La Bastide De Saint Tropez

“Dolce vita in saint Tropez”

Went there for a romantic week end this Summer . The réception staff is super Nice, as the valets and the pools waiter. The room was a bit small, but the overall assets of the location is dreamy. The swimmingpool is super Nice and the Provence style décoration is a blast.

“Beautiful tranquil yet very expensive hotel”

I approached our 2 night stay here with a little trepidation. St Tropez isn’t really geared towards someone like me. I personally don’t like the overzealous exuberance of the place and I wasn’t happy paying the amount I did for a room for a friends birthday weekend. Taking this pre conceived view... more

I approached our 2 night stay here with a little trepidation. St Tropez isn’t really geared towards someone like me. I personally don’t like the overzealous exuberance of the place and I wasn’t happy paying the amount I did for a room for a friends birthday weekend. Taking this pre conceived view into this trip I was pleasantly surprised with La Bastide. Negative first, this hotel (and probably 90% of hotels in St Tropez) is not worth the “uber” 5 star prices. Our room was very small and not of the quality of a top hotel. Could’ve done with a better decor and there were many knocks and bumps visible. I could’ve got unlucky with the room but I suspect all would’ve looked similar. Looking to the positives. It’s a small hotel and hence is very peaceful and tranquil. If you’re in St Tropez for a party weekend, it’s nice to escape and have a few hours chilling out around the beautiful pool area. Plenty of green plants and trees, terracotta styled buildings beautiful blue pool, the whole thing resonates of 1960’s Beverly Hills movie star dripping hotel. It really is lovely. Every member of staff we encountered were incredibly friendly from the front of house to the maids. They also had an incredibly helpful free transfer to the main town centre. The hotel is about 20 min walk to the centre so very doable but in the summer heat, it is nice to have the option to be driven. The roads are so busy in St Tropez so I felt guilty asking the guys to take us for such a short journey but it never seemed too much for them and they were always happy to help. The food is good at the hotel also. Breakfast is buffet style and whilst the selection wasn’t the biggest, it is a tiny hotel so difficult to justify a massive spread as much of it would be wasted. What was there, was good. We had lunch around the pool also at their BBQ option. The food here was really good and of a very generous portion size. My only quibble would be that again, there is no justification for the price and the food and beverage prices were insanely eye watering. Overall, a very lovely hotel and if you can reason or overlook the exorbitant cost, you’ll no doubt enjoy your stay.

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“Pretty setting but some faults”

We chose this hotel after looking through the relais chateau handbook of 2020 however their Michelin star chef Philippe Colinet had left to go to Sezz hotel in st Tropez the food in the main restaurant was quite poor and a disappointment such that after a couple of tries we ate out lunch and di... more

We chose this hotel after looking through the relais chateau handbook of 2020 however their Michelin star chef Philippe Colinet had left to go to Sezz hotel in st Tropez the food in the main restaurant was quite poor and a disappointment such that after a couple of tries we ate out lunch and dinner . The staff some of whom are very young and inexperienced are all pleasant and helpful but this in itself Was not enough to make us want to return - the manager did not speak to us other than say bonjour , though there was a dark haired lady who did engage - never knew her position . Our room cost 1435 euro a day it was an apartment , but really not worth that price , bathroom rather plain and quite small , good aircon in room towels were excellent , fluffy and soft , certainly a very quiet Hotel but without the draw of a top quality chef very few visitors came from outside . We had first gone to it when we stayed at what was the Pinede hotel in st Tropez , it was a destination Restaurant and we had a nice meal , it can regain this position and of course I wish it well in that regard for the sake of the pleasant staff . The atmosphere was really just too quiet during the day , that was the guests fault who could not be described as “ rollicking “ ie having a few drinks and laughing from time to time , little laughter was ever heard . Maybe we expected a little more “atmosphere ‘ I notice there are no current reviews and several of the 2022 reviews are from people who had posted Only one or 2 reviews previously .

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