This is a finely located hotel, stretching between rue d' Antibes and the sea front la Croisette, thus providing easy access to the best that Cannes has to offer in terms of both shopping and strolling. The hotel provides a cheaper alternative to the luxury heavyweights of la Croisette, but as in many other things in life one is only due to receive what one has payed for. In the case of gray d'albion guests, this results in rooms that would be deemed as an embarashment even to a 1-star establishment.
We booked a supposedly superior room which featured the most repulsive carpet I have ever encountered anywhere. Large stains and small stains covered it's texture almost entirely, making one fearful of puting a naked feet down. The rest of the room was only marginably better - everything from the walls to the doors was crying desperately for renovation. And as it might be expected, that old, sorry deep-red carpet extended on to the outside corridor as well, even covering its walls, creating an atmosphere of such cheapness and gloominess that would be scarcely possible to replicate even in a meticulous period film about the passing of a former grand era.
I do not want to give up totally on this hotel, because the lobby area as well as the restaurant floor had an ambience and a certain feeling of 'grandeur', obviously resulting from some recent makeover. Perhaps this is what is planned for the rest of the hotel too. However, until such work is actually undertaken and completed, I will definitelly not return to stay there again.
The hotel provides access to a private part of the beach ( at a charge ). The staff was nothing to talk about, their somewhat stiff attitude looked to us more like a reflection of the gloominess of the upper floors. The rooms were of adequate size, though in the state that they find themselves in this proves to be more of a problem than an actual benefit.














