Brittany, France

Les Bassans

Price per night from$218.22

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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 (EUR185.06), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

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Style

Sea-seasoned sophisticate

Setting

Garden-guarded clifftop

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Tide and time have shaped north Brittany bolthole Les Bassans into a boutique hotel awash with seafaring charm. The rooms, restaurant and spa all take in Atlantic views from an above-the-beach perch; dining is proudly local and seafood-leaning, and interiors echo seafoam and sand in palette with nuanced nods to nauticalia throughout. And with days filled with boat trips to the Sept-Îles or hiking the Côte de Granit Rose, you’re sure to relish your time aboard.  

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

25, including one suite.

Check–Out

Noon, and check-in is at 4pm. Both are flexible, on request and subject to availability.

More details

Rates include Continental breakfast served at the restaurant and featuring breads, pastries, cold cuts, fruit, yoghurt and eggs; gluten-free and vegan options are available.

Also

One Deluxe Room and one Junior Suite, both on the ground floor, are adapted for wheelchair access at Les Bassans. There are reserved parking spots if you have limited mobility and ground-floor communal areas, including public restrooms, are accessible. Please note that the historic nature of the villa means the lift is not suitable for wheelchair use, unfortunately making the spa and gardens inaccessible.

Hotel closed

Les Bassans opens seasonally from April to early November and then for three weeks over the Christmas period, with Thursday-to-Sunday opening at the start of the season each March.

At the hotel

Boutique, gardens and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: climate control, TV, Nespresso coffee machine, tea-making kit, minibar with complimentary soft drinks, free bottled water, bathrobes, slippers and organic bath products.

Our favourite rooms

Care in craft and nautical nods are common to all rooms at recently overhauled Les Bassans. Executive Rooms tempt with their generous proportions and deckchair-dressed balconies. If lighthouse aesthetics spark joy, the windowed Signature Suite is your sentinelled soulmate. For originality, drop anchor in the Deluxe Garden, which opens onto greenery from its brick-arch-framed private patio. Families should check out the three-sleeping Suite in the eaves, where skylights frame sweeping coastal vistas.

Spa

A light-filled space tiled in soft seafoam hues, the spa at Les Bassans follows the hotel’s lead, exploiting the serenity of its sea views through floor-to-ceiling windows and a spacious lounger-lined terrace. Alternate between spells in the sauna, hammam, sensory shower and barrel hot tub. Biarritz brand Alaena is deployed across two treatment rooms for holistic rituals and anti-ageing treatments.

Packing tips

All seasons are catered for at Les Bassans: you can borrow Aigle wellington boots and an umbrella from the hotel’s stash; similarly, when the sun shines, beach towels, beach chairs and cooler bags are also available on loan.

Also

If Valentine Benoist’s raw-styled ceramics whet your appetite at the restaurant, pick up a piece or two to take home from the hotel’s boutique. And set a reminder for 4pm, when the chef’s complimentary snack du jour is served (and hastily devoured).

Pet‐friendly

Your dog is welcome to join you at Les Bassans at no extra charge, and a bed, bowls and treats are provided. You can book any room with your pup in tow, but we wouldn't recommend the top-floor Suite, Signature Suite or Classic Rooms. See more pet-friendly hotels in Brittany.

Children

Welcome. The Junior Suite and the Suite each sleep up to three; beach toys, board games and welcome amenities for juniors are provided, and babysitting can be arranged with notice for an extra fee. Smiths aged 13 and older are charged as adults.

Sustainability efforts

Sustainability was the north star for Les Bassans' meticulous renovation, from the choice of materials (FSC-certified oak, natural hemp-fibre panelling) to the details of its design, with the aim of achieving BREEAM certification. An advanced building management system means energy consumption can be monitored in real time, and water-saving measures are in place, too. Organic bath products are in full-size recycled-plastic containers and topped up with canned refills, and the water in your room comes in glass bottles. Recycling bins at reception and around the grounds are part of a wider waste management programme in place at the hotel.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

Much as we admire the dining room’s deco-inspired lines, cabin-like wallcoverings and shoreline palette, tables beside the floor-to-ceiling windows nearest the sea have our heart.

Dress Code

You can leave your sailor suit at home, but channelling the glitz of a Thirties voyage aboard an oceangoing liner with beaded pieces, pastel silks and drop-waisted dresses for dinner feels on point. You’ll want sunglasses for those dazzling sunsets, too.

Hotel restaurant

Shining a light on Brittany’s mer-and-terre larder, Restaurant des Bassans has an open kitchen, where you can watch the brigade plate up artful reinventions of Breton classics. Dining here leans into an abundance of seafood (put oysters top of your list) but also celebrates the area’s farming heritage with prime cuts and no end of dairy. The à-la-carte menu is modest in choice but fine-tuned to the season. For breakfast, cherrypick traditional options such as charcuterie and fresh-baked bread, salted-caramel-drizzled crêpes or fruit with creamy local yoghurt.  

Hotel bar

Bar des Bassans rubs shoulders with the restaurant and its decor is similarly inspired, with nostalgic flourishes that conjure the glamour of a yesteryear ocean liner. The hotel has declared its cocktails to be an ‘iodised voyage’ and we’re happy to set sail for original mixology that leans into saline and citrus kicks; try a cocktail ‘Granit Rose’, dosed with Breton gin, rosé cider, strawberry syrup, mint and lime. 

Last orders

Breakfast is served from 7.30am until 10am; lunch runs 12.15pm until 1.45pm, and for dinner it’s 7pm until 9pm.

Room service

When the restaurant is open, the full cohort of dishes can be whisked to your room; outside of these hours, you can order from a selection of snacks.

Location

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Address
Les Bassans
67 Chemin de la Messe
Perros-Guirec
22700
France

Les Bassans perches on a scenic clifftop beside Plage de Trestrignel in Perros-Guirec on north Brittany’s Pink Granite Coast.

Planes

International fliers have two options — either Brest Bretagne Airport, around a 90-minute drive from Les Bassans, or Rennes Bretagne Airport, which is closer to two hours away by car. Staff can arrange private transfers from both for an extra charge.

Trains

The closest railway station for Les Bassans is Lannion, which is served by connections from Saint-Brieuc or Rennes, as well as some direct trains from Paris-Montparnasse. Private transfers can be arranged for an additional fee.

Automobiles

Although boat trips and cliff walks are likely to dominate your time here, a car will be useful for exploring further afield in this mer-and-terre pocket of Brittany. Les Bassans has a free carpark with electric-vehicle charging.

Other

Roscoff ferry port is around 90 minutes’ drive from Les Bassans; Saint-Malo is closer to two hours away by car.

Worth getting out of bed for

There’s no doubting the star of the show at Les Bassans, where the ocean shapes everything from colour schemes to cocktail lists. High on your to-do list will be a bracing hike along the Sentier des Douaniers — not to collect taxes, as the trail’s name suggests, but to stockpile postcard memories of the coastline’s towering pink rocks on the Côte de Granit Rose. Dotting the horizon is the Sept-Îles archipelago; staff can arrange boat tickets to ferry you across for fly-bys of its sizeable seabird colonies, including northern gannets (the hotel's namesake bird) on Île Rouzic. Flanked by granite and garnering gongs for its good looks, the pretty village of Ploumanac'h is a 15-minute drive from the hotel. 

For refuelling, head into Perros-Guirec and indulge in crêperie- and boulangerie-hopping to track down greatest-hits galettes and buttery kouign-amanns (Breton pastries). As the carb-slump kicks in, the beach at walk-away Plage de Trestrignel — a classic sandy cove sheltered by a giant’s bite of rugged cliffs — is your scenic recovery spot. 

Local restaurants

Galettes are the speciality of contemporary crêperie Gwinizh Du in Perros-Guirec (its name means ‘buckwheat’ in Breton), where plates that are proudly low on food miles are prepped in an open kitchen, and invention extends to a penchant for ferments. In Trégastel, at Auberge de la Vieille Eglise, pilgrims worship precisely plated cuisine inspired by nature and regional tradition, either à la carte or in a choice of set menus.  

Local cafés

Petite Church Café in Perros-Guirec is attached to a boutique enterprise and peddles modern brews, including matcha lattes and seasonal caffeine creations, alongside more traditional coffees.  

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 storied coastal escape in Perros-Guirec and unpacked their kouign-amanns and handcrafted ceramics, a full account of their Côtes-d’Armor break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Les Bassans in Brittany… 

As surely as the ocean salt will season your sandals, Breton culture infuses every aspect of sojourns at Les Bassans. This story of belonging begins with this sustainability-minded hotel’s restoration from early 20th-century Villa Le Sphinx into an upscale retreat worthy of Le Fontenille’s stellar collection.  

Breton homewares brand Ker, whose furnishings are inspired by the Atlantic, features throughout. Walkways have been crafted by Gwilenour, mosaic experts who transform dredged marine sediment into unique paving. And handcrafted serveware by local ceramicist Valentine Benoist brightens restaurant tables.  

Staff are attentive and knowledgeable, as able to recommend a crêperie in Perros-Guirec as they are adept at explaining hiking routes along the Côte de Granit Rose. And you can taste the pride in provenance at Les Bassans restaurant, where tales of terroir unfold across feasts of reinvented classics and cocktails are mixed with sea-inspired ingredients. It feels only fitting to raise a glass to the ocean.

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