Grand Hotel des Sablettes Plage

This is a really lovely hotel but there are so many mosquitoes! Between myself and my son, we must have gotten about 70 bites in 3 days. I travel extensively and I can’t actually remember ever getting bitten this badly as most hotels control their mosquitoes by spraying. When I was at the reception, I noticed all the hotel guest were covered in bites. It ruined the rest of our holiday. No matter how lovely the hotel is, I can’t recommend on this basis.

Was it a bad experience? No, for sure not. Was it an amazing experience? Not either. We had a room on the ground floor so no view at all. But we knew that in advance, so not a problem. The room was clean, but rather small. Mini-bar with water and coke were complementary, same for the coffee. Nice Espresso machine, but non-labeled cheap bad coffee 🤨 Outdoor swimming pool was small and sunbeds without any privacy. No access from the pool to the beach 🤨 Breakfast was too expensive for the offered choices. No dedicated gluten free section, no lactose free milk or yogurt 🤨 Bed was at Hilton standard, comfortable 😉 Next time I when I am in the Toulon area I will look for another hotel despite being HH member with 750K points

Beautiful building in a great location, rooms are nice and comfortable. The breakfast is ok at best, not a great selection and whole thing is a bit chaotic. However the biggest issue is the pool area. Firstly as one other reviewer highlighted there is no access to the beach from the pool. You have to get dressed and walk back through the hotel and restaurant. The bigger issue is the sunbeds. They are old, cheap and very uncomfortable with many of them starting to fray and rip. Not good by far for a hotel of this standard charging the rates they charge. It would not be a big investment to replace them with new sundbeds with comfortable cushions. We are in the main restaurant once, service was poor and the food was not great.

Very disappointing! It looked so promising, old classic hotel on the beach. Yet experience less enjoyable. To start with the plus, the hotel building is beautiful and the amenities in the room really nice, as were the cookies. And that’s it. The room was tiny, even to put on after sun I had to leave the bathroom to avoid bumping into the wall, no room to unpack suitcase, the shower minuscule, the gym only had cardio machines and sun beds (not on the beach) are not even included in the over priced hotel room. In addition we really did not like the Sablettes so left our room three days early to go to Sanary sur Mer / Bandol in a more comfortable hotel. No gesture made to offset the pre paid three night, but we did not expect that anymore either. If you really want a relaxing beach experience better to go elsewhere.

Reasons why this hotel needs to step up its game: 1. Staff genuinely would rather guests didn't exist. As seen by very short fuses and lack of any care in service. 2. The painfully slow wifi I'm currently using to write this review. 3. The lack of pride in appearance (the entrance feels like a service entrance, I see well dressed people confused at the chained gate to the restaurant every evening). 4. The rules. You cannot walk from the pool to the beach without being 'properly dressed' i.e. no swimwear. Yet there is nowhere to clean your feet before entering the hotel from the beach. Also, you are not allowed to turn the sun lounges by the pool to face the pool. Most of them face away from the pool towards a wall of greenery, which prevents you from seeing the beach. It feels strange to face away from the pool while sitting next to the pool, yet staff will not allow you to move the chair. 5. The breakfast is cold and unappetising. We gave up and went elsewhwere despite having paid in advance for it. Reasons why this is good: 1. If you have a sea view room, its lovely. 2. The ocean sounds great. 3. I liked the beach.