I had reason to visit Bordeaux for a one night stay recently and it is not a city to commend.
It may well be France's sixth largest conurbation but I doubt that the country is proud of it either.
Beggars, loads of them, not quite to Mumbai standards, but never the less enough to notice and eventually get annoyed at.
It also seems devoid of anywhere nice to eat, what I might call middle priced food. After an hour and a half of walking the streets peering into empty restaurants we eventually found one that served a half decent meal which with wine cost at least £35 and used ingredients that must have cost less than 10 even allowing 3 for the wine.
If for any reason you find yourself looking for an hotel and someone recommends Le Dauphin ask your self why?
Not since the days I lugged a back pack around the globe in the 1960's have I stayed in a doss house hardly better than the worst possible youth hostel.
Breakfast was rubbish and the only reason I went was because the fire alarm sounded constantly from 0720 for 10 minutes until someone arrived from a security company to switch it off.
By then I was too awake to return to my bed.
The staff, rather sensibly, do not live in the hotel and are absent from 5 30 in the afternoon until breakfast time. So they were little help and had it been a real fire I fear lives would have been lost.
Cheap yes but value for money? Defiantly no!
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