Manoir d'Aix-les-Bains
37 rue Georges 1er, 73100, Aix-les-Bains France
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See why so many travellers make Le Manoir their hotel of choice when visiting Aix-les-Bains. Providing an ideal mix of value, comfort and convenience, it offers an array of amenities designed for travellers like you.
Le Manoir features a concierge, to help make your stay more enjoyable. The property also boasts a pool. If you are driving to Le Manoir, free parking is available.
Given the close proximity to Arc De Campanus (0.4 km), guests of Le Manoir can easily experience one of Aix-les-Bains' most popular landmarks.
While in Aix-les-Bains, you may want to check out some of the restaurants that are a short walk away from Le Manoir, including Ailleurs Resto (1.0 km), Restaurant l'Estrade (0.5 km), and Restaurant le 59 (0.6 km).
There is no shortage of things to do in the area: explore popular architectural buildings such as Église paroissiale Notre-Dame.
We’re sure you’ll enjoy your stay at Le Manoir as you experience all of the things Aix-les-Bains has to offer.
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Free parking
Free internet
Fitness Centre with Gym / Workout Room
Pool
Tennis court
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Business Centre with Internet Access
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Indoor pool
Heated pool
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37 rue Georges 1er, 73100, Aix-les-Bains France
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I note a review from 2013 said 'In need of investment', well it has still not happened!
We had booked a studio, but were put in a twin room instead. The room was very old fashioned and at the back of the hotel, it was however clean and reasonably comfortable. The breakfast is a complete rip-off, with 1 bread roll and a few small croissant, the following night we had a choice of about 30 items for 2 euros less!
It's best feature is the lovely swimming pool.
We had booked a studio, but were put in a twin room instead. The room was very old fashioned and at the back of the hotel, it was however clean and reasonably comfortable. The breakfast is a complete rip-off, with 1 bread roll and a few small croissant, the following night we had a choice of about 30 items for 2 euros less!
It's best feature is the lovely swimming pool.
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Date of stay: July 2018Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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This hotel was built in the 60's and desperately needs investment. Our room was actually fine but was not cleaned adequately. Lift was not working and was a relic of the 60's. Breakfast was poor and tables not cleared from dinner so limited choice of seating. We ate only once in the hotel in 5 days once to many. The hotel is also a good 2 kms from the lakeside and further to the restuarants and ferry terminal,
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Date of stay: August 2013Trip type: Travelled with family
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Remember the exchange in the movie "Casablanca" where Bogart is asked "why did you come to Casablanca?" and he says "For the waters", to which he receives the reply "but this is a desert!" and he said "I was misinformed..."
Le Manoir is a hotel frozen in time from the 1940s (or maybe the 1930s) and therein lies its charm. But we did come for the waters - Aix Les Bains has been known as a center of "thermalisme" for millennia. But now it's basically a French government racket - get diagnosed with fibromyalgia or some other condition and prescribed "the cure" and you are in. The whole town, and Le Manoir included, is in on the racket.
We've been looking for a place, any place, really with *hot* baths, available to the public. You'd think it's easy. Heh. We booked Le Manoir (after two earlier failed attempts elsewhere) under the notion that their touted Jacuzzi would be availble.
It's broken. The hot tub is BROKEN. In its place they offer pool jets. Pool jets! Screw that! Get the damned thing fixed, and get it fixed NOW. Don't fence it off, get it FIXED! You charge a HUGE amount for your rooms, which are okay but not really worth what you charge unless you are really into the 30s thing. Anyway, if you want a hot tub/Jacuzzi, call first.
You'd think you could just walk up the street to the Thermes National, Chevalley, or whatever. And you can, unless you have under-twelve-year-olds with you. Then you can basically forget it. And, it's more like a hospital than a tourist attraction anyway and I am not sure I want to bathe with the folks I saw waiting their turns in any case. Sigh.
They sent us to Adelphia, near the lake. No dice - they only take people over three years old. Basically there is not much for the young family here in Aix les Bains, they really just don't care, I don't think. It's not about that here.
Buyer beware.
As for the restaurant at Le Manoir, we had some very nice food, prices are not too bad, service is a bit inattentive but amicable. Wine list was really reasonable, actually. Compared with the room prices, anyway, it was not bad.
The grounds are really beautiful, like walking into a Renoir painting, really captured it. Ask for an omelet at breakfast.
Le Manoir is a hotel frozen in time from the 1940s (or maybe the 1930s) and therein lies its charm. But we did come for the waters - Aix Les Bains has been known as a center of "thermalisme" for millennia. But now it's basically a French government racket - get diagnosed with fibromyalgia or some other condition and prescribed "the cure" and you are in. The whole town, and Le Manoir included, is in on the racket.
We've been looking for a place, any place, really with *hot* baths, available to the public. You'd think it's easy. Heh. We booked Le Manoir (after two earlier failed attempts elsewhere) under the notion that their touted Jacuzzi would be availble.
It's broken. The hot tub is BROKEN. In its place they offer pool jets. Pool jets! Screw that! Get the damned thing fixed, and get it fixed NOW. Don't fence it off, get it FIXED! You charge a HUGE amount for your rooms, which are okay but not really worth what you charge unless you are really into the 30s thing. Anyway, if you want a hot tub/Jacuzzi, call first.
You'd think you could just walk up the street to the Thermes National, Chevalley, or whatever. And you can, unless you have under-twelve-year-olds with you. Then you can basically forget it. And, it's more like a hospital than a tourist attraction anyway and I am not sure I want to bathe with the folks I saw waiting their turns in any case. Sigh.
They sent us to Adelphia, near the lake. No dice - they only take people over three years old. Basically there is not much for the young family here in Aix les Bains, they really just don't care, I don't think. It's not about that here.
Buyer beware.
As for the restaurant at Le Manoir, we had some very nice food, prices are not too bad, service is a bit inattentive but amicable. Wine list was really reasonable, actually. Compared with the room prices, anyway, it was not bad.
The grounds are really beautiful, like walking into a Renoir painting, really captured it. Ask for an omelet at breakfast.
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Date of stay: April 2013Trip type: Travelled with family
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Room Tip: Ask for garden side.
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This hotel should be called Fawlty Towers! Everything about it is second-rate! That includes the service, the decor and the standard of cleanliness. I would not recommend this hotel to anyone! We arrived at 4.30 pm and ordered a cup of tea. Unfortunately, the receptionist forgot to pass the request on. There were no pillows on the beds only an insufficient kind of bolster. The shower over the bath did not have a fitting to hold the shower above waist height! The corridors were dark as indeed were the rooms. It was like stepping back in time to the 1950's! The fridge in the room was empty. We had assumed when we returned after dinner that there would be bottled water in it. The night porter said he could not give us water - he wasn't allowed to do so. I could go on and on...........
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Date of stay: September 2013Trip type: Travelled with family
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Le Manoir is, in fact, a well-dressed manor house with service to match. Many rooms look out on gardens in bloom even in October (some with balconies). Its lovely dining room serves good food in an old-fashioned decor. We particularly appreciated the dining room on the rainy night we arrived and its kitchen even came up with chicken sandwiches for the day we left. Quite special in our travels, Le Manoir has a truly heated indoor swimming pool in which we could swim laps! Apparently, folks come here for the Thermes and stay for three weeks, room and board. We could see why. Aix Les Baines is a great location, probably jammed in summer but we found easy parking along the lake and enjoyed a walk while watching sailboat classes. Lovely hotel with lovely grounds and a lovely restaurant. And there’s free parking across the street.
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Date of stay: October 2013Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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I was there as part of business trip. The booking was made and paid by one of our suppliers.
Late arrival and check in was managed well. I had a huge piece of luggage that I had to carry myself to the third floor. No staff was available. The basic room had malfunctioning TV and bed light. After 20 min of arguing I was upgraded to a pseudo suite, in fact a larger room. A bit tired but at least functional (except the TV). Otherwise I had a good night of sleep. The breakfast had the bare essentials but not more.
Late arrival and check in was managed well. I had a huge piece of luggage that I had to carry myself to the third floor. No staff was available. The basic room had malfunctioning TV and bed light. After 20 min of arguing I was upgraded to a pseudo suite, in fact a larger room. A bit tired but at least functional (except the TV). Otherwise I had a good night of sleep. The breakfast had the bare essentials but not more.
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Date of stay: April 2012Trip type: Travelled on business
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The building is charming, but all the rest....starting from the rooms, so small that you wonder if it is a joke. Additionally, the service is inexistant, they make you feel invisible. I might have chosen the wrong weekend (S.Valentine's), but, pls, if you know you have all these guests, provide additional personnel. I had paid for the package room+dinner and after having waited for 45 minutes that someone came to our table with no success, we decided to leave and have dinner elsewhere. They did not even apologized nor asked for the reason of our departure (useless to say that I was not reimbursed for the unused dinner). We left with no regret, especially because the dinner they were serving to other tables did not look good (among others, they were going around tables with trays of desserts and cheeses without using any food protection, just fully exposed to germs of all customers and staff. Disgusting.
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Date of stay: February 2011Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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This is a classic example of not doing enough research aforehand. I chose this hotel from an internet review for a significant wedding anniversary. Having driven over the mountains from Lyon and around the lower end of the lake, we were astonished to then find that the entire town of Aix les Bains is not on the lake but a couple of kilometers uphill, and that this hotel is a further couple of kilometers outside, uphill and not within walking distance from the town/lake - unless you like hiking.
The exterior is beautifully maintained patios with flowering plants and water features. The inside looks interesting - but.
We were greeted by a very friendly person who turned out to be (in a 3-day stay) the only friendly person on the premises. We were offered a choice of rooms and chose the one I had reserved - a twin with balcony overlooking the gardens. The bedroom was very nice but the bathroom was the tiniest I have ever encountered in any hotel anywhere. The lavatory was right next to the small bathtub which is rather too intimate for two people sharing even if they have been married for a long time.
We were really looking forward to dining there for potentially all 3 nights. But one glance at the menu somehow told me that it had not changed in a very long time (~10 years?) and worse, that it would not change while we were there. One side of the menu is labelled both Gourmet and Gourmand with the first character off each line missing (due to poor print-out) which made it hard to read. The other side of the menu is a la carte, containing more or less the same items as on the facing page. Uh huh........
We changed for dinner and needn't have bothered: there were other people there in shorts and trainers. There was one waiter running about 30 tables with one elderly assistant. As a result his entire mission was to sit people down and rush them through their meal as fast as possible. He succeeded in this mission too - on the first night he had managed to clear the dining room by 10.15pm and on the second night did even better. The place was completely empty by 9.30pm. We were astonished, and very disappointed with the complete lack of ambience and worse, the so-called gourmet/gourmand meal. It seemed to us that they plate up all the little vegetables (very pretty but completely tastless) and then whack on whatever the customers have ordered - lamb, beef, fish - all main courses come with the same accompaniments whatever you have ordered. This is not gourmet dining.
Additionally, there is nothing to do once you have been rushed through your meal and left the dining room. There is no bar. There is a lounge (empty) and a serving position, but no one attends to it except the receptionist. The only option is to go back to your room, or sit outside with coffee. They don't like customers sitting outside after dinner, we found. They turned all the lights out, leaving us in the dark garden.
Breakfast makes you blink, slowly. They charge €14 per head for a completely unstaffed area with rock-hard bread rolls (the same as in the restaurant), tiny flaking croissants, some cheeses which look left-over from the restaurant, plain yoghurt, huge urns of tea/coffee and if you want anything hot you have to boil the egg yourself. But there is no alternative for breakfast unless you are prepared to hike ~2km into town.
The overall impression is that looks are not everything and that they are resting on their (presumably years ago) laurels with the tastless and over-cooked food. They need more waiting staff, a new chef and a complete revision of the menu. They should also at least pretend to care when 3-night customers tell them that their establishment was chosen for a significant anniversary.
Very disappointing. Not recommended.
The exterior is beautifully maintained patios with flowering plants and water features. The inside looks interesting - but.
We were greeted by a very friendly person who turned out to be (in a 3-day stay) the only friendly person on the premises. We were offered a choice of rooms and chose the one I had reserved - a twin with balcony overlooking the gardens. The bedroom was very nice but the bathroom was the tiniest I have ever encountered in any hotel anywhere. The lavatory was right next to the small bathtub which is rather too intimate for two people sharing even if they have been married for a long time.
We were really looking forward to dining there for potentially all 3 nights. But one glance at the menu somehow told me that it had not changed in a very long time (~10 years?) and worse, that it would not change while we were there. One side of the menu is labelled both Gourmet and Gourmand with the first character off each line missing (due to poor print-out) which made it hard to read. The other side of the menu is a la carte, containing more or less the same items as on the facing page. Uh huh........
We changed for dinner and needn't have bothered: there were other people there in shorts and trainers. There was one waiter running about 30 tables with one elderly assistant. As a result his entire mission was to sit people down and rush them through their meal as fast as possible. He succeeded in this mission too - on the first night he had managed to clear the dining room by 10.15pm and on the second night did even better. The place was completely empty by 9.30pm. We were astonished, and very disappointed with the complete lack of ambience and worse, the so-called gourmet/gourmand meal. It seemed to us that they plate up all the little vegetables (very pretty but completely tastless) and then whack on whatever the customers have ordered - lamb, beef, fish - all main courses come with the same accompaniments whatever you have ordered. This is not gourmet dining.
Additionally, there is nothing to do once you have been rushed through your meal and left the dining room. There is no bar. There is a lounge (empty) and a serving position, but no one attends to it except the receptionist. The only option is to go back to your room, or sit outside with coffee. They don't like customers sitting outside after dinner, we found. They turned all the lights out, leaving us in the dark garden.
Breakfast makes you blink, slowly. They charge €14 per head for a completely unstaffed area with rock-hard bread rolls (the same as in the restaurant), tiny flaking croissants, some cheeses which look left-over from the restaurant, plain yoghurt, huge urns of tea/coffee and if you want anything hot you have to boil the egg yourself. But there is no alternative for breakfast unless you are prepared to hike ~2km into town.
The overall impression is that looks are not everything and that they are resting on their (presumably years ago) laurels with the tastless and over-cooked food. They need more waiting staff, a new chef and a complete revision of the menu. They should also at least pretend to care when 3-night customers tell them that their establishment was chosen for a significant anniversary.
Very disappointing. Not recommended.
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Date of stay: September 2010Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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My mother and I stayed here on a road trip through France and I thought it was absolutely lovely! We had no problems with any of the hotel staff and I though the general ambiance was excellent. The bed was very comfortable. The pool was very calming and a very nice side to the hotel. No, it was not on the lake, but I can assume that a map would have been the first indication of that. We had a phenomenal dinner in the hotel the first night. We got take out pizza from a place we noticed driving in the second night which was also good. This was in the Summer of 2009 so perhaps things have changed?
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Date of stay: October 2010Trip type: Travelled with friends
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Booked a room here that supposedly had a garden view (paid quite a bit more for it). Our balcony was too high to see over without standing up. The bed was very old and lumpy. We did not have a shower, just a bath with a shower spout. The room smelled bad (old and musty), and there was no air conditioner. Would have opened a window if there were one, but alas there was only a double door to the balcony, and too many bugs would have come in. I DO NOT RECOMMEND.
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Date of stay: July 2010Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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"Rooms at the back on a quiet street are probably less expensive but on the front you have a garden and afternoon sun."Read full review
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Frequently Asked Questions about Manoir d'Aix-les-Bains
Which popular attractions are close to Manoir d'Aix-les-Bains?
Nearby attractions include Arc De Campanus (0.4 km), ValVital - Thermes & Spa Chevalley Aix-les-Bains (0.3 km), and Chocolaterie Sebastien Fautrelle (0.5 km).
What are some of the property amenities at Manoir d'Aix-les-Bains?
Some of the more popular amenities offered include an indoor pool, a fitness centre, and a spa.
Is parking available at Manoir d'Aix-les-Bains?
Yes, free parking is available to guests.
What are some restaurants close to Manoir d'Aix-les-Bains?
Conveniently located restaurants include Restaurant LEO-PAUL, Le Sens Unique, and Restaurant Carthage.
Are there opportunities to exercise at Manoir d'Aix-les-Bains?
Yes, guests have access to an indoor pool and a fitness centre during their stay.
Is Manoir d'Aix-les-Bains located near the city centre?
Yes, it is 0.4 km away from the centre of Aix-les-Bains.
Are pets allowed at Manoir d'Aix-les-Bains?
Yes, pets are typically allowed, but it's always best to call ahead to confirm.
Does Manoir d'Aix-les-Bains offer any business services?
Yes, it conveniently offers a business centre, meeting rooms, and a banquet room.
Are there any historical sites close to Manoir d'Aix-les-Bains?
Many travellers enjoy visiting Le Prieuré et ses jardins (6.3 km) and Église paroissiale Notre-Dame (0.6 km).
Does Manoir d'Aix-les-Bains have any great views?
Yes, guests often enjoy the park view available here.