Need to know

Rooms

14, including seven suites.

Rates

€195–€380, not including breakfast, €25.

Check-out

12 noon. Earliest check-in, 2pm.

Facilities

Outdoor heated pool, spa with hammam, gardens, free WiFi throughout. In rooms: flatscreen TV, free bottled water.

Poolside

The outdoor pool is set in a walled garden.

Children

Cots can be supplied for €40, extra beds for €80. You’ll have to bring your own babysitter, though, and remind youngsters to beware the breakable objets d’arts.

Also

The beautiful walled garden makes a tranquil retreat in the heart of Nîmes with its palms, bougainvillea and birdcages. Pets are welcome for €20.

In the know

Our favourite rooms

With its green and purple colour scheme, stained-glass window by the bath and full-on chandeliers, the bold decor of Alick sets our hearts aflutter. Jannette feels lighter and brighter, with eggshell and black tones, and musical notation adorning the lampshades and long curtains. Both look out over the cloister. Double Deluxe Grisailles (named for its 18th-century chiaroscuro painting) and turquoise-ochre Junior Suite L’Orangerie have garden views.

Also

Classicists and Roman architecture enthusiasts will be in their element. Nîmes is littered with relics and ruins from the empire’s glory days, such as the amphitheatre, the Maison Carré temple, and the awe-evoking Pont du Gard, a drive out of town. Fashion-trivialists will already know how the city’s signature fabric, serge de Nîmes, gave its name to a certain workwear fabric…

Food & drink

Hotel restaurant

None: breakfast – starring home-made preserves and hand-picked fruit teas – can be served in any of the hotel’s salons, or outside.

Dress code

Refined but relaxed.

Top table

Secure a spot on the terrace in the walled garden, among the birdcages and bougainvillea.

Room service

None.

Hotel bar

Beers, wines, spirits and soft drinks are available from the salon’s honesty bar, between 10am and 11pm.

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