Name: Chateau De L Epinay
Address: Nantes, FR
Price range: From $182

Chateau De L Epinay, NantesChateau De L Epinay in Nantes, France has a corrected score of 3.9 ± 0.2 (fair evidence, 2 of 4 platforms), ranked 3 of 85 hotels we score in Nantes. Its platform ratings, normalised to 0-5, average 4.1 before correction: Booking.com 4.0, Tripadvisor 4.3. Rooms from about $182 a night (cached, not a live quote).Chateau de l'Epinay is an 18th-century château hotel in Saint-Georges-sur-Loire, in the Loire Valley, set in a 25-hectare park with a heated outdoor swimming pool. Facilities include a spa offering facials and body treatments, a gym, free Wi-Fi, parking, and an on-site Italian restaurant. Rooms range from compact standard doubles of about 15 square metres to suites of roughly 40 square metres, with rates starting around $182 per night. It welcomes families and pets and sits in a quiet historical setting, suiting travellers touring the Loire châteaux by car who want a calm countryside base. Some bathrooms are dated and old-fashioned, and a few outdoor stairs are wooden and uneven.What stands out

Attractive 18th-century château in large park

Heated pool, spa, gym and restaurant on site

Comfortable beds and friendly service

Family and pet friendly

Watch out for

Old-fashioned bathrooms and showers

Unsteady wooden outdoor stairs

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