Amangani Resort

( 3 stars , Cannes , France )

Don't get fooled by the picture of the fancy reception on the hotel website! the individual rooms are horrible and not even worth a single star!

I had to stay at this hotel whilst at the Gartner Symposium last week in Cannes. Having read other reviews I was not looking forward to the stay. Having arrived late on monday evening, having not been able to take my suit bag/shirt on the plane, i had to fold them up and put in my suitcase, which on arrival at the hotel was very creased. I was told by reception that they did not have an Iron in the hotel, nor was i allowed to buy one, and if i attempted to bring one in then I would be EJECTED!! I managed to get to Galleries Lafayete before it closed and buy a shirt otherwise I would have turned up at the conference looking like I had been dragged through a hedge backwards! I chose to get my other shirts dry cleaned and pressed by the 3rd party the hotel gets to pick up and drop off (48 hr turnaround i might add!) - apart from that , the rooms are small, the hotel is dated inside, but clean, and bed was comfy, not a 4* by anymeans, but it was Ok, i would not return their out of choice

The hotel has a very 70's decor and is definitely in need of a refit. In addition, the bar is very expensive but then again, so is Cannes. Nice pool. The staff were very pleasant, the room was clean when we got one that had been cleaned but we were early. We got a good deal so did not expect too much. Bit of a long walk into Cannes but buses good.

I would definately recommend this hotel.. Nice pool and surroundings in a good location, only 2 minutes to beach and less than 10 minutes to train station, where you can catch trains to Nice airport & Monaco. Although there are no restaurants nearby - the hotel is about a 20 minute walk along the sea front into Cannes. Staff are very friendly and helpful, breakfast is good and plentiful, rooms although outdated are clean and make sure to pay that bit extra and get a sea view room - definately worth it!

My wife and I stayed at the Solhotel as part of a larger group under the auspices of a large UK travel company. Our stay was only short but we we found the hotel to be extremely comfortable, the standard of the rooms very high as was the food. We thoroughly enjoyed our stay and have no hesitation in recommending the Solhotel. Our stay was from 10th.to 14th September 2002.

We booked the hotel with tripadvisor. But it was not like the pictures make you believe. It was the most ugly old room you can imagion. It is not 1 km from city centre but at least 3!! no minibar and typical rude french staff. YOU ARE WARNED!!

I recently stayed at this hotel during the Cannes Advertising Festival. All I can say is that it was awful. For one, it's 2.5km away from the main centre of Cannes which makes for a lot of walking. It's in the worst part of Cannes. We saw street kids dealing drugs at night and police chasing them on a reguar basis. If somehow you do end up here - don't venture out at night. Anyway ... enough about the location .... This place calls itself a 'resort hotel' which is laughable considering it doesn't even have a mini bar. When we called to ask where the mini bar was the reception desk just hung up on us. It does have a pool. But your idealic poolside retreat is interrupted at regular intervals by a train which rattles past directly in front of it. The main train line is literally right in front of the pool - about three metres away. I can go on and on about this miserable excuse for accomodation. If it was a quarter of the price they ask to stay there it would be understandable. Save your cash and sanity - stay somewhere else.

I had a reservation to stay at the hotel with my family (3 children of 5, 3 and 1) in two interconnecting rooms, for which I paid a one-night deposit. On the day of our arrival, I received a call from the hotel cancelling the reservation. Needless to say there was no other hotel to stay at in Cannes and we were left to sort out our own accommodation - the nearest being some 100 miles away near Aix en Provence! At the time of writing, I am still awaiting for the refund of my deposit and am reviewing my options legally. I would recommend avoiding these charlatans like the plague!

My partner and I stayed at the hotel for one week vacation during august 06. Our stay was an absolute pleasure, the hotel was clean, very comfortable and the modern styled room and reception was very much in keeping with modern design hotels. The pool area was perfect place to relax with the morning and afternoon sunshine and although the train track was close by you hardly noticed the very occassion train. The beech was less than 5 minutes stroll away and actually although slightly out of the town centre - this part of beech offered the best area for couples and families to relax. Don't stay in this hotel if you want to be in the heart of Cannes - but we really enjoyed the 10 minute stroll each morning and evening into the center along the seafront. If you didn't like the stroll, take the busy which runs so frequently from right outside the hotel to the centre. Be aware you will need to travel into the centre of cannes for bars, shops and resturants - unless you want to eat in the close by italian - just opposite the hotel - or try Paradise sandwich for the occassion lunch pannie. We would most certainly go back to the hotel - we loved it. Even though the hotel bar and resturant was expensive - the overall stay was a pleasure.

The hotel looks pretty awful from the outside, but the inside is a nice surprise. The hotel seems to have been refurbished very recently with very modern and stylish furniture. We were given a junior suite at a reduced price, at regular prices (at 300 Eur) this would definitely be overpriced, but now it was OK. (Booking throught the Internet, however, their prices are even lower than what we paid) On the plus side: A very large room, with very stylish furniture Nice staff Breakfast included in our price The bathroom was huge, with a nice shower cabin as well as a bath tub. On the minus side: No safe or minibar in the room The "sea view" was not very impressive, obscured by other large buildings The pool was very dirty - we went down but continued to the beach (within very easy access crossing the railway). This was however probably due to the windy day, with debris falling down from the surrounding tree.