Novotel Perpignan Rivesaltes

I didn't pay for the room, work did..and it's clear the hotel was chosen based on price (cheapness) only for a mid 32hour journey travel break. To be fair the reception staff were pleasant and friendly. The room was clean enough (once the cleaners actually vacated your room....a colleague was checked into a room supposedly ready only to find *****ped bedding piled about the place and the room clearly still beong turned around . The shower was ok but took eons to run warm. The toilet in a separate cubical which was annoyingly small. This hotel is in the middle of nowhere.... .so if you are being dropped off and have no transport...its a work up to get somewhere that feels less in the middle-of-the- a desert . Thankfully there is an in house restaurant...but annoyingly the lunch/day menu stops at 7 when the dinner menu kicks in. The dinner menu isn't very inspiring for what it was....burger, or chicken or beef skewer, or a blognaose pasta....but once arrived the food quality was good enough. Its just a shame lunch menu didn't run through as it had more inspiring salads/poke bowls also. The utter saving grace of this hotel is the pool. Even if you aren't a swimmer. It provides a more pleasant area to sit by with a beverage and food tha otherwise a very barron flat expanse of nothingness. The hotel has no lift, and whilst only 2 floors tall, if you are lugging a heavy suitcase , being on the second floor is a bit dull...so ask in advance to be on ground floor if this poses an issue. All in all, as a pit stop its clean enough. As a vacation stop , there are I am sure more interesting places to stay. You get what you pay for in life...and for the money not spent on the room rate, this hotel does the job fairly enough.

My husband is convinced this is not a Novotel, possibly an Ibis but It had a Novotel sign and the room looked like a poor scruffy Novotel room. As ever, easy to find. However underwhelming arrival from front desk and up to room - no elevator be warned. We have used Novotels a lot when touring and this one was shabby and uncared for. Our room had the limited number of things you get nowadays in a Novotel room. The big disappointment, and I found it astoundingly so, was the restaurant. Usually there are some local items on the menu, always some decent French food and wine. The menu was like a children't snack bar menu. I ordered a Caesar salad and that arrived as a huge bowl of stuff - sweetcorn in a Caesar salad? They couldn't even get that right. Breakfast buffer was ok if a bit limited. I would not dream of returning and strongly advise anyone else to look elsewhere. We stayed at another Novotel on our trip which was fine so there is just something wrong with this place. The only things to be said for it is that it is easy to find and the wifi is good. Otherwise: AVOID.

Front desk lady very rude and unprofessional. Charged us again for our reservation, we asked her to please check with the main reservation center to confirm we had already prepaid months prior, and she said “I don’t care and I won’t call, you do it! “

It is a normal Novatel standard. But... The restaurant was not able to provide a hot evening meal. Only cold fare. Cooked breakfast was available. The staff including the waiters were very friendly. Does the hotel have a staff shortage problem?

When we arrived there was only one person on reception and she was quite busy We probably waited 10 mins to check in and she was a bit snappy saying she was on her own The room was a bit cramped and dated but clean & comfortable Perfectly acceptable for a night The pool area is ok The restaurant isn’t great , the staff are lovely but the food combinations weren’t that nice , I just think they’re trying too hard to be a gourmet restaurant when actually good simple food would be preferable Overall an acceptable place to stopover when driving from France to Spain and good location to the motorway

Hotel is very close to the motorway to Barcelona and as such it was our choice for the night! The hotel is a bit dated but all was clean and the staff was very friendly! The restaurant food was very nice and once again the staff was very nice! Good hotel for a quick stopover but maybe not for longer stays!