Novotel Avignon Centre

When we first checked in, the rest room was not cleaned and tables were full of dusts. The carpet was very dirty and dated and smelled. We can't sleep for two nights due to mosquitos! And we got terribly bites. Very disappointed.

Gute Lage, das große Badezimmer mit separatem WC sind für 2 + 2 Personen (Familien) optimal. Sehr gutes Frühstück (6h30 bis 10h). Parkgarage zu moderatem Tagestarif. Kurzum: alles prima

L’hôtel est idéalement situé. Le personnel est à votre petits soins. Les services sont d’une très bonne qualité. Quelques petits détails à revoir en ce qui concerne la préparation de la chambre et tout sera parfait.

This hotel makes you feel you are located in the heart of French country side, with its employees neither well-educated nor sufficiently civilised to deal with international clienteles. I am fluent both in English and French, with Asian origin (Japanese), a solo traveler having stayed in this hotel. The sub-conscious bias of the staff working in the restaurant made them not offering menu to me among a dozen of customers dining at the same time, which obliged me to walk over to the cashier to request for a menu. Young, poorly-educated, and talking-confident and loud staff members reluctantly opened the menu and awkwardly received my order of a glass wine. After all, I conversed with a couple of staff there with all my conversation held in French. I kindly requested them to treat customers equally despite their subconscious bias (and level of education) and the answer I got demonstrates very well the problem itself : "We are sorry, but you speak 'too much English', and that's why we thought we cannot communicate with you". This is a comedy of Francois Ozon that I will cite for the rest of my life in my anecdotes, as 1) I did not talk much with any of them in any language, before coming to the cashier, so I cannot talk with them 'too much English', 2) all the conversation I had with this female staff addressing on 'Too much English' was held in French. I had to ask her twice 'in which language am I talking now?' for her to acknowledge it was in French, without a word in English, 3) Novotel is an American franchised hotel and it is quite shocking the employees in the restaurant refuse to talk to the customers for the reason of 'Too much English'.

As result, although I adored their wine, old town and history, Avignon is one of the least sophisticated parts of France where you see quite savagely expressed 'indigenous' and 'traditional' almost 'tribal' culture of this region, a touch of European dark medieval age, where local people were busy killing witches. The wine tastes excellent here, but international conversation in NovotelAvignon with its employees will go quite shockingly basic and pre-modern, for any non-Caucasian travelers to be aware and prepared for.

J'apporte mon témoignage en tant que prestataire extérieur. Acces livraison facile de stationnement pour les livraisons . Personnel et responsable accessibles qui nous ont simplifier l'exécution de notre prestation.