Conrad K
August 24, 2024
On 5 June I booked a three night stay at the Belles Rives for this coming November. I received confirmation from the hotel and was debited a 50% deposit. On 31 July, I discovered, purely by chance, that the hotel will be closed for the dates of our booking. I received no warning from the Belles Rives. On 31 July, when I discovered the closure, they still took bookings until 1 November. Now the season has been shortened to 26 October. I immediately wrote to the hotel but did not get a reply until two weeks later! We have booked airfare to Nice because we had relied on our confirmation and would not have otherwise gone to the Côte d'Azur at that particular time. The hotel has made no apology, no gesture, no attempt at conciliation, nor offered compensation for this great inconvenience and disappointment and the fact that we booked airline tickets because we relied on their confirmation. After many emails back and forth in the course of an additional two weeks, the Belles Rives has now offered to transfer our booking to a four-star hotel in Nice. Not quite the same thing as the five-star Belles Rives or its location in Juan-les-Pins. To make matters worse, the room category we are being offered as a solution is one that faces a cliff wall two meters away. I am definitely not satisfied with this "solution." A month after our first email, we still don't have a satisfactory solution. We have previously stayed at the Belle Rives' sister hotel, the Hotel Juana, which has the same owners. We liked the breakfasts, staff, and service and were expecting a similar relaxing experience or better. We did not expect to be treated this way by a five-star hotel! So be prepared for unpleasant surprises if you book this hotel!