THE GHENT HERMITAGE
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A 5-star hotel featuring fully-equipped luxury rooms, a restaurant and an estaminet serving regional specialties.
Listed as a historical Monuments, the hospice founded by Jean de Le Cambe, known as Le Gantois, welcomed the Lille destitute from 1460 to 1995. Falling into disuse, the complex is let out to the Lille CHRU by the Lille company of hotel investment by emphyteutic lease of 60 years. Beautifully restored, the building has retained three of its four open courtyards (one of them houses the hotel's bar under a huge glass roof). The rooms are luxuriously equipped (the hotel is classified as a five-star one) and some open onto a courtyard not available to Lille visitors. L'Hermitage Gantois has a restaurant (the restaurant of L'Hermitage) and a tavern opening onto Rue de Paris which offers regional specialties in a decor of Flanders rural brasserie. Moreover, L'Hermitage Gantois provides valet parking, dry cleaning service and also has a chapel (with a simple 18th-century way of the cross and old paintings). A library with over 2,500 old books is accessible to guests who, apart from being a place where they can find peace and meditation, will discover quality pictorial exhibitions in the heart of Lille.
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We came for a romantic minimoon experience for 3 nights. Sadly there are several details that fell short for us on expectations.
- Key cards repeatedly kept wiping each day and needing to go back to reception to get a new key card. On one occasion had to wait 10 mins for reception staff as there was no one on post.
- Towels were not replaced when room service cleaned the room.
- found it odd when the room service cleaned the room to stuff all the fancy pillows behind the TV and not lay them on the bed.
- Plug points broken
- Tile fell off in the bath while using due to a poorly fastened towel rack. (Screws screwed into the grouting rather than the tile itself causing it to force the tile free)
- Not enough seating or hooks to hang your robes when visiting the pool. Pool side is very small and limited to first few users.
- TV in room was as old as the building, no modern apps, netflix ect. Back to watching a late night movie from the laptop. Not what you'd expect for a 5 Star.
- for a building with such history and intrigue a tour on arrival would really add to the experience.