Relais & Chateaux - accommodation in La Celle

Our friends who drive us there couldn’t find anything but a parking garage with the GPS & their van couldn’t drive down into it so we gave up & got an Uber. Our Uber driver left us down at the parking garage level street, dropped us off & showed us a big flight of outdoor stairs to haul our suitcases up to where the main floor of the hotel apparently was. At the top we found the lovely hotel and a friendly person at the desk & checked in. The next day we were walking around on the actual hotel upper street level & found outdoor escalators that could take you to the lower street level (or up to the hotel street level.) If this sounds confusing it was and the front desk person said he understood & that only taxis pick up & deliver on the upper level that the hotel is actually on, not Ubers. Aside from that the included breakfast was good! The place was clean & we were glad we finally found it.

The breakfast was comprehensive and included hot items. I purchased it for the three nights I stayed for 15 Euro each day. I paid up front and in hindsight I wish I’d paid by the day. Toulon has some wonderful bakeries open for breakfast, and they aren’t far of a walk from the hotel. I selected the hotel for its location which turned out to be great! The train station and port were short walks away. The staff were welcoming and friendly and spoke English well. I don’t think my room had air conditioning as I tried to get that working on the wall unit but could not. It didn’t matter as I didn’t need it anyway. I was there in early April with very pleasant temperatures. My window also opened to allow a fresh breeze to blow in. Overall I liked the hotel and would book there again! C’est tres bien!

The hotel is about a 10 minute walk from old town. Parking is available for free and is spacious. The directions to the hotel will bring you to the road that runs right in front of it but you can't access the hotel from it. Better to drive up to it from the direction of a Peugeot dealership that's next to it. The initial impression of the hotel is nice, but once in my room, I noticed the bed sheets stunk of body odor, the towels were poorly washed and dried. They were grey, even though they were supposed to be dry. There was mildew between the tiles, but I've seen worse so I guess I could have lived with that. But the bed linens are a no go.