L'Etoile Bleue

2.0 star property
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Outdoor pool, pool loungers
Terrace/patio
Business centre
Reception
Lunch and dinner served, pool views

Reviews

6.6 out of 10

Popular amenities

  • Bar
    Bar
  • Pool
    Pool
  • Housekeeping
    Housekeeping
  • Air conditioning
    Air conditioning
  • Breakfast available
    Breakfast available
  • Parking included
    Parking included

Explore the area

Map
51 Route Jean Briaud, Merignac, Gironde, 33700
  • Château Pape Clement
    6 min drive
  • Hospital Haut-Leveque
    8 min drive
  • Château Haut Brion
    10 min drive
  • Bordeaux (BOD-Merignac)
    5 min drive

Room options

Comfort Double Room

  • 11 sq m
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Double Bed

Comfort Triple Room (2 adults and 1 child)

  • 14 sq m
  • Sleeps 3
  • 3 Twin Beds

Standard Double Room (Plus)

  • 11 sq m
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Double Bed

Standard Triple Room (2 adults and 1 child)

  • 11 sq m
  • Sleeps 3
  • 3 Twin Beds

Standard Double Room

  • 11 sq m
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Double Bed

Standard Triple Room (2 adults and 1 child)

  • 11 sq m
  • Sleeps 3
  • 3 Twin Beds

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About the area

Merignac

With a stay at L'Etoile Bleue in Merignac, you'll be near the airport, within a 15-minute drive of Place de la Bourse and Bois du Burck. .This hotel is 11.1 mi (17.9 km) from Cité du Vin and 2.5 mi (4 km) from Zoo Bordeaux-Pessac.

What's nearby

  • Château Pape Clement - 6 min drive - 4.7 km
  • Hospital Haut-Leveque - 8 min drive - 6.2 km
  • Grand Theater Opera National of Bordeaux - 13 min drive - 9.2 km
  • Place de la Bourse - 14 min drive - 9.7 km
  • Rue Sainte-Catherine - 14 min drive - 10.3 km

Getting around

  • Lycees de Merignac Tram Station - 5 min drive
  • Mérignac-Arlac Station - 7 min drive
  • Merignac Airport (BOD) - 5 min drive

Restaurants

  • ‪Burger King - ‬3 min drive
  • ‪Ciao A Tutti - ‬18 min walk
  • ‪Buffalo Grill Merignac - ‬4 min drive
  • ‪Au Bureau - ‬20 min walk
  • ‪Royal Buffet - ‬4 min drive

About this property

L'Etoile Bleue

Hotel in Merignac with a coffee shop and an outdoor pool
L'Etoile Bleue offers 72 accommodations with complimentary toiletries. Beds feature premium bedding. LCD televisions come with satellite channels. Bathrooms include showers.

This Merignac hotel provides complimentary wired Internet access. Business-friendly amenities include desks and phones. Housekeeping is offered daily and irons/ironing boards can be requested.

An outdoor pool and a children's pool are on site.

Children under 12 years old are not allowed in the swimming pool without adult supervision.

Stay in one of 72 guestrooms featuring LCD televisions. Complimentary wired internet access keeps you connected, and satellite programming is available for your entertainment. Bathrooms have showers and complimentary toiletries. Conveniences include phones and desks, and housekeeping is provided daily.
Take advantage of recreation opportunities such as an outdoor pool or take in the view from a terrace and a garden.
Satisfy your appetite at La Fleur de Sel, a restaurant which features a bar/lounge and a pool view. Dining is also available at the coffee shop/cafe. Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at the poolside bar. Buffet breakfasts are available daily from 6:30 AM to 9:30 AM for a fee.
Featured amenities include complimentary newspapers in the lobby, multilingual staff, and a safe deposit box at the front desk. Planning an event in Merignac? This hotel has 388 square feet (36 square meters) of space consisting of conference space and meeting rooms. Free self parking is available onsite.
Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 6:30 AM and 9:30 AM.
La Fleur de Sel - Overlooking the pool, this restaurant serves lunch and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.

Languages

English, French

Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in all rooms: Free wired Internet
  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

Parking and public transport

  • Free self-parking on site

Food and drink

  • Buffet breakfast available for a fee daily 6:30 AM–9:30 AM: EUR 7 per person
  • 1 restaurant and 1 coffee shop/cafe
  • 1 poolside bar and 1 bar

Restaurants on site

  • La Fleur de Sel

Things to do

  • Children's pool
  • Outdoor pool

Family friendly

  • Children's pool
  • Cots/infant beds (surcharge)
  • Outdoor pool
  • Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
  • Soundproofed rooms

Conveniences

  • Free newspapers in reception
  • Front-desk safe

Guest services

  • Daily housekeeping
  • Front desk (limited hours)
  • Multilingual staff

Business services

  • Conference space (388 square feet)
  • Meeting rooms

Outdoors

  • Garden
  • Pool sunloungers
  • Terrace

Accessibility

  • If you have any requests for specific accessibility needs, please contact the property using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
  • This property does not have any lifts
  • Wheelchair-accessible (may have limits)

More

  • Smoke-free property

Room amenities

Bedroom

  • Air conditioning (climate-controlled)
  • Cots/infant beds (surcharge)
  • Premium bedding
  • Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)

Bathroom

  • Free toiletries
  • Private bathroom
  • Shower
  • Towels

Entertainment

  • TV/satellite channels
  • LCD TV

More

  • Connecting rooms available
  • Desk
  • Iron/ironing board (on request)
  • Phone
  • Soundproofing

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 2:00 PM; Check-in end time: 11:00 PM
Late check-in subject to availability
Minimum check-in age: 18

Check-out

Check-out before noon

Special check-in instructions

The front desk is open daily from 9:00 AM - 11:00 PM
Front desk staffed during limited hours

Access methods

Front desk (limited hours)

Pets

Pets not allowed (service animals are welcome, and are exempt from fees)

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome
Rollaway/extra beds are available
Cribs (infant beds) are available for EUR 12 per night

Payment types

Important information

Fees

You'll be asked to pay the following charges at the property. Fees may include applicable taxes:

  • A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 1.44 per person, per night. This tax does not apply to children under 18 years of age.

We have included all charges provided to us by the property.

Optional extras

  • Fee for buffet breakfast: approximately EUR 7 per person
  • Crib (infant bed) fee: EUR 12 per night
  • Rollaway beds are available for an additional fee

The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts credit cards; cash is not accepted

We should mention

This property does not have elevators
Cash transactions at this property cannot exceed EUR 1000, due to national regulations; for further details, please contact the property using information in the booking confirmation
The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation
Children under 12 years old are not allowed in the swimming pool without adult supervision

National rating

This property has received its official star rating from the French Tourism Development Agency, ATOUT France.

Property is also known as

L'Etoile Bleue
L'Etoile Bleue Hotel
L'Etoile Bleue Hotel Merignac
L'Etoile Bleue Merignac
L'Etoile Bleue Bordeaux/Merignac, France
L'Etoile Bleue Hotel
L'Etoile Bleue Merignac
L'Etoile Bleue Hotel Merignac

L'Etoile Bleue Reviews

Reviews

6.6
Rating 10 - Excellent. 19 out of 241 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 86 out of 241 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 87 out of 241 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 33 out of 241 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 16 out of 241 reviews" "

6.6/10

Cleanliness

7.4/10

Staff & service

6.4/10

Property conditions & facilities

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

OnKwok Roger

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good place to stay
Easy to reach, with parking area, can’t as for more.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2018

8/10 Good

Jessica

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
If you are on the road its ok to stop here
It is a good roadhotel if you are going south

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Not very close to airport
Expedia agent told me that the hotel was 1/2 mile from the airport which is a lie. The hotel was more than three miles from the airport and cost me $40.00 euros round trip. It was not very good information. According to my experience in the past, Expedia always send me to very far away hotel/condo accommodations. My experience when went to Munich, Germany last year, the hotel was outside of Munich...... The agent told me that he did not know where the center of Munich was....... I think you should inform your agents better. They are very polite but don't know much about the distance where the hotels are from airports to center of the city.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2018

8/10 Good

ERIC, Bexhill-on-Sea

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
A perfect place to stop overnight - UK to Spain
We stayed here on our drive down from the UK to Benidorm, Spain. We had wanted to take a different route this time, by travelling down the West coast of France. This hotel is on the main ring road around Bordeaux and about halfway on our trip. So it made a great place to make an overnight stop. We arrived mid afternoon, so had plenty of time to sit out on the terrace and enjoy a few glasses of wine. In the evening we had dinner in the restaurant, overlooking the pool, which was very pleasant. The rooms are like USA style motel chalets, set in blocks about the grounds, with plenty of parking spaces next to the rooms. The rooms themselves are getting a little tired and dated, but were still clean and comfortable, with good TV and air-con. As a budget hotel, this made the perfect place to stop overnight on our way to Spain.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Room was small but clean. Checkin and checkout very efficient. Plenty of parking. Staff very pleasant and made a big effort to help and communicate.

8/10 Good

Alan, Bronx, NY

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very good, comfortable place to stay.
I arrived there from the airport, after a long two day journey with a layover in Lisbon. I just wanted a peaceful place to crash when prices in Bordeaux were very high because of a Euro Soccer game that happened to be in town. The room was clean and faced a rear garden, which was nice. There was also a very good "menu du jour" for $20 at the restaurant, which was great. It was a fine place to stay for a night before taking the M01 bus downtown.

4/10 Poor

Leila, U.K.

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Terrible mattress
staff were helpful and the breakfast was fine but the mattress was so terrible I barely slept. There was only 1 towel for 2 of us so we had to reuse the 1 towel! We also booked the hotel as it had a pool but the pool was closed and was totally run down. The chalet style rooms had very little sound proofing and i was also woken by people returning to their rooms arguing and swearing. We told reception and said we were checking out due to this and they did refund the cost of breakfast but not the cost of the second night as we had booked on the Internet on hotels.com

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Never again
Not a nice hotel looks nothing like the pictures. More like a motel next to a busy road..

8/10 Good

daniel, Bangor

Liked: Staff & service
Wales won.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Room comfort
Excellent restaurant easy autoroute access
A Motel, not a Hotel. Positives: V cheap, easy access for transit through Bordeaux, surpringly good part open air under cover with outside grill and good bar restaurant, although service a little slow, our tiny double room was freshly decorated and the cleaning staff were meticulous and friendly. TV, parking outside front door, wi fi in restaurant area, parking outside front door. Negatives: Room 22 had an off putting and smelly brown carpet that we didn't want to walk on in bare feet or put luggage on. Otherwise this review would be 4 stars.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness
SO SO
Second stay at this hotel little disappointed with the room cleanliness ie it needed hoovering properly

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities

8/10 Good

Anna, Melbourne

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Lovely stay
Lovely room, airconditioned, reception very helpful. A bit out of the centre but easily navigated by car.

6/10 Okay

BPJ, LONDON

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
1 night stay
HOTEL BAR/RESTAURANT OUTDOOR SEATING WAS VERY GOOD, STAFF WERE HELPFUL, ONLY PROBLEM WAS HOTEL ROOM WHICH WAS VERY SMALL. WE WERE GLAD WE ONLY SAYED 1 NIGHT AS ANY LONGER WOULD HAVE BEEN MOST CRAMPED

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
OK if you're driving
I picked this hotel because it was close to the airport but there is no shuttle service and you have to get a taxi or public bus, which stops quite far from the hotel. So, unless you have a car, it makes no sense. Rooms are fine, bathroom is as big as the room. Service was acceptable. There is free wi-fi and an average breakfast for 7 Euros.

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Excellent value and a lovely garden.
The hotel is set in a lovely garden and I was able to take my breakfast on the terrace by the pool. Although my room was not very large, it was very clean and had everything I needed for my stay, including free wi-fi . The staff is very friendly and helpful. The restaurant has a good selection of daily dishes for lunch and dinner and the continental breakfast buffet is well supplied (croissants, yoghurts,juices...)Excellent value!

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness
comfortable stay for one or two
excellent breakfast buffet no swimming pool available (repair needed) no dinner on week-end extra bed very small

6/10 Okay

Cp12, Leeds

Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort
Very basic but good for the price
The hotel is situated in an industrial area. Motel like layout which I liked. Restaurant was very cheap for dinner but you get what you pay for. All in all nothing special but ok for a couple of nights if you want to visit Bordeaux.

6/10 Okay

Mag, NY, NY

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Good deal, convenient, kind staff. Very no-frills
When my flight out of Bordeaux got cancelled, I had to find a hotel last-minute -- on a Friday night in early August. Thankfully, L'Étoile bleue had a room left. The reception staff is kind and accomodating, very down-to-earth. The hotel itself is clean, simple, straightforward: I had a big room with no carpeting (which in some ways is preferable... easier to keep clean) and a queen-sized bed and a table and a chair and a wardrobe and a back patio... All for 60 euro/night. The room was clean, the bed comfortable enough. Expect convenience, not luxe. (A taxi from the airport at 8pm on a Friday cost 16 euro, fyi.)

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Bad conditions, But service, not to bad

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

8/10 Good

Peter, Provence

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Good location
The room was small for two people but manageable. The restaurant had what we needed and the quality was good for the price. The staff were very friendly and helpfull.

2/10 Terrible

family group, Jsy

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Rundown hotel too far away from local amenities.
They messed up our booking saying Expedia always forget to advise them. Tried to charge 30 euros more or asked us to leave. After leaving I went back to have them draft a letter saying we had arrived but no reservation and they suddenly found the reservation. Room was tiny, with a wooden external wall with a gap in it. Wifi did not work in the room and water was cold. When I mentioned this to reception they said it was because they were busy. There must be many better motels nearby at a better price. Website info should be reviewed.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very Good
Very nice place, a little far from the airport but very nice staff and good room with a great bed.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
nice break on trip
nice place to make a stop, reception every helpful, rooms clean but basic, hotel used by a lot of workmen on overnight stays, food excellent but waitress not, quite grumpy, nice to sit outside and eat, breakfast ok