Hotel Vendome, BW Signature Collection

Near the historic centre and surrounded by restaurants, the Hotel Vendome, BW Signature Collection, is a charming establishment in a Haussmann-baroque style that wins guests over with its authentic decor and warm feel. Close to the pedestrian streets, the shops, free parking, and the rail link. The rooms come in several categories varying in size and bedding, the comfort and executive versions more spacious, all decorated in a baroque style with a flat-screen television, a coffee machine, and free Wi-Fi. The central setting puts the old town within an easy walk. Vendome spreads across islands in the river Loir, a handsome old town where the river splits into leafy channels beneath the soaring abbey-church of the Trinite and the ruined castle on the heights above, with the cave-dwellings of the Loir valley, the rose gardens, and the fast trains to Paris close by. Down by the water, the willows and old mills line the slow green channels.