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Hotel
de France et du Cheval Blanc, 6
quai du general de Gaulle tel 0247570244 fax 0247576954 Closed Nov 1 to March
15.
Coquettish
rooms, sound proof. The cuisine is simple but careful, and built around regional
products. Rooms for 31 € to 43 €. Menus for
10 and 23 €.
Le
Chaptal, 13
rue du Chaptal. tel 0247571446 fax 0247576783
Genuine
budget hotel. But the rooms are cute and during high season you must be half
board (1 meal obligatory). You’ll pay 32.50 to 35 €
for a double with shower and
WC. Simple cuisine. Very good ratio quality/price
Hotel
Lion d’Or, 17
quai Charles-Guinot tel 0247570023 fax 0247573804
Closed from December to mid-March.
Center
of town, near the chateau and pedestrian zone. If
you take your meals here you will do that in a décor reminding the old chateaux
and inns of other times. Rooms from 310 FF up. Good menus for 15.50 to 34.50
€. Sympathetic
brasserie-menu for 9.99 €.
Hotel
Bellevue, 12
quai Charles-Guinot tel 0247570226
fax 0247305123
Closed from
half-November to mid March. This hotel will ask you more in the summer than out
of season for it’s comfortable rooms. In low season a double goes for 45
€.
It’s located in the centre, near the bridge
Hotel
La Pergola
33
bis avenue de Tours tel 0247572479 fax 0247573804
On
a hill a little excentred this is a quiet hotel with with
simple rooms for 33.50-46
€. It has a swimming pool to relax after your visits.
Novotel,
rue des Sablonniers tel 0247574207 fax 0247304076
Like all hotels of this chain, you have all the comfort and modernity.
Well equipped you have rooms from 71-77.75 €. Certain rooms have a panoramic view
on the vallee de la Loire.
Hotel
Le Chateau de Pray, B.P.146 37400
Charge (a postal address) tel 0247572367 fax 0247573250- Closed from January to
begin February.
Go upstream direction Chaumont on the left bank and after 3 km you will wee the
hotel. The noblest families stayed during generations in this 18th
chateau on a hill overlooking the Loire. It has a ravishing garden. Interior
decoration tastefully designed respecting the original features, the dining room
for example. Doubles go from 485 to 790 FF. The chateau is one of the top in the
category ”Chateaux-hotels independants et hostelleries d’atmosphere”. You
can eat also with menus from 25 to 49.50
€. Book well in advance.
Gite
Rural:
Le
Buisson 37530 Limeray tel 0247301043.
The
village of Limeray is located 8km from Amboise in the northeast. Charming with a
lot of character, this gite proposes 7 comfortable rooms, 50 €
for a double
with bath, TV and phone. This small fermette-restaurant on a large lawn
overlooking the shores of the Loire, serves also a good regional cuisine. Menus
carte for 17 € (week) to 39 €
Chambre
d’hote:
Lucette
Jolivard,
2 clos la Gabilliere at Amboise . tel 0247572190.
Nice
house at the entrance of the forest with nice well equipped rooms (TV in every
room). You can use the swimming pool. Only 3 rooms for 41
€.
Chambres
d’Hote La Ferme des Landes (Netty Nelanger):
at Vernou-sur-Brenne 15 km east of Tours in the vallee de la Cousse tel
02475210930 fax 0247520888.
Another 15th
century farm. Comfortable and tastefully furnished rooms from 49.99 to 58 €
for
2, breakfast included. No meals.
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