Hotel to break the journey to the Vendee

[PinkFondantFancy]

We'll be camping in the Vendee in the summer but because we've got quite young children, we're planning to do a hotel overnight on the way to and from Calais. Does anyone have any recommendations of where? Somewhere like Le Mans I guess? Can be flexible though for a nice place.

[Elizabeth267]

I booked Novotel Le Mans last week, never stayed there but reviews looked good and I need a secure car park as the car will be loaded to gunnels!

[PinkFondantFancy]

We were looking at that one too, mostly for the car park!

[jammietart]

We stayed the Mercure in Le Mans last week - it was miserable! But reasonably comfortable and a good secure rear car park .

[sauvignonismydrug]

We are staying in the libre hotel in orbec (south of Rouen) one way, and a B and B in bernay the other way; however I think the B and B is now full.

[Chchchchanging]

Rouen
Stayed there a few times
Novotel been good

[CountTessa]

We went to the formule 1 in Allençon. V basic but cheap, clean. A bit outside the surprisingly nice town.

[LikeASoulWithoutAMind]

We stayed overnight in the B&B hotel in Rouen. Cheap, comfortable but basic - good beds and shower and a mezzanine level with the kids' beds on. But really we arrived late, grabbed a pizza, went to bed. Got up, showered and were back on the road at 7am the next morning.

would recommend if that's your plan, for a more leisurely picturesque kind of stopover then it's perhaps not the thing

[helloalll]

The ibis styles in Bourges is fab- not sure if the location will work for your trip?