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Georges VI vs Hotel du Palais Biarritz
Georges VI and Hotel du Palais are both rated highly by those who travel for a living. Overall, Hotel du Palais ranks significantly better than Georges VI. Hotel du Palais scores 93 with endorsements from 5 reviewers such as The Telegraph, Oyster and Travel + Leisure.
Georges VI
Oyster
10 Rue du Port Vieux, 64200 Biarritz
From $113 /night
- Pet Friendly
- Bar/Lounge
- Free Internet
- Room Service
- Laundry Service
- Concierge
Oyster
Mid-Range
"This quaint mid-range family-run hotel features clean and cozy English-style interiors and exteriors, including an inviting lobby bar area as well as a charming courtyard patio."
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Hotel du Palais Biarritz
Oyster
Travel + Leisure
The Telegraph
Hideaway Report
Condé Nast Traveler
Lonely Planet
Lonely Planet
Michelin Guide
1 Avenue de L'Imperatrice, 64200 Biarritz
From $448 /night
- Pet Friendly
- Hot Tub
- Free Internet
- Room Service
- Laundry Service
- Concierge
Oyster
Luxury
"Hotel du Palais is a four-and-a-half-pearl luxury hotel on the Bay of Biscay overlooking Grand Plage beach, a short walk from Biarritz shopping and dining."
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Travel + Leisure
"A relative safe-haven from the throngs of tourists, Hôtel du Palais offers an escape from the outside world."
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The Telegraph
8.0
"Old World elegance and grace in an unmatched, seaside setting."
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Hideaway Report
95.0
"Seaside mansion-hotel housed within a lavish red-brick villa built in 1855 by Emperor Napoleon III for his wife, Eugénie."
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Condé Nast Traveler
Readers' Choice Award
"This oceanfront villa, built in the Basque Country in 1855 as the summertime retreat of Napoleon III, is something everyone should experience."
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Lonely Planet
Top choice
"Biarritz' most glam address is this sumptuous hotel in a grand, historic building fronting directly onto to Grand Plage."
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Lonely Planet
"Dominating the northern end of the Grande Plage is the massive 19th-century Hôtel du Palais, built for Empress Eugénie and now a luxury hotel – complete with its own gate guards"
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Michelin Guide
"Biarritz’s grande dame is the Hotel du Palais, the summer residence of Napoleon and Eugenie, an ostentatious brick-red and beige palace standing at the water’s edge, offering incomparable views up and down the rugged Basque coast and out into the Bay of Biscay"
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Unlike some grand hotels, there’s not a sub-standard room in the house, unless you’re extremely choosy about needing the highest ceilings and largest windows (in that case avoid the rooms in the eaves).
