Hotel Acapulco

The Hotel Acapulco comprises three floors of what were the servant's quarters in a beautiful bourgeois house well located near central Montpellier. It is about three minutes away from tramway line #1, and you can get to the train station and the universities in ten minutes or less on the tram. if you remember the maid's rooms in Downton Abbey then you will have a very good notion of what the rooms are like ; you climb up a narrow stairway (no elevator) to find sparkling clean, relatively roomy and airy for cheap (or even not so cheap) French hotel standards. However the rooms are quite austere. Mine overlooked the garden and was quiet, but the rooms which open up to the street probably have traffic noise until about 9 pm. People in the hallway were audible, but I did not hear voices in the neighboring rooms. The two double beds had decently firm matresses and good quality linens, but the mattresses were 5cm too short for me (I'm 175 cm. / 5' 9"). The closet had extra pillows and two good blankets, and the room had an AC unit. I'm not very demanding and would have been happy to have this quiet, clean room at an excellent price had the not the hot water gone south to about 25 deg. centrigrade when I awoke on the second morning. Not exactly cold but definitely not pleasant for a shower in November. Hot water returned an hour later, but I had to leave for an appointment by then. The receptionist was on duty until around 9 p.m. and she and the morning person were very personable. I don't eat breakfast, so I cannot comment on the food, but the dining room, while bright, is pretty austere as well. I was only able to book with an up-front payment. Don't know if I would stay there again unless future reviews report that the hot water is back, and I can get a double bed.

Auch unser zweiter Besuch im Hotel Acapulco hat uns von diesem liebenswürdig geführten Haus überzeugt. Wer sich an der veralteten Ausstattung nicht stört, findet ein sauberes Zimmer mit - in unserem Fall - gutem Bett und Aussicht in den Garten vor. Die Lage zur fußläufig erreichbaren Altstadt ist optimal, die Tram-Anbindung ebenfalls. Beim Abstand von 14 Jahren zwischen unseren Besuchen fanden wir dasselbe freundliche Personal und ein für französische Gewohnheiten üppiges Frühstück vor. Wir kommen gerne wieder bei unserem nächsten Besuch in Montpellier. Vielleicht sind dann auch die Balkonkästen bepflanzt, das würde dem Charme der alten Villa gut zu Gesicht stehen.