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Hotel Mercure Bayonne Centre Le Grand Hotel vs Hotel du Palais Biarritz
Both properties are highly recommended by expert reviewers. Overall, Hotel du Palais ranks significantly higher than Hotel Mercure Bayonne Centre Le Grand Hotel. Hotel du Palais comes in at 93 with approval from 5 reviewers like Lonely Planet, Travel + Leisure and Oyster.
Hotel Mercure Bayonne Centre Le Grand Hotel
Lonely Planet
Fodor's
21 Rue Thiers, 64100 Bayonne
From $99 /night
- Pet Friendly
- Bar/Lounge
- Free Internet
- Room Service
- Laundry Service
- Laundy Room
Lonely Planet
"This old building was once a convent, but when they ran out of nuns someone turned it into a hotel – the poshest in town."
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Fodor's
"Just down the street from the Château-Vieux, this reasonably priced Best Western property offers an old-world feel in a great location."
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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).
