I must have dreamed this place up. After three days on the chateau route and a night in a room with…read morelots of road noise Amboise, we followed the signs to this charming hotel well off the road on the way to Chambord, but still close enough to walk to stores and restaurants. We have a private balcony overlooking the countryside, along with a shared garden area and tables. The hotel is run by a friendly family that speaks English and were pleasantly surprised to host Americans. The room has a vaulted ceiling, lots of space and a modernized bathroom, along with good wifi.

We rode,our,bike from Paris and found the perfect place to recuperate. Great room, fabulous food…read moreand a helpful staff. We still dream about it. We were just pedaling done the road,and turned into the courtyard. We were very lucky to find it.

From the owner: Au fil des saisons, Christophe et son équipe proposent une cuisine créative et décomplexée, moderne…read moreet légère, végétale. Ils privilégient une cuisine du moment, à la minute avec une carte volontairement courte qui change tous les deux mois. A partir des produits les plus enracinés du terroir, la cuisine de Christophe Hay propose un voyage inédit avec des alliances de saveurs délicieusement surprenantes, un travail des textures, des cuissons parfaitement maîtrisées pour des créations culinaires harmonieuses. Le chef a choisi des producteurs issus uniquement du Loir et Cher : pour sublimer le tout, les fruits et légumes proviennent directement du jardin du chef !

We're rating the hotel, not the restaurant, as we didn't get a chance to eat there. On paper/web,…read morethis looks like it should be a wonderful place, a boutique gem. Unfortunately, that's not reality, as we learned during our recent stay. We have no complaints about the staff, who were pleasant (but we didn't interact with them that much, to tell the truth). Let's get to the rooms. We arrived at this hotel after a full day of biking along the river. No air conditioning and the rooms were hot. Being from a cool climate, this was unpleasant, but that might not be a big deal for others and they don't claim to have A/C, so that's not a major minus. Let's get to the bad and the ugly. We had two very small rooms: one warm and one hot. The warm room had windows that were either nailed or painted shut. This is a good metaphor for the overall condition of the hotel. It's a once-elegant place that has fallen into disrepair and now is well on its way to decrepitude. It looks like they had done some bathroom remodeling recently and, while reasonably attractive, the fixtures aren't very functional. And now the ugly. The hotter room's window opened, and clearly previous occupants had done so. As a result, the room was infested with insects. Hundreds of gnats crawled and hopped around on the ceiling; their dying bodies falling on the beds (and presumably the floors) like a spotty, black snowfall. My daughters were freaked out about this. I swapped with one and the other sleep with a sheet over her head. This is emblematic of the poor state of cleanliness in this hotel (among such things as lipstick marks on the glasses in the bathrooms and old blankets encrusted with dried leaves). Clearly, the staff doesn't pay much attention to the state of daily care of the rooms. This seems consistent with the overall level of maintenance for the rooms' contents. To sum up, this may have once been a wonderful hotel but it now has more of the ambience of a cheap motel, at least as far as the rooms are concerned.

It's a beautiful place with great staff. They're accommodating and friendly. Breakfast is great. It…read morewas a bit hard to find b/c google map doesn't send you to the proper entrance. I would highly recommend a stay here.

From the owner: Le château de La Rozelle, hôtel 4 étoiles est situé à moins de 20 minutes des prestigieux…read morechâteaux de Chambord, Blois, Cheverny et Chaumont sur Loire.