Hôtel du Fiacre

We chose the hotel and stayed during the Tour de France and this was one of the last hotels available. The hotel is located close to the Carpentras city centre in a side road. Parking for unloading the car is possible but after that you have to park the car at the parking lot which us approximately 50m away from the hotel. Parking there is free. The whole building is rather old fashioned and so are the rooms. But it has it‘s charm. We had a balcony with view to the patio. We did not really like the bathroom. The shower is within the bathtub which normally is no problem but in this bathroom there was no shower curtain and the water had almost no pressure which made washing hair very hard. The „hairdryer“ was not really a hairdryer — so bring your own. There is no AC and summers are hot. You have to let the door to the balcony open and will probably visited by a lot of mosquitos. There is also no roomservice but if you need something you just have to let them know. The patio is very lovely with a big tree in the middle. The host is a nice woman but it seems that she and her husband are doing all by themselves. That means you have to bring a certain amount of patience with you. The breakfast was really good and was served in the patio. Since the host is doing everything by herself you have to wait until she asks what you want. There is no buffet. If you are a cyclist, I would NOT recommend this hotel at all. There is no spare room where you can put the bikes so we had them in the patio and therefore accessible for all guests. On the first day we were allowed to bring them in the lobby after 9pm because the weather forcast said that there would be rain. All guests that came with bikes had to do it that way. You are not allowed to bring them into your room. All in all I was a bit disappointed in Carpentras in general. You don’t have much restaurants and if you are hungry at 4pm you have to buy something at a supermarekt because none of the bistros is serving food at this time.