Hôtel la Petite Bohème

Petit hôtel charmant situé à quelques pas du centre historique et du port du Lavandou Mention particulière à la propriétaire pour son accueil chaleureux et ses conseils

Just returned from great few days staying in Le lavandou. Very easy booking directly with the hotel and always prompt replies with any queries before trip. On arrival, efficient check in. Very bad storms in Le Lavandou on our first day - one member of our group needed a room change because of water leak in the room - no problem to staff. Ingrid in particular helped us with restaurant suggestions, ferry bookings to the national park islands, places to get sandwiches etc for picnic. We were able to leave our luggage and have a day exploring before a late afternoon transfer back to Nice. All in all a very pleasant, comfortable hotel, perfectly situated with very attentive and obliging hosts. Hopefully will make a return visit. Helen Downey. Visited May 2025

This may just be rated a 2 star hotel but wow the staff ought to be rated 5 star at least. Always very helpful, genuinely really friendly and speaks good English too. The hotel is really cute with lots of thought behind decor and the garden is a very peaceful place to enjoy the continental breakfast and to sunbathe or read a book. Secure with code 24/7, security cameras. A stunning walk down to the beach through cobbled streets, local shops , souvenir stalls and boule areas. Private secure parking available in the harbour a few minutes away from the hotel. We arrived a day early with no reservation and after a late night call Laurence turned up at the hotel late at night and helped us out moving in temporarily to a room that had been cancelled last minute- we were very lucky. She helped carrying bags, sorting beds and bedding as well as coming with us to the car park- very accommodating and friendly and they all have been throughout our stay - with personal recommendations of restaurants, coffee shops, best beaches, how to catch the train to other than the local beach and booking boat trips, best ice cream place, launderette, supermarkets etc I can’t recommend this hotel enough. Clean and fresh rooms, bedding and towels daily. Good aircon. Sea view or cute garden view. Our daughters shared a room overlooking a lime tree and me and my partner watched the boats going in and out from our room.

The best part of this hotel is its location. It’s away from the main hustle and bustle of the town, up a side street off the main road through Le Lavandou, but less than five minutes away from shops and restaurants and less than ten minutes from the beach. Overall however we were disappointed. Having had a motorcycle stolen when touring France almost my first priority when selecting a hotel now is some form of private parking. The Tripadvisor and *********** websites state there is “Free parking”. To me this means that the hotel has its own parking. It does not. There are five or six spaces on the very steep street with a ‘hotel parking’ sign on the wall. I stress that this inaccuracy is on the Tripadvisor and *********** websites, the hotel’s doesn’t mention parking at all. We were lucky that the space right outside the gate of the hotel was vacant when we arrived. Fortunately we did not intend to use the motorcycle while at Le Lavandou as the chances of that space, or indeed any space, being available when we got back would have been slim. To get into the hotel reception there are a six to eight stone steps from street level. Our room was on the first floor which could only be accessed up more stairs. There is no lift. To get to the “Exotic Garden” also requires walking down the stairs to street level and then another six to eight stairs to get to the garden. It you have any mobility problems this hotel is definitely not for you. We had booked a “Double King Size Room with courtyard view”. That turned out to be a view of a tree and the building next door. If we stretched out of the window a bit we could see the gas tank and a washing line (see photos). Not really much of a view at all. Having been there we should have booked a room with a terrace. All the photographs we could find on the websites showed that the rooms had shower cubicles or were in the bath with a screen. Ours was in the bath with a plastic shower curtain (see photo). It must be around 20 years since I last came across anything like that. Inevitably that meant that taking a shower meant constantly having to stop the shower curtain wrapping itself around you. We were provided with a small bottle of shower gel. When that had been used it was not replaced. There is a breakfast buffet but it is an odd arrangement. Very small quantities of everything are put out. Although that minimises waste it does mean you are constantly having to ask for items to be replenished. What was offered was very average. The fruit juice tased like it was the long-life stuff that comes in cartons. The cooked meats and cheese were only cheap cheese slices, thin chorizo and salami slices and small slices of “processed” ham. Breakfast was exactly the same every day. We would have been better off taking the short walk into the town and having breakfast at one of the cafes there. On the last day they ran out of croissants when there was still well over an hour of the scheduled breakfast time left. Appar

La localisation est agréable mais malheureusement les chambres sont très bruyantes, vous entendez les gens dans le couloirs mais aussi dans leurs chambres donc impossible de profiter de ses vacances, je ne recommande pas. … Sans compter l'accueil et le service catastrophiques. Je n'y mettrai plus les pieds, dommage

Très mauvaise expérience pour ce qui est uniquement du restaurant. Autant en cuisine quand service. A 20h le chef n'était toujours pas la , un barbecue dans un coin sans lumière ou l'on vous cuit du poisson, la viande et les légumes réchauffé . Quantité ridicule et pour le dessert... nous sommes partis avant. Et j'en passe