Margaret Hôtel Chouleur

We loved our huge room (and bathroom!) and the location was convenient to everything. The breakfast was top notch! We didn’t eat dinner at either restaurant but they both looked amazing. A couple of notes that kept it from being perfect: 1) 66 stairs to the third floor. Not an issue for us but could be for some people 2) one day the cleaning folks left our room unlocked after they cleaned 3) we had great towels at first but when they were replaced the quality of the new towels was sub-par 4) significant noise levels in the alley below overnight.

The only true positive...it is very well located in the city center. That being said, the city is not large so everything is walkable. The rest was not great. We stayed for 2 nights and booked the suite. It was large with high ceilings but that made it very hot in the room. We asked for fans twice but never got them. The blackout curtains didn't blackout anything so the heat streamed in all day and you were awake with the sunrise. The bathroom was separate from the toilet area which I do not like in hotels. The tub was also strange. It was slightly elevated above the floor but you couldn't tell that until you went to step out and almost fell. The hotel restaurant does not have menus in English. The waitress offered us no help so we got up and went to dinner somewhere else. Overall, it was fine but we would stay somewhere else if we go back to Nimes..

An amazing building right in the old town, spacious rooms in a wonderful setting. Would have been interesting to read more about the history of the building but we didn't find anything. We couldn't check in until 3, so the staff very kindly took our bags up to room. The decor in the rooms was quite gloomy, it needed better lighting, especially in wardrobe where it was impossible to see! Neither us nor the staff could get the overcomplicated tap to work on the bath, so they swapped us to another room, which was even bigger with a lovely sitting room. Despite it having the biggest bathroom I have ever seen, it only had a bath, no shower. Bizarre. Breakfast was good but little things like no milk, water or butter put out (obvs they came when we asked for them). None of these are massive things, but fixable niggles. I really hope they can improve as this could be a wonderful boutique hotel.