Brittany, France

Le Nessay

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If you haven’t entered any dates, the rate shown is provided directly by the hotel and represents the cheapest double room (inclusive of taxes and fees) available in the next 60 days.

Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (EUR246.28), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

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Style

Princess and the sea

Setting

Emerald Coast jewel

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Le Nessay looks like the opening credits to your favourite fairytale film: this red-brick, turreted castle crowns a yacht-backdropped peninsula. Let down your hair in a pastel-hued bedroom — scattered across the château and seafront outbuildings — or in the family-friendly private maison. The magic continues on outings to northern Brittany’s halcyon towns and beaches; it’s easy to wish upon a star at alfresco dinners on the restaurant’s terrace. And you'll live happily ever after…

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

17, including two suites.

Check–Out

11am; check-in, 4pm. Both are flexible, subject to availability.

More details

Rates at Le Nessay exclude breakfast (€28 each at the restaurant, €37 each in your room).

Also

The ground-floor Chausey Room is adapted for guests with reduced mobility.

At the hotel

Charged laundry service and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: TV, air-conditioning, Nespresso coffee machine, tea-making kit, minibar, bathrobes, slippers and Dyptique bath products.

Our favourite rooms

Each room at Le Nessay has a distinct charm, thanks to individually styled interiors, a host of locations and unique features. History buffs might bunk in a Minquiers Room, which is in the storied château and has a turret-set shower, or a coastal-cool Emerald Poterne Room, tucked away in the entrance-framing postern. Beach babes flock to one of the Annex Rooms, which are poised over the sandy shores, and you’ll quite literally feel like the king or queen of the castle in the Nessay Suite, with its clawfoot bath tub and turret-topped terrace overlooking the sea. For the run of the place, opt for pool-toting La Maison du Nessay, a six-bedroom country house that caters to bigger tribes.

Poolside

There’s no main pool here so dips at this seaside stay take place at one of two sandy beaches that border the peninsula. Only La Maison du Nessay comes with a private pool — open for leisurely laps from May to early September.

Spa

Head to the petite spa’s sauna before or after your bracing sea dip; or book into its treatment room for soothing massages or facials with organic, locally made serums and oils.

Packing tips

An appetite for all things Breton — breeze-kissed beaches, local seafood and nautical outings — and the appropriate kit to match.

Also

The hotel has partnered with nearby Dinard Golf, a historic 18-hole course with sweeping sea views and a charming club house.

Pet‐friendly

Pampered pets are welcome in every room for €30 each a night. See more pet-friendly hotels in Brittany.

Children

Welcome. The Annex Room and above accommodate children under-10 on a double sofa-bed or turret-set round bed for €50 each a night; there are also connecting options. Six-bedroom La Maison du Nessay caters to families with plenty of child-friendly kit.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

By the ceiling-reaching French doors for sunlight-bathed meals.

Dress Code

Breezy beachwear and — naturally — some nautical-nodding Breton stripes.

Hotel restaurant

We hope you can multitask because that’s what you’ll be doing at the hotel’s restaurant: admiring the sea view from the floor-to-ceiling windows while fussing over impressive dishes of local and seasonal produce. At breakfast, you’ll find Maisons Gourmandes’ talk-of-the-town pastries alongside savoury à la carte options, but you’ll want to save yourself for Sunday’s indulgent brunch, which lasts long into the afternoon.

Hotel bar

The hotel’s bar delights throughout the seasons: in cooler months, bag a sofa by the fireplace with a chai-infused margarita; come summer, gather on the sea-spying terrace for sunset with a Hugo spritz. You’ll also find a selection of homemade pastries and light bites throughout the day, plus afternoon tea and iced coffees are your post-beach pick-me-up.

Last orders

Breakfast is between 8am and 10.30am; lunch is from noon to 1.30pm, and for dinner, it's 7pm to 9.30pm. The bar opens Wednesday to Sunday from noon until 10pm for drinks (9.30pm for food).

Room service

You can order from the restaurant and bar menus to your door during kitchen hours.

Location

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Address
Le Nessay
Boulevard du Bechay
Saint-Briac-sur-Mer
35800
France

You’ll find Le Nessay on a beach-lined peninsula, which unfurls from Saint-Briac-sur-Mer, a quaint seaside town on Brittany’s northeastern coastline.

Planes

Rennes-Saint-Jacques Airport is just over an hour’s drive from the hotel; staff can arrange transfers with a local taxi company. Nantes Atlantique Airport is a two-hour drive away.

Trains

Rail routes from Paris and Rennes call at Saint-Malo station, which is a 30-minute drive from Le Nessay and staff can book a taxi to collect you.

Automobiles

You’ll want a set of wheels for taking in coastal towns, surf spots and Atlantic-facing beaches. The hotel has nearby parking with valet services for €12 a day.

Other

If you’d prefer to chopper in, you can land at Dinard–Bretagne Airport, which is a 15-minute drive away. Ferries from England dock at Saint-Malo, 30 minutes away by road.

Worth getting out of bed for

Less is more at Le Nessay, where days take on a suitably gentle pace. You can survey Salinette and Béchet beaches from your peninsular perch, before strolling down to them for a salty swim or watersports, such as scuba diving and kayaking. Catch a (wave) break at Longchamp beach, around the headland, where you can book in for surf lessons or hire boards from Surf Harmony. Staff can arrange boat trips to nearby islands or tell you the best local hiking trails. Avid golfers will want to tee up a visit to Dinard Golf, a clifftop course, founded over a century ago.

This corner of the Emerald Coast is studded with pristine coves and picturesque towns. You could take a day trip to walled city Saint-Malo, once the home to royally sanctioned pirates and now lined with boutiques and souvenir shops, or detour to Cancale for its top oyster market.

Local restaurants

You won’t be uttering the words ‘well done’ at Bistrot de la Houle: this intimate restaurant celebrates raw dishes, mainly in the form of ceviches, tatakis and tartares, some with a Thai twist. It may be named Le Rusty, but this contemporary, country restaurant is a well-oiled machine, with its garden tables, seafood platters and local flavours. San Sebastian is a lively tapas bar with kitschy tiled walls, guindilla-topped charcuterie boards and chatter-fueling sangría.

Local cafés

If Maisons Gourmandes was in East London, you’d find a queue of hipsters at its door, hungry for its hand-sized pains au chocolat, decadent pâtisserie and airy, exposed-brick interiors. This local bakery also partners with Le Nessay to stock their breakfast and cornucopia-like dessert buffet.

Reviews

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By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this historic castle in Saint-Briac-sur-Mer and unpacked their oyster shuckers and Breton stripes, a full account of their seaside break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Le Nessay in Brittany…

Once upon a time, enchanting Le Nessay was a family home; now this princess-worthy pad welcomes other clans through its château doors. The peninsula’s pine-lush park rolls out like a green carpet from the castle — an appropriately regal welcome.

Settle into the fit-for-a-king feeling at pastry-laden breakfasts and lavish Sunday brunches; chef Victor Betton’s dinners of seasonal plates are another noble feat. A bijou spa pampers with its sauna and restorative massages, or you can survey your kingdom (well, the surrounding Saint-Briac-sur-Mer scenery) from the turret-flanked terrace in the family-friendly Nessay Suite.

And just as it caters to all ages, Le Nessay shines in all seasons. Sure, summer is when the sea-gazing bar and retro-cabin-lined beaches come alive, as bronzed bodies bathe in the sunshine and water — but winter is just as spellbinding, bringing snow-dusted domes, rosy-cheeked coastal walks and fireside aperitifs. 

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