Grand Hotel des Bains

Facilities

• Unlike most hotels, the indoor salt-water swimming pool here is long enough (18 metres) to thrash out some decent lengths, with wonderful views over the bay to boot
  
  
• The hotel's spa offers beauty treatments, massages and thalassotherapy treatments which use algae and mud-based products to tone and detoxify. The crème de la crème is the 'Elixir des Bougies', an indulgent massage whereby you are surrounded by scented candles and then massaged with their warm wax. There’s also a hammam (steam bath) which is open from 5-8pm for adults only
  
  
• The hotel runs 5-day spa packages and occasional yoga courses
  
  
• The garden is the perfect place to empty your mind, especially in May and June when the roses run riot; it was while sitting in the lime-tree walk that van Lier first fell in love with the place
  
  
• The cosy bar, with its parquet floors and log fire, feels as relaxing as your own sitting room - without the chores
  
  
• If you have your own laptop, there is free WIFI access
  
  
• It’s not just the paintwork that’s green - many of the hotel’s policies are too: lightbulbs are low-energy and most of the veg is home-grown and organic

When to go?

Any time of year, depending just how quiet you want it and what you want to do. Obviously it gets busier in the peak months of July and August, but it’s never noisy. For spa treatments, blustery coastal walks and total silence, winter is perfect. Swimming and watersports are generally possible from mid June to mid September.

Features include:

• Restaurant
• Room service
• Bar
• Walk to restaurants (offsite)
• Garden
• Guest lounge
• Internet access
• Indoor pool
• Spa treatment rooms
• Steam room
• Meeting rooms
• Function facilities
• Disabled access
• Pets welcome by arrangement
• Off street parking
• Airport Transfers