“Average stay - poor breakfast & no restaurant during the covid19 crisis”

Set on a shopping park on the edge of town (as they often are in France), small clean rooms, comfy beds, good, free surface carpark, pets accepted at €5 a night. We have stayed at the Ibis at Pau Lescar before and I chose it again because it has a nice outdoor seating area for the restaurant, whic… Több

Set on a shopping park on the edge of town (as they often are in France), small clean rooms, comfy beds, good, free surface carpark, pets accepted at €5 a night. We have stayed at the Ibis at Pau Lescar before and I chose it again because it has a nice outdoor seating area for the restaurant, which means you can have the dog with you. On checking in, the first problem is................no restaurant ! It might have been nice if they'd told me that when I made the booking ! Second problem was, no buffet breakfast, order your breakfast on a form at check-in. At least the outside seating area was still there and we could get a drink from the bar and have it there, the inside seating was also all there in case it got chilly later (which it did !) So, what do we do now, we've driven all the way from Spain and we are hungry. Because we have stayed before, we knew there was a McDonalds next door, but we don't do McDonalds ! Got back in the car and after a bit more exploring we found a nice patisserie on the other side of the dual carriageway that sold pizzas, so we had to have that ! Took it back to the hotel and used their outside seating which I didnt think they could complain about. Next morning, the breakfast on a tray was rubbish ! We only got 1 tiny croissant, 1 tiny bread roll that was only part baked so very hard, a bit of jam, orange juice and coffee. Each breakfast was €5.50, so an €11 rip off altogether. We would have been better going back to the patisserie but it wasnt open due to our early start. Then, when we checked out, the card machine wasn't working even though they said only card payments !! God job I had some cash ! I stayed in 6 Ibis hotels this trip in Spain & France and I can honestly say this was the worst. I naively thought that all Ibis hotels in France would be taking the same approach to the Covid19 crisis and presenting the guest experience in the same way. How wrong could I be? Ibis Pau Lescar should take note of what the hotels further north are doing, particularly Tours Sud & Abbeville as they were so much better !

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