My husband and I stayed in Le Relais du Bois Saint-Georges in April 2011. I had tried to plan a cheap return trip to the lovely town of Saintes, where I had been an 'Assistante Anglaise' 10 years ago. After staying ONE NIGHT in Hotel Premiere Classe (which is anything but, but fine for what it is...), my husband couldn't bear it any longer and booked us into this hotel.

Upon arrival, we were welcomed warmly. They appreciated my use of French, but told us we couldn't check-in until 3pm (which we had anticipated and was not a problem!) We were able to store our backpacks in a safe area and return later. I'm sure we could have stayed to use the pool, etc, if we'd wanted, but I was eager to explore Saintes a little...

My husband, in his haste to flee the 'Premiere' Class, made a slight mistake when booking. He had clicked 'July' instead of 'April'. This posed absolutely no problem to the reception staff. What luck!

Our room: we stayed in 'Darjeeling', a large room with TWO double beds, long desk, plenty of wardrobe space and a nice sized bathroom decorated with bits of tea cups! The beds were so comfortable!

The pool is indoors, but only a row of sliding glass doors separate it from the big duck pond outside and a nice grassy area with loungers and seats. Music played all day and it was a delightful setting. The changing rooms beside the pool provide towels and toiletries. We had the pool and facilities to ourselves, despite it being Pacques (Easter holidays).

We did not dine at the hotel, so can't comment on that, but i heard from everyone I spoke to in town that it was an amazing restaurant (we were just on a bit of a budget!)

I cannot recommend this hotel highly enough and I will definitely be returning. There were only two bad points: -
1. It's technically in Saint-Georges, not Saintes, so a car would be best. Buses tend to stop running around 18:00.
2. I was chased by one of the swans around the pond! To be fair, that was my fault for getting too close to their eggs ;-)

This is my dream hotel, and I havn't even gone to sleep yet. I'm in my 50's travelling back from 3 months arthritic winter rest in the south of Spain, en route to Cherbourg, heading home to Ireland. I booked this hotel purely on the basis that it had an indoor swimming pool, over 9 months in advance. I am partially disabled due to the arthritis.
I drove up today from Carcasonne, totally knackered from too much walking around the Medieval City. On arrival, I parked in a disability parking space next to entrance. Seeing me approach, the Recetionist ran out, opened the door, grabbed my bags, and then amended my room to the ground floor.
After registering she lead me my room.
The security felt like I was entering Narnia. Surreal. And what luxery. Well, to me it was! Big Double bedded room, Bath/Shower. loadsa table space and connections for my Laptop. Free WiFi. I also had my own private door leading out to a small patio area in the garden.
After settling in, I wandered, and near at hand, just past the reception, was the dining area, and to the left was the indoor heated pool. Seen out beyond the big glass Dining Room windows was a large pond with a pair of swans preening each other.
Dinner from 7.30pm, so went to pool 6.15pm and WALLOWED. 4 days driving and touring washed away.
I've gotta tell ye, the meal I've just had was exceptional. Now, don't get me wrong. Initially I felt out of my dept here, not used to this kind of luxery. Being honest, my main meal when eating out is Soup, Steak and Vanilla Icecream. This "Gastronomique" frightens the hell out of me but, in truth, this was something else.
The service from the staff I would have initially described as Excellant, but I've had to down grade this to Very, Very Good, because they were surpassed by the FOOD which was EXCELLENT. And the supporting wine, a glass of house red with both the Entre and the Main,just gorgeous. Then, the glass of Sweet Wine supplied with the desert of Upside down Chocolate and Pear, with Ice Cream.........what does Homer say as he drools "uhhhHHHhhrrrggHHHrrggHHhhrrgg."
And so, I'm off to bed. Settle down and read a book. But, not before I've booked my wakeup call for 7am. Then off to the pool, followed by breakfast, before heading on up north, hoping my hotel tomorrow night is nearly as good as here. Goodnight!

We stayed here 4-1-11 is was very professional, the restaurant bistro was very good value for money at only 22 euros, good car park and safe for the car, excellent restaurant manager who spoke good English, pool area not very good and a let down as they had functions in there with people so you could not swim, bit disappointing that they all walk around the pool with there shoes on and no facilities, the open fire is fantastic, expensive tea at 5 euros, we had a baby and found the no lift a real pain lugging prams and things up the stairs, we also paid supplement for the child of 15 euros which is a bit steep..... We booked through booking.com and saved about 95 euros rather than through the hotel, it was 150 euros direct with the hotel and 22 euros for breakfast so total 194 for 2, we paid 100 euros with booking. Com including breakfast, I even called the hotel to match it but they said they couldn't :-/ .... Overall stay very good comfortable extremely freindly and welcoming staff....

We booked this hotel through Brittany Ferries when we booked our ferry tickets as we needed a one night stop before we reached the south of France. It is very conveniently situated, just off the main autoroute and was easy to find. We were very pleased with our choice, smallish room but very comfortable bed, lovely indoor swimming pool and quiet spot to sit outside to recover from the driving, with sunbeds available. They have a lovely garden with swans in the pond, just outside the restaurant. Very good meal and breakfast. Would definitely book it again.