Château de Noirieux

This is a very stylish hotel in every respect. A beautiful building has been sympathetically converted into a small luxury hotel. Our room was very comfortable and the extras such as towelling dressing gowns and lovely soaps shampoos moisturiser etc. Dinner was the bistro menu and we could not have asked for a more delicious small menu, beautifully prepared and presented. Breakfast was outstanding too, including homemade jams and the best scrambled eggs I can remember! Our dogs were made welcome and they appreciated the extensive grounds

No lift. My room was in an annex and on the third floor. Just poor to average overall. The restaurant was good, but overall, I would skip staying here and just make a reservation for dinner. Grounds were pretty. The hotel is remote, so if you are staying ere, this would be the place to eat.

We needed a stop-over near Angers en route back to the ferry in Cherbourg. It was a Tuesday night. The accommodation and setting are quite special, a beauty of a chateau just on the banks of Le Loir, lovely walk along the river and a heated pool for after. The bedroom was huge, the bathroom fantastic with a huge tub. The main disappointment was the dinner. Billed as a great restaurant, must be Wednesday to Sunday because there we were in the Loire Valley and on offer was ‘spaghetti bolognese and cheeseburger sliders’! There we other options like Beouf Bourginon, but nothing imaginative whatsoever. We were actually shocked at the menu. The food was hugely disappointing, specially after 9 days of amazing food in and around Bordeaux. I would recommend this place only if you are going in high season and on a weekend. Otherwise the service is spotty and the food un-inviting.

Beautiful hotel maintained and furnished to a high standard. Large rooms. Excellent, high quality, food and drink with prices to match. However; Hotel refers to two restaurants, in reality only one but very limited menu in early part of week particularly as some items listed were not available.Later in week food good but ..see below. If you book a room rate inclusive of breakfast be aware this is very basic, breads, croissants, juice which usually had to be requested as decanters empty . Dairy items such as yogurt or cheese, eggs, cold meat, fruit and anything cooked at significant extra cost. Yogurt at extra cost was a small plastic tub of Vanilla or Vanilla, no choice. Pleasant pool but closed on 2 of 3 days we stayed due to filter problems. Some noise problems late at night in main building as echoey and sound carried. Defining aspect was however service which was below acceptable. For example, no staff to be found at all in the hotel for some 30 minutes pre dinner on the first night and guests just waiting around bemused. Food and drink service very slow, and everything had to be asked for, if you could find anyone to ask. Staff just walked past guests carrying luggage (stairs steep) with no offer to help. No sign of any management during our stay. On complaining at reception staff agreed service very poor, breakfast basic and pool closure unacceptable but although they agreed to to Breakfast costs being deducted this did not go anywhere near compensating for the issues. We wanted to like this Hotel but would recommend looking elsewhere due to issues above;in particular the poor service.