2

Wonderful

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9.6/10

Cleanliness

9.2/10

Staff & service

8.8/10

Amenities

9.4/10

Property conditions & facilities

9.6/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Kyriakos

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Jeff

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Experience of the abbey at night .
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023
Response from MV on Nov 9, 2023
Cher Jeff, Nous vous remercions pour votre note très encourageante !Nous vous souhaitons une belle journée et au plaisir de vous accueillir à nouveau.Bien à vous ;

10/10 Excellent

CHARLTON

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Beautiful srchitecture
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2023

8/10 Good

Joelle

Stayed 1 night in Apr 2023

8/10 Good

Christopher

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2023

6/10 Okay

Jay

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
1 for 2
This is my second stay at the hotel. I had a wonderful experience previously and wanted to begin with that. After my recent business trip, I was disappointed. Our rooms had no functioning hot water in our rooms (Jardin) room the morning of our departure. This was unfortunate because I was hoping to walk the grounds before we left for our meeting. Instead, we lingered hoping to shower, and eventually left unshowered and instead had a mediocre breakfast. Overall, a major letdown. All of that considered I will try again but next time, stay in the main building. The jardin rooms are small and one of my group complained of this.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2023

10/10 Excellent

Sharron

Stayed 1 night in May 2022

10/10 Excellent

Mr A J

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Beautiful, calm and restorative.
The whole atmosphere of the hotel is so calm and restorative. The setting, in the ancien abbey, is simply lovely. Our room was delightful. Breakfast was splendid. The staff were helpful and friendly, with the service over all, of the highest quality. It is essential to book dinner in the restaunt as soon as you can, as there are not many covers, so were not able to eat there.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2022

10/10 Excellent

Johan

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
La silence
Amazing place. History and modern art are omnipresent.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2022

10/10 Excellent

Simone

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Best night sleep
Best night sleep in many years for both myself and my partner! The garden room was super comfortable and clean. The place itself ia gorgeous and so calming. The receptionist was great! Only one thing to faulter, we didn't have breakfast as we thought it was way overpriced and that was the only downside really.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2022

8/10 Good

R F

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Would stay again
A lovely modern clean hotel
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2021

8/10 Good

Norman

Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2022

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
just magical
Incredible place, and perfect service!
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2021

8/10 Good

Daniel

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Beautiful, relaxing spot
I love Fontevraud. This is a special place - between the history of the abbey, the amazing restaurant, the comfortable and clean rooms, the dedication to eco-friendliness, and on and on. Our only complaint, and this might sound very American, is the lack of climate control. On a very stuffy, hot afternoon, our west-facing, top-floor room was HOT. We opened windows but were immediately faced with clouds of gnats and insects that swarmed our room. We asked for a fan, which the front desk clerk said he would bring up. He called back 10 minutes later to say "no fans because of the Covid situation". ?????? No fans in our own room because of Covid??? Ummmmmmm, Ok.... Their dedication to providing an eco-friendly spot is commendable, but a winter-weight duvet on the bed, no fans, no ventilation, no fan, crazy insects means no sleep, and no sleep means not a good visit. This was our second visit to Fontevraud, and we will definitely be back - just not in summer, and we will definitely request to NOT be on the top floor where the rooms bake in the sunlight.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2021

10/10 Excellent

jacques

Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2021

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
Nice having access to abbey. But hotel has much to be desired: no air conditioning or even fans in excessively warm rooms (they said no fans because of COVID??); no water in rooms or refrig, no tea pot or coffee, amenities lacking. Big problem: access to hotel is only through parking lot some ways away, or through public access lobby to Abbey site, which is often crowded and requires you to show vax cards each time. Rooms are poorly designed with windows which allow for no privacy..no curtains, just shutters. Staff tried to be helpful, but clearly this hotel not up to four star status. Great breakfast/20 euros a person.
Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2021

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Room’s carpet needs better cleaning as well as the bathroom. No air conditioning in the room hard to sleep in the summer better off some place else. Breakfast just okay.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2021

10/10 Excellent

Sharon

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2021

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
We came here specifically to see the tombs of Richard the Lion Hart and King Henry II. The hotel is first class as is the service. The Abbey is amazing.
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Elegant, historic, amazing experience. Great accommodation
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2019

10/10 Excellent

Robin

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
History-Lover's Dream. Walk the Grounds all night
Fontevraud L'Hotel was one of the most unique and incredible hotel experiences I have ever had. The beautiful, peaceful surrounding of this absolutely gorgeous hotel made it lovely. However, it was the experience of being able to walk the grounds of this enormous abbey, enter buildings, meditate in the cloister, spend time in the crypt at any time (I walked the grounds until almost midnight) that proved truly magical. Steeped in the long, complicated history of France, this place is a history-lover's dream. I highly recommend this experience for anyone in love with France who wants to love it even more.
Fontevraud at night
No-filter sunset
My beautiful room that used to be a souer's living quarters.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2019

10/10 Excellent

Bertrand

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
So Peaceful
Beautiful place to relax and meditate
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The ambience of the property was amazing. Quiet and peaceful, to wander around early morning and late afternoon was wonderful. The comfort room in the hotel was on the small side with little hanging space but had all of the other amenities that we needed. There was no air conditioning so the room was rather warm but we were able to open the windows at night which cooled the temperature.
Stayed 5 nights in Aug 2019

8/10 Good

The.2.of.us., U.S.A. (States.)

Travelled with family, Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Staff & service
Swip card / credit card for lighting. Remote key door locks, work in progress, construction. Lot of lose ends, maybe in 3 or 4 yrs. Come back.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2019

10/10 Excellent

Jonathan

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Perfect weekend stay
The setting is absolutely superb, the hotel wonderfully designed and probably the best meal we have ever eaten.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2019

8/10 Good

Anna-Clare

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2019

10/10 Excellent

jane

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Beautiful setting
Beautiful setting and imaginatively designed hotel . Restaurant in cloisters was a very special setting for delicious and memorable food. only criticism is that the rooms may need some additional forms of cooling
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2019

8/10 Good

Beatrice

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
An amazing and unusual place to stay
Romms are modern and decoration very sobre (we are in a monastary!) Important to know that the parking is far away from hotel! They can provide an electric car to pick you up at car park with luggage, but nobody told us that, so we walked all the way with our luggage….
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2018

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2018

10/10 Excellent

Kathryn, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
The abbey was very interesting, glad it was open at night
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2018

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Stayed 1 night in Oct 2018

10/10 Excellent

Ken, Askwith, Yorkshire Dales

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Modern 5 star hotel in a historic setting
Very interesting hotel situated in an old and historic abbey. The hotel has recently been refurbished into a modern 4/5 star hotel The restaurant is particularly excellent and not to be missed. A real experience.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2018

10/10 Excellent

mike

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Historic site
An amazing opportunity to stay in an historic abbey. Interesting modern design in an old building. The restaurant is absolutely superb
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2018

8/10 Good

Laurie, Surrey

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Great hotel, brilliant location interesting abbaye
Very nice hotel set within the old abbaye grounds. Hotel very clean albeit very warm in hot weather. Excellent meal at the restaurant but a little expensive. But would highly recommend!
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2018

10/10 Excellent

Emma

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Amazing hotel in a fantastic setting
The hotel was lovely and clean and very modern set inside the historical monument of Fondevraud. The restaurant and the bar were equally impressive and the best thing about the hotel was that it gave after-hours access to the abbey, up until 1am which was great because it was all lit up in the dark. The only down side was the lack of air conditioning meant that the room got very hot but the staff were extremely helpful and provided us with cold water, mist sprays and dabs which helped a lot!
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2018

6/10 Okay

Jim

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Make dinner reservations weeks in advance!!
Nice accoidations. Was a great perk that you have full access to the entire site even after it closes to the general public. The one downside is that if you don’t make dinner reservations weeks in advance it will book up. Our issue was that every restaurant in Town was booked up. We were forced to use room service. This was nice but diner was about $200 there are no tables except a very low coffee table in the rooms. Eating a $200 meal on the floor was not fun. Also be aware there is no air conditiining and it was hot. The lower roo cooled down nicely with the windows open (no screens to keep bugs out, but loft was unbearably hot.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2018

10/10 Excellent

Mark, San Diego

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Beautiful location right in the abbey.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2018

8/10 Good

Sandra, Toronto, Canada

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Beautiful and quiet location
Well appointed, clean, great restaurant, spectacular grounds, 10 minute walk to the sweet village. You have complete access to the Abbaye day and night. A couple of odd things - nobody brought our suitcases to the room, we had to retrieve them ourselves and our dinner reservation for the restaurant, although confirmed through the app, was not confirmed with the restaurant.
Stayed 4 nights in Jul 2018

8/10 Good

Richard

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Fun stay
We enjoyed our stay. The facilities were amazing. The room was small and a bit warm. There was no air conditioning but a fan unit did help a bit. We only ate breakfast but the setting was amazing. The Anbey was a bit far from anything though Chinon and Sameur were a nice drive. We had a fantastic dinner at a local restaurant based on the staffs recommendation. Worth a stay understanding it is a bit remote.
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2018

8/10 Good

Adriana

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2018

10/10 Excellent

Mark

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
High concept comfort
This is extremely interesting “high concept” accommodation. The design of the facilities and furnishings evokes the monastic heritage while maintaining high modern comfort. Breakfast was served in the dining room, formerly the cloister. Dinner is a gourmet experience which, like the furnishings, evokes monastic asceticism with imaginative and surprising adaptations of the traditions. Staying at the hotel gives 24-hour access to the extensive monastic site and gardens. Wandering the mostly deserted grounds and buildings in early morning or twilight is a marvellous experience. The location is convenient for making daytrips in the area with parking within the abbey walls.
Stayed 4 nights in May 2018

6/10 Okay

Andreas

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
A historic and individual stay
Definitely recommend staying here. This is a truly unique hotel with small but comfortable and tastefully decorated rooms. The grounds are fabulous. A real privilege that hotel guests can explore the Abbey freely after hours. Would advise against breakfast here - it is too over-priced considering you're only getting a limited continental breakfast. Would recommend going to the great little boulangerie in the village instead! Also, make sure you book in advance if you want to eat at the restaurant during your stay. We were not informed of this and as it's so popular there was no availability for the 3 days we were there.

8/10 Good

Kristina

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Absolutely beautiful!! You have free parking, free access to the abbey and grounds. It was an absolutely beautiful renovation. The room was extremely small and I would not recommend the Comfort rooms unless you are a couple or a single. The bathrooms were great with a fantastic shower! They were very high tech but the iPad did not really serve any great purpose. The restaurant was fully booked when we arrived so if you want to eat on premises make sure to make a reservation ahead of time. Breakfast was very expensive for what you received, it was 18 Euros a person and service was a little slow. Overall a gorgeous hotel and having access to the grounds at night was a very unique experience. Decent service and a decent room with a lot of amenities.

10/10 Excellent

Nigel

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
A bit of English History in the Middle of France
A bit expensive but well worth it. Lovely Hotel, Charming Village, Masses of places to visit. Ellenor of Aquitaine, Husband Henry 2 of England & Richard 1, Coeur de Lion, all buried here fantastic tombs and lots of history here.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2018

10/10 Excellent

Robert

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Beautiful and peaceful. As well the restaurant is exceptional
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2017

10/10 Excellent

jan

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Excellent stay!
Fantastic room, luxurious bed mattress and wonderful bathroom!! No negative comments
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2017

8/10 Good

Philip

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Lovely
Lovely hotel and amazing experience. Book a table in advance, otherwise you'll struggle to find somewhere to eat in the village.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2017

10/10 Excellent

Gary

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great hotel is a stunning setting.
Great place to stay. The Abby grounds are stunning which you have free access to as part of your stay. The hotel is surrounded by rolling fields of sunflowers and vines. The hotel has free bikes which are in good condition so you can explore the area. We cycled to Château du Petit Thouars (6kn away) for some wine tasting and Chinon (20km away). The hotel is clean and the staff are super friendly. Very enjoyable stay.
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2017