This was a return visit for us to Grignan. We stayed in the main hotel in the “Ecriteur” room on the first floor. A relatively spacious room that is decorated with style — better lodgings than our room in the “Maison Privee,” where we had stayed on our prior visit. Good modern bath facilities with good quality linens and toiletries.
Our visit was on a Monday when the gastronomic restaurant was closed (which we knew when we booked and probably accounted for the lower room rate). The menu choices for their other restaurant rid not appeal to us so we walked into the historic village and ate at La Poeme instead, which was superb (see my separate review). Breakfast the next morning at the hotel was charming, but a bit pricey (23 euros).
One warning: the access to the hotel is difficult and confusing. The road is blocked off about 50 yards before the entry to the hotel — problematic if you are traveling with a lot of luggage, as we were. The hotel is capable of removing the barrier so that you can get closer but you need to call ahead or walk up to reception and make a request. Also, on Tuesday mornings, the outdoor market takes over the entire roadway by the front of the hotel. There is a back entrance off the north side of the hotel but you need to know where it is. And, if you miss that entrance, you are on a one-way street that takes you into a rabbit-warren of other one-way streets into the historical, walled village, from which you ultimately emerge about one mile to the north of the road to the hotel.