Hotel Lola

If you want a great stay with views of a Cathedral in the old town this is your place. A hip bar in the old town is below your room with lovely ambience. 5 star

My husband and I booked an air conditioned room at Lola for our trip to Bordeaux, because it’s obviously a cool spot. The bar looks great, the decor inside is cool. But when we arrived we were “upgraded” to a private apartment without air conditioning during Bordeaux’s recent 105°f/40°c heat wave. The apartment was separated from the hotel, up three sets of stairs, and had a broken shower that caused water from the shower to leak downstairs onto the stove. The room had a beautiful view of the church, but unfortunately, since it was so hot, we couldn’t close the windows to sleep at night, and so we heard all the noise from the street throughout the night. Noise in this neighborhood meaning dogs barking, utility trucks going over speed bumps, and the bar patrons on the street below. It was honestly some of the worst sleep we’d ever had. We cut our trip short, ate the cost on the lost night, and went back to Paris. Two stars because i think if we had gotten the room we’d booked we would have had a great time, the place looks cool af- and the repair guy who came to fix the shower was super nice and let me practice some French with him. I just don’t understand why we were “upgraded” out of our air conditioned room during a heat wave.