Okay, it’s not much of a view, but I was lucky to at least have a room back in August, when visiting Arles on my trip through Europe.

After having driven across France for eight hours (from Bordeaux to the Marseille region), we couldn’t find any hotel in the area where we wanted to stay (near the Mediterranean Sea, to be able to kite surf). Finally we drove up to Arles, a beautiful city with plenty of ancient Roman sites to see. There we drove around for twenty minutes and found this boutique hotel in one of the really small allies of Arles.

They were completely booked, but still had two rooms left that wouldn’t normally be rented out to people. For us (and because it was so very busy in town), they made an exception. We got the room at a discounted rate, which was nice. The only drawback was: no view… Even worse, there was no window, other than one really high up.

Nevertheless, the hotel was awesome!!! Right underneath the hotel there was an excavation, covered by a glass pane that showed some ancient Roman artifacts (I think it was a bath house or so). The garden of the hotel was great and the breakfast was also very good. I said to Lars (the guy I was traveling with): this is definitely a place I would take a girlfriend to.

If I’m going to be in the neighborhood again, I’ll definitely book at this hotel again. No better place in Arles than Hotel d’Arlatan.

For more info on the trip by the way, check out my story on the road trip I did last August.