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Hotel du Palais BiarritzvsLa Maison du Lierre
Both properties are recommended by professional reviewers writing for major publications. Overall, Hotel du Palais scores significantly higher than La Maison du Lierre. Hotel du Palais comes in at #1 in Biarritz-Bayonne with praise from 5 reviewers like Travel + Leisure, Lonely Planet and Hideaway Report.
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
OysterLuxury
"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." Full review
Travel + Leisure "A relative safe-haven from the throngs of tourists, Hôtel du Palais offers an escape from the outside world." Full review
The Telegraph8.0
"Old World elegance and grace in an unmatched, seaside setting." Full review
Hideaway Report95.0
"Seaside mansion-hotel housed within a lavish red-brick villa built in 1855 by Emperor Napoleon III for his wife, Eugénie." Full review
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." Full review
Lonely PlanetTop choice
"Biarritz' most glam address is this sumptuous hotel in a grand, historic building fronting directly onto to Grand Plage." Full review
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" Full review
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" Full review
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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).
La Maison du Lierre Lonely Planet
3 avenue du Jardin Public, 64200 Biarritz
From $64/night
- Free Internet
- Shuttle Bus
- Multilingual
- Meeting Rooms
- Conferences
- Beach
Lonely Planet "What a beauty this mansion is, impressively detached, with a balcony and park view from nearly every room (apart from the very cheapest, which overlook a neighbouring building)." Full review
