Nouvel Hotel, Oyonnax, France
Completely unimpressed.
This was, except for downtown Paris, the most expensive hotel room we stayed at in 6 weeks of travel in France and Italy. It was also the worst.
Extremely loud for noise from the hall or other rooms, especially in the bathroom. I've never heard any place so loud at transmitting noise, even in the cheapest of American motels.
There were no do not disturb signs to put out.
Absolutely no heat regulation I could see. Not able to turn it on or off, and no way to adjust it to your comfort level.
The only good thing was that the bed and pillows were good.
Hall lights are not activated by motion sensors like most nowadays and there were very few switches in the hall.
Shower drain backed up and no shelf or holder for soap or shampoo. No hair dryer.
Given the other, glowing, reviews, we read on about this hotel that got us to try it, maybe we would've been well advised to be drunken rugby fans. :)