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Small but clean room. Very decent breakfast served by the very friendly housekeeper who did her best to make our stay pleasant. Free parking. Be careful to book your restaurant carefully as there are not many of them in the area.

We stayed just one night at this hotel, chosen due to it being close to Beauvais airport. We arrived early afternoon and went to one of the restaurants opposite the hotel to have a late buffet lunch. It’s very clean and probably on a par with English mid-range hotel chains. We didn’t have breakfast. The receptionist booked an early taxi for us to the airport which arrived on time. Overall, a very reasonably priced hotel for a comfortable night’s sleep with a decent shower.

Word of warning - no restaurant or bar at all. Just vending machines with 3 or 4 sad sandwiches and some sad looking boxed salads when we arrived with 3 hungry children and adults looking forward to a beer after a long day. No alcohol at all. Nowhere nearby to get food or drink. Deliveroo pizza was all we could get and it was awful too. It never occurred to us to check that a hotel would have food, we assumed a restaurant and bar is a given especially when located miles from any other options. Nowhere to buy or get alcohol delivered. Rooms are tiny. Although there is a fan temperature control in the room you cannot change it. Have to trek down to reception- no phone or intercom - to get them to change it. Windows in vending room area were dusty when kids wipped their hand on it. Dust on ledges and walls in the room. A giant cockroach in the stairwell. Not the hotels fault but power in the area went off from about 9-12. No notice posted or info forthcoming from receptionist as to cause or likely length of the outage. We could not charge our phones obviously and with an early start were afraid to go asleep until we had power to ensure our alarms went off so we didn't even get a night's sleep. The kids ate their grotty pizza by the torchlight from our phone and went straight to bed as they could not watch a movie as they had hoped and no Internet of course. No drinks because vending machine out too. None of us could shower as there was no light to do so. After travelling we all felt dirty and desperately wanted to shower. If you do decide to stay here be aware that there is at least one other IBIS at the airport so be careful you book the one you want. The absolute worst place I have ever stayed. I felt very sorry for the one guy left there to run it on his own. Even before the power went out he had no working printer writing everything out by hand.

The hotel has quite a number of pluses: attractive, well-located building, smart modern interior, generally well-designed rooms… But there are some (mostly minor) negatives too. Finding your way into it by car through the one way system is difficult, as the obvious route is “no entry”. They had told me when I booked that there was a free hotel carpark. What they didn’t say was that there were only half a dozen places, though happily we got the last one. Otherwise, it wasn’t clear what the nearby long stay solution would have been. The welcome was average: they didn’t have the key ready despite my checking in online 2 days before and they needed prompting to produce the voucher for the Accor loyalty welcome drink. Also it was firmly only for the cardholder, not for his companion too, as in some more generous Mercures. There was a touch of meanness about the equipping of the room. One tea bag. No free water in the fridge – but a note inviting us to spend 7 Euros on a reusable bottle which they would then fill for us! (There are other ways of achieving “zero plastic”, eg glass bottles as in the Amiens Mercure or cartons and tins as in Clermont-Ferrand.) The tiniest of paper cups for making tea. (No wonder they thought one tea bag would do for both guests!) Only two plugs for charging things, though admittedly there were four USB points. Breakfast had the same sense of putting out as little as they could get away with and spreading it sparsely over too wide an area. There was an almost total absence of staff as well, so that when the inadequate supply of croissants ran out at about 8.20 it took a long time to find someone to ask for more and then, by the time they were baked, we had effectively finished. The layout of the provisions also defied any logic, with milk as far away from the cereals as the size of the room allowed! Overall though, the quality of what was on offer was fine. It was about 10-20 Euros a night more than some of the other Mercures that we use quite regularly, without much obvious justification, except that the Beauvais restaurants also seemed above averagely expensive for what they were too. Nonetheless, if Beauvais offered a decent restaurant or two (see separate 3 star review of Le Senso, widely regarded as the best in town) I would use it again as an acceptably convenient and comfortable stopover.

The hotel is in a small town, similar to a budget business hotel, there is no elevator, the hotel owner is very enthusiastic about moving luggage, the hotel service is still very good, in order to catch the morning flight will stay for one night, parking will stop at the hotel entrance public parking Location, after 8 am, you have to pay yourself, the hotel does not have breakfast service and catering, and you can find a place to eat nearby.