Name: Intercontinental Bordeaux Le Grand Hotel
Address: Bordeaux, FR
Price range: From $920

Intercontinental Bordeaux Le Grand Hotel, BordeauxIntercontinental Bordeaux Le Grand Hotel in Bordeaux, France has a corrected score of 3.7 ± 0.2 (fair evidence, 2 of 4 platforms), ranked 15 of 141 hotels we score in Bordeaux. Its platform ratings, normalised to 0-5, average 3.7 before correction: Booking.com 3.9, Tripadvisor 3.6. Rooms from about $920 a night (cached, not a live quote).The InterContinental Bordeaux Le Grand Hotel is a five-star property of 150 rooms standing opposite the Grand Théâtre on Place de la Comédie, in the middle of Bordeaux's historic centre. The building dates from 1789 and has a limestone facade with interiors designed by Jacques Garcia. Facilities include a Gordon Ramsay gourmet restaurant, an indoor pool, a spa with sauna, hot tub and massage services, a rooftop terrace, meeting rooms, a business centre, valet parking and babysitting. It suits leisure travellers wanting a central address as well as business and event guests. Rates start around $920 a night, so it is a considerable outlay, and guest feedback on some booking platforms is middling despite strong review scores.What stands out

Opposite the Grand Théâtre in central Bordeaux

Gordon Ramsay restaurant on site

Indoor pool, spa and rooftop terrace

Friendly, efficient staff

Watch out for

Wi-Fi can be unreliable

Very high nightly rates

Better-scored in Bordeaux

Pavillon Des Millesimes, Bordeaux: 4.4 ± 0.2 (solid evidence, 3 of 4 platforms), from $236 a night. Pavillon des Millésimes is a four-star spa guesthouse and bed and breakfast in Lussac, close to Saint-Émilion in the Bordeaux wine region.

Villas Foch, Bordeaux: 4.3 ± 0.2 (solid evidence, 3 of 4 platforms), from $567 a night. Villas Foch is a small luxury boutique hotel set in a 19th-century building at 25 Cours du Maréchal Foch, in the Hôtel de Ville and Quinconces area of central Bordeaux.

La Bastide, Bordeaux: 4.2 ± 0.2 (fair evidence, 2 of 4 platforms). La Bastide is a four-star, smoke-free hotel in the La Bastide district of Bordeaux, on the right bank of the Garonne.