L'Orée des Chênes, the Originals Relais

Good food but expensive. Location is good and the staff are friendly ..however do not stay here if the temperature is above 25 degrees. They have no air conditioning in any of their rooms and we were unable to sleep for two nights despite fans being placed in the room. Also their Internet service is absolutely terrible with no viable service in the room.

For some reason our otherwise excellent SatNav couldn't find this place so I had to resort to asking for directions in the town. Having finally arrived we agreed that the hotel is in a lovely country location and looks very attractive. The lady on Reception was very helpful and friendly and pulled my wife's case to our, outside, room. The room was large, comfortable and warm, although rather dated with a large pale blue corner bath. I think that the hotel prides itself in it's cuisine and the prices certainly reflect that; my wife's 'Men des Chenes'' was 47 Euro and my 'Thyme crusted rack of lamb', which was in reality two lamb cutlets, was 27 Euro alone. We chose a bottle of Rose from the lower end of the list and it was only 52 Euro. The food was ok but nothing more, although our two servers were charming. In the morning we went in to breakfast at just after 9am and we were alone; as we had a long drive ahead of us we wanted a good cooked breakfast but there was only a smear of scrambled egg and one small sausage left. I asked the waiter if we could have some fried eggs but he had no English so I asked for "oeufs frittes" but he did not understand; I even tried pointing to the scrambled egg and miming breaking an egg into a frying pan but still nothing. He brought his phone and tried a translation and finally we were there - however, his reply was "pas possible". I was astonished that a kitchen that had prepared our dinner could not rise to frying some eggs! The waiter disappeared and, after some time, reappeared with two plates each containing a fried egg and three rashers of bacon, without a word. The (different) lady on Reception asked if everything had been good and, when I explained about breakfast, she deducted 20 Euro from our bill. A very good gesture but it should not have been necessary. No, we don't plan to return. My apologies for the long winded review.

L'hôtel, typique, se situe dans un cadre absolument magnifique -ne manquait qu'un petit rayon de soleil pour illuminer l'étang et l'ensemble du domaine. Le service est aux petits soins, depuis l'accueil jusqu'au check-out en passant par le petit-déjeuner, complet et compris dans le prix de la chambre. Cette dernière, de taille plus que raisonnable, est tout à fait conforme aux attendus : parfaitement équipée et chauffée, par ailleurs dotée d'une salle d'eau séparée avec baignoire. Au regard du prix payé (115 euros taxes de séjour comprises), on ne peut que se satisfaire cette belle et douce nuit à l'Orée des Chênes : on recommande !