Hôtel Mercure Antibes Sophia Antipolis Bewertungen

Great pool area with loungers and sun and shade areas. Staff friendly. The standard rooms are functional, but lacked basics like a safe and minibar. Do not disturb signs on the door were just ignored by housekeeping - every day, despite telling the house keeping every day & reception that housekeeping was not needed, staff still came in the room to clean. With work sensitive material in the room that was very frustrating. On check in reception staff asked whether housekeeping was required and if not a donation is made to a children’s charity. I asked for the donation to be made - but it may be that if a room is not cleaned the housekeeping do not get paid. If that is the hotel policy they should explain that as it is a very unfair policy on housekeeping staff. The bar area is very nicely decorated with comfortable seating both inside & on the terrace, but the bar prices are shockingly high. A bottle of sparkling water was €10, beer €9 and -€5 for a coke. Unsurprisingly every night the bar was empty. There is a local bus into Antibe - €1.50 ( have to pay cash) but the last bus returning to the hotel is at 20:00. A taxi from Antibe to the hotel is €40, Uber price is around €25. Hotel arranged taxi to Nice airport €90. The area surrounding the hotel is beautiful for walking and cycling. Antibe is a lovely traditional town with choice of restaurants and bars and beaches. It is totally different to glitzy Cannes which is just 10 minutes from Antibes on the train.