Can anyone recommend a nice hotel with very nice restaurant nr Calais/Boulougne

[CountessDracula]

Pref somewhere fairly glam. We are going for my bday weekend, staying in a small place with really good restaurant for the first night, would like something really lovely for the second night. Must have a restaurant on site or be in small town or village with a v good restaurant!

TIA

How about Le Touquet?

The Westminster there is very nice and there is an extremely good restaurant across the road but veyr pricy. Or in the town - 500m walk there is a wonderful fish restaurant which is extremely good value for the quality of the food. They do a wonderful plateau des fruits de mer.

Le Touqet is wonderful for walking around - lots of lovely shops and art galleries!

But not exactly a village...

We stayed here for MIL's 60th (8yrs ago) nr St Omer, so a shortish drive from Calais . As far as I remember (I was 5 months pg at time so my memory may not be 100% accurate) it was very nice and the food was good.

The Chateau de Montreuil. Absolutely fantastic. Can still remember some of the food three years on and the wine wonderful.

About 30 minutes from Boulogne down the A16. Montreuil itself is a lovely small town with a beautiful walk around ramparts.

Liked it so much we bought a house a few miles down the road and now live here.

If ds ever sleeps more than four hours consecuticely we are going there to celebrate.

Happy birthday.

four hours consecutively would be even better.

ahem.

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Thanks everyone will show these to dh

I had looked at the Chateau de Montreuil as we are staying v near there on the first night, however their website is so bad that I had given up! Will revisit

Any more?

Small places particularly welcomed

have just looked at the website and it is terrible.

such a shame as it is a lovely place.

it really puzzles me that even posh places round here have English pages on their websites but don't get someone to check it over. that's not the only problem with that website, though. Think they have been seriously ripped off.

Still can't recommend the place itself highly enough. We've just been discussing it and wondering whether we can inveigle one of our mums out to babysit so that we could go at Christmas.

OOOOh please can anyone think of any cheapish places near Calais, hotel with good restaurant nearby - we are about to get a night away (2nd since ds was born 4 years ago and 1st since dd was born 18 months ago)

Le Bristol, in Le Touquet is v. nice

CD, La Chartreuse du Val St-Esprit, less than an hour's drive from Calais.

It's on the website www.esprit-de-france.com

It's own site is www.lachartreuse.com

I've stayed there and can recommend it.

Enjoyed Tilques (but get a room in the old hotel, not newer rooms), Chartreuse du val st esprit (pref not top floor in eaves) - close to Lille, and love le touquet. Don't go to chateau la motte fenelon - it was vile. Service bad, smelt of damp, mil made ill by food, etc etc, also on edge of council estate. Love Le Touquet too.

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Countess, have you looked at Alistair Sawday's site? Hang on.

Special places to stay I once booked a Normandy b&b having bought a Sawday book on the ferry and it was as he said it was, lovely.

we went to le touquet this summer - it was good but not as good as I expected. The beach is long, sandy and gorgeous but it gets very very windy (as it's quite exposed). There are some lovely shops and a few good restaurants but there were loads of Brits there and the whole place felt quite touristy. If you're looking for something villagy, then I think le touquet will probably be too big - having said that, if you are going out of season, it will probably be much quieter and nicer.

Thanks www, i checked his but he had nowt

I have heard good things about this place, but no personal experience: www.hotelclery-hesdin-labbe.com/

We always go \link{http://www.hotelclery-hesdin-labbe.com/here} when we go over for shopping. It's about 20mins south of Calais. The restaurant is lovely and the staff very friendly. Very quiet. Would recommend here for your first night and then drive to Le Touquet (about 1/2 hr away and stay at the Westminster as Soapbox suggested.

Ohh - crossed posts - link didn't work but it's the place janinlondon suggested.

Hotel Clery

Great minds etc etc! I've always wondered if the bedrooms could accommodate a child as well....?

Hotel Clery has some "suite" rooms separate from the main building (but very close) which can accomodate children.

La Chartreuse du Val St-Esprit has gorgeous huge family rooms on the ground floor