Aparthotel Adagio Montpellier Centre Comedie

Great location just across city centre

we were told that we had no reservation When we arrived at the hotel we were told that we had no reservation. Our trip was a family trip with two children. We showed them the photocopy of the reservation, they were not satisfied and demanded that I show them the original email (on my mobile phone) and that I call my tour operator, which I did. Finally they put me up (after three hours at the hotel reception) in a hotel that did not have the characteristics I had chosen. The hotel in question was under construction (Novotel). The tour operator commented that the taxi journeys had to be paid for by the contracted hotel. The taxi driver told us that we had to pay for them ourselves. I am still waiting for reimbursement. It is terrible to arrive at a long booked hotel with two children and have no accommodation. I think this kind of overbooking practices should be highly punishable by law.

I had actually booked for the Ibis Styles, which shares a building with the Aparthotel Adagio, but I found when I got there I had been upgraded to the Aparthotel. It looks like it's aimed at someone who is staying for a while and wants to do a bit of self catering, as there was a little kitchenette in the room. While the room was nice and spacious for my purposes, as I was only staying one night, it seems a bit on the small size for something calling itself an "apartment". There was no sofa in the room. But anyway, for me, it did the job just fine. The hotel is just a few minutes' walk away from the train station, which is handy if you're arriving in Montpellier by train (as I was). It's also fairly well placed for the city centre, and there's no shortage of nice places to eat in a few short minutes' walk from the hotel. If you're really desperate, you can eat in the hotel, though the range of food was very limited, and looked like microwave ready meals rather than anything freshly prepared. Breakfast was OK though. Staff were perfectly pleasant and helpful. On the whole, no complaints.