L'Hotel Palm Garavan in Menton

Friendly and helpful staff. Breakfast was good. Location is great. Room is ok. It needs maintance! Mold and dust in airflow sealing in the bathroom and next to sink. Spotlight in the bathroom is hanging out of its socket. Glass door to bathroom is difficult to close/open. It provides minimum of privacy.

I really wanted to love this hotel based on the reviews but we were left a little disappointed. The Good: We picked the hotel because we had a car and there was a parking option for the hotel. It was reasonable and safe which was great. The room was clean and average sized compared to European hotels. We got a discount rate so we didn’t have a balcony and our room looked at the back of the next building. Not complaining, it’s just what you get for budget. For breakfast there were 3 options which was nice as we tend to like something small and hate paying for food we won’t eat. We got coffee and a croissant for €3,50. The location is less than a 10 minute walk from old town and right across from the beach which is great. The not so good: The Wi-Fi. We were dependent on Wi-Fi for our trip and it kept dropping the entire evening. It was so bad that we ended up having to pay for one of our cell phones for a day so we could use it as a hot spot. The nightstands in room 505 were little glass shelves but one side of the bed didn’t have one so everything had to be set on the floor. The bathroom door is a pocket door but it’s more for the illusion of privacy than anything. Even when closed you can still hear someone going to the bathroom and from the bathroom, you can still see out. The ac didn’t really cool the room much. I think the lowest it would go was 24° but even then it still didn’t feel that cool. I travel a lot and I am coming off a 3 week stint in Europe so I stayed in a lot of places this trip and this was my least favorite hotel. We tend to give smaller places a chance and while it was clean and cheap, I think going elsewhere would have worked better for us.