Hôtel la Croix Blanche

Location: Highly praised for proximity to Mont Saint Michel, offering convenient access to explore the site and its surroundings.

We wished to stay on the island, particularly as we were to arrive later in the evening (around 7pm), and wanted to visit the abbey first thing in the morning, 9am, we had purchased our tickets in advance. A The check in was quite easy. We drove, it was quite easy to find the parking lot for the island hotel clients, the hotel provided a passcode to enter, and the shuttle was not far from this lot. What a lovely view of the island during the sunset from the shuttle. We went to a reception that was part of another hotel (assuming same owners), and we were surprised at the meandering to get to our room, lots of steps - this would not be advisable for anyone with mobility problems or heavy luggage. We were forewarned and condensed our luggage to small bags for this evening. We were in France in mid-June at the time of heavy heat, and while I can understand the restrictions of the island and not having the infrastructure to support air conditioning, I think providing a fan would have been reasonable. We asked for a fan and they said they did not have one to provide. We slept with the window wide open to the sound of the ever-present seagulls (actually afraid that one might actually fly into the wide open window) however that never happened. The temperature did cool in the evening, and we did end up having a comfortable sleep, the beds were nice. I would advise anyone to bring a sleep mask and ear plugs, I had both and I was fine. The view from the room was lovely, we had a lovely view of the abbey. Upon our arrival around 7pm, we had a stroll around the island, which was lovely at low tide, I walked in my bare feet, the silt felt amazing. We were pleased that the hotel had a restaurant section reserved for hotel clients, we did not have to reserve specially. The meal was very nice.