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Hotel de l'Ocean - Biarritz vs Hotel du Palais Biarritz
Both Hotel de l'Ocean and Hotel du Palais are rated highly by expert reviewers. Overall, Hotel du Palais scores significantly higher than Hotel de l'Ocean. Hotel du Palais comes in at 93 with praise from 5 reviews such as Travel + Leisure, Hideaway Report and Lonely Planet.
Hotel de l'Ocean - Biarritz
Oyster
The Guardian
9 Place Ste Eugenie, 64200 Biarritz
From $85 /night
- Pet Friendly
- Bar/Lounge
- Free Internet
- Concierge
- Restaurant
- Multilingual
Oyster
Mid-Range
"Hotel de l’Ocean is a well-located hotel with a modern France-meets-New-England style."
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The Guardian
"The excellent Hotel de l’Océan, on a quiet square about 50 metres from the beach, has room-only doubles from €139"
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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).
