ibis Chateauroux

Poor
Traveller Type: Traveling as Couple
  : Breakfast okay bed was comfy
  : Bedroom curtains hanging off no curtain hooks on The main stairs from the Main Street was filthy and smelt of old cigarettes The equipment for breakfast old especially the fresh orange machine very slow

Pleasant
Traveller Type: Business Traveler

Wonderful
Traveller Type: Traveling as Couple

Very Good
Traveller Type:
  : Friendly staff

Very Good
Traveller Type:
  : Situation. Comfortable room.
  : Couldnt park as there was a market that blocked the entrance to the underground parking. Had to wait until after 7.30pm. Hotel Entrance is not the greatest and one escalator not working.

Fair
Traveller Type:
  : It was clean.
  : Entry during the evening was via buzzer system at Street level. We were left ringing the buzzer for about 15 minutes before the receptionist, who also seemed to be doubling as housekeeper, finally answered and let us in. We were concerned that the receptionist had left and that we might be stranded outside. Not a great system.

Very Good
Traveller Type: Solo Traveler
  : My room was the biggest Ibis room Ive ever stayed in and it also had a lobby as you walk in. I chose this Ibis as I was driving down through France on my own and Chteauroux was about 2/3 of the way through my journey, so an ideal place for my overnight stay.
  : I was travelling alone, in my Right Hand Drive English car, and it was a complete farce trying to access the -2 and -3 Ibis parking areas safely. Fortunately as I approached the main entrance from the street there was a pedestrian close by who was able to press the entry button for me. Then the farce started down on -2. Being in a RHD car meant I had to get out and walk round it to the press-button for the barrier. By the time I had got back in the car and driven round to the barrier it had come down again. I left the car in front of the barrier and walked back to the press-button but again the barrier had come down before I could pass. Ridiculous and totally unsafe! I managed to speak to the Receptionist who didnt understand my problem as he hadnt realised Id got a RHD car even though I had told him. I speak enough French to have made that clear. Eventually he told me to go down to -3 which I did. I registered and took my luggage up to my room and then he came down to -3 with me as I needed to show him the same potential problem with getting out the next morning. I could not access the press-button from inside my car and the barrier wouldnt stay up long enough for me to get through it. In the end he allowed me to go up to -1 and park in a designated space there and showed me where & how to drive out over the sensor pads, which I managed to do safely when I left the next morning. Whoever designed the press-button / barrier system did not make any allowance for a single (in my case widowed) person driving a RHD car alone. Surely I cant be the first person to have stayed there who had this problem. WHY CANT THE PRESS-BUTTON BE RIGHT BESIDE THE BARRIER?????

Disappointing
Traveller Type: Traveling as Couple
  : The property was quite central and easy to get to shops, restaurants etc.
  : The entrance was awful and looked scruffy as you enter from the street it is very unwelcoming. As you enter through the single door you are faced with a large flight of stairs, there is a broken escalator at the side which was not working and seemed as if it had been broken for quite some time. I had a different impression of Inis and to be honest I was very shocked.

Very Good
Traveller Type: Traveling as Couple
  : Breakfast is excellent
  : The elevator is noisy and keeps announcing each floor, in a loud voice...

Very Good
Traveller Type:
  : Well positioned and exellent secure car parking
  : ...... at leasr 5 of our party have had severe D&V upon return from France...... This may not of course have anything to so with the hotel, but worth mentionin gin case anyone else reports this issue.