Hôtel de Londres

Visiting our family, in France, we stayed two days at the “Hôtel de Londres” in Fontainebleau. Our stay was just as in a dream and we enjoyed the high quality of the hotel, the amiability of the owners and of the devoted staff. Our room, number 8, was facing the castle and furnished with two, high standard comfortable King-size beds, a large bathroom with an Italian shower, entrance with separation door and all you could expect in such prestigious hotel. That without mentioning the outstanding noise immunity provided by the double glass windows and insulation making the room surprisingly quiet. We took our breakfast at the hotel, which offers a buffet and, if you like French pastry, we highly recommend the delicious croissants and “pains-au-chocolat” absolutely delicious. We also highly appreciated the amiability of the owners and their recommendations on sites to visit and restaurants. The overall hotel is charming, very well located and there is no doubt a place we highly recommend if you visit Fontainebleau. Thanks to all, at the “Hôtel de Londres” for contributing to make our vacation unforgettable.

A lovely traditional hotel with charming patrons. We woke up every morning looking directly at the beautiful Chateau. The room was great but a quite challenging manoeuvre in and out of the toilet with an inward opening door. Breakfast was a delight with personal service by the proprietor and had everything you could want, of the best quality. It has been in the same family for three generations and they strive to maintain the traditional atmosphere. They were so helpful and were really nice people. Only issue was the poor wifi in our room. Secure parking and convenient location for exploring the town. Would return without hesitation. Recommended.

Great location - right across street from Fontainbleau Palace. Also, just around the corner from many restaurants. Only reason for lower rating was response of older gentleman (messy white hair) at reception desk when we checked in, who stated we had not booked a reservation for car parking and what did we drive, a Rolls Royce that we couldn't use the public parking around the corner, we should go there. This despite there being only one car in their lot that night. I would have cancelled our reservation then and there but it was too late and we had had a long day of driving. Thankfully desk staff the next morning (different gentleman) went out of their way to tell us to move our car immediately to their lot and apologized for the rude treatment of the previous person.

We stayed four nights at this charming old world hotel. Our second-floor room overlooked the Chateau de Fontainebleau, directly across the street. There were two large, comfortable beds and a large bathroom, and good AC. We enjoyed a really lovely breakfast buffet with meats, salmon, delicious cheeses, fruits and croissants in the dining room each morning. What made our stay especially pleasurable was the most gracious host Bruno Columbier, who was very generous and knowledgeable with advice (in English) about restaurants and other suggestions for sightseeing. Highly recommended.

Very nice hotel, with good beds. Air con control was taken away from the room after the first night. Which was strange. Breakfast was ok, but I would expect far more for €16. It didn’t have a bar, but beer could be bought from downstairs. Although it would seem 2000 is too late and I was refused. The toilet in my room was a strange design to say the least, but if you needed to take a sample my toilet was great! My colleagues was what you would call normal.

Overall a pleasant stay evens for the rate charged, one could expect a lot more. The room we stayed at was adequate but there were a few issues that could be easily improved upon: the Internet was slow and it was impossible to stream movies, which was especially disappointing since the TV channels were almost all French! This was very disappointing. The TV itself was the size of an iPad and is something that is just not acceptable in this day and age. The air-conditioning was adequate but in the prevailing hot temperatures insufficient. Breakfast was good but the croissants are 'rationed' and you can have only one croissant per person...ridiculous! Other than that the hotel is nice even so I do not understand that the owners do not even offer aperitifs or a after dinner drink at the lounge.