Mercure Albi Rives du Tarn

Kudos to the Mercure Albi for their fabulous location in Albi just a short walk over the bridge into town, but with fabulous views from the hotel of the bridge and the cathedral. I was worried that I wouldn’t have a place to park my car, but their parking lot is excellent and easy to get to. The front desk personnel were very helpful in getting my luggage to one from my car. They also answered any questions I had about going to town they gave me a map, etc. I ate dinner at the hotel both nights because I have special diet restrictions. The menu was problematic for me, but the waitress Jessica persevered and along with the chef provided a meal for me that was excellent. My room had a fabulous view. It had two big windows with a wide shelf in front of both of them from my bed. I could see the bridge and the city. It was fabulous. I would go back in a heartbeat .

This is a very nice hotel. It has an exceptionally good restaurant which punches above the weight of the hotel category.

The hotel is beautiful and the view amazing. Everything is close by.

Best location ever near an awesome bridge on the river sunset was great. Nice dinning room, abondance in breakfast and dinner. Room was nice kettle coffee tea and bottles of water to fill. Fridge. Bathroom with very few amenities. Bed and pillow were good

This hotel is top notch for it location, views and service. There's a very nice terrace dining area with terrific views (weather permitting) as well as a popular inviting lobby bar. At first, we had a quite small room (#302) with a partial view of the river/bridges but they upgraded us to a fantastic large corner room ($310) with windows on two sides that could even open. From there, the vistas of the beautiful Old Town of Albi plus the river, three different bridges and the Cathedral were simply great. Hotel had a very nice diverse breakfast (extra). It seemed the best option as nothing too much right nearby. Dinner meals were more mundane and somwhat repetitive menu. OK if too tired to go out for dinner but it was really quite a close walk across the river to where an abundance of nice restaurants were (near the unusual huge old brick cathedral). The address our GPS sent us to couldn't access the hotel and we went around in a few frustrating circles untile we found the parking entrance on a different street. Parking lot is inconvenient for dropped luggage so drive to the end and down a level to drop bags. Would definitely stay here again.

Lovely staff. But very smelly hotel. Carpets need a cleaning perhaps? I think a rodent died in the wall of my room. But enormous windows opened onto the river so I powered through it. Restaurant was not worth the $$.