The Top 13 Hotels Near Entre Nous
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Forty-two pod-shaped rooms hang from a central tower like something dreamed up by a sci-fi production designer who got lost on a 12th-century French estate. This hotel sits inside a vast sculpture park alongside a restored château, so the grounds alone take some explaining. Rooms are compact, contemporary, and warm, leaning into the forest palette rather than fighting it. A spa and several dining options round things out, including a Michelin-starred restaurant on the property.
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The green-glass façade announces that this is not your grandmother's Rennes hotel. Le Saint-Antoine is a sleek city-center property with Zen-inflected rooms, a Carita spa, and a generous breakfast, but no restaurant, which is easy to forgive when you're steps from the heart of one of France's more underrated food cities. It's part of Best Western's Premier Collection, which in Europe carries rather more cachet than the name might suggest stateside.
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Sculptural light fixtures hang over sleek sofas in the lobby, with candlelight flickering from exposed brick bookcases, which is a lot of atmosphere for a business hotel. The 56 rooms across two restored townhouses go urban-playful, with vintage glass lamps and bold metallic wallpaper against white and slate gray. Downstairs there's a Nuxe spa and a restaurant run by a Michelin-starred Parisian chef. Most of Rennes is a short walk away.
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A five-room boutique hotel named after a Hitchcock film, which tells you exactly the kind of atmosphere the team is going for. The sixties aesthetic runs through mid-century furniture, patterned wallpaper, and tiled bathrooms small enough to feel like a film set. A 16th-century building in Rennes' historic center houses all of this, and the lounge fireplace at night, Chesterfield sofa included, does nothing to dispel the mood.
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Five rooms tucked above what is primarily a fine-dining destination, this guesthouse in Saint-Grégoire lets you sleep off dinner rather than drive home from it. The Lounge Bar and Salon Bar handle the before and after, with a fireplace for digestifs on colder nights and a terrace and heated pool when Brittany decides to cooperate. A boutique on the way out sells gourmet souvenirs chosen by the chef, in case you weren't already committed to the bit.
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Three karaoke rooms in a medieval building at the center of Rennes tells you everything about what Mama Shelter is going for. This urban boutique hotel leans hard into communal energy, with a restaurant, bar, terrace, and rooftop keeping things sociable, plus a spa and indoor pool for the morning after. Rooms are compact and deliberately playful, aimed squarely at travelers who find "luxury" a little exhausting. The Michelin Guide has it among its selected hotels.
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A former presbytery in a village that looks purpose-built for Instagram, on the road to Mont Saint Michel, with a cottage garden that doubles as the kitchen's larder. The Michelin-starred chef runs a single surprise menu, vegetable-forward and sea-leaning, plated with a restraint that suits the old stone walls. A handful of stylish guestrooms make the detour easy to justify to yourself. Book ahead; the room holds few.
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A seven-room stone villa a short drive from the Mont, where clawfoot tubs and wooden headboards set an unhurried, old-world tone. The owners call it the smallest five-star hotel in Europe, which is either a charming boast or a very French flex, possibly both. Balconies on most rooms face the greenery, and breakfast is the kind of spread that makes checkout feel like a punishment. Book well ahead.
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A twelfth-century abbey a short drive inland from Brittany's Emerald Coast, converted into a 45-room hotel where the stone walls predate France as a concept and the rooms are quietly contemporary. Many have private terraces, and there's a pool plus a full wellness area with a sauna, steam room, and whirlpool. It's the kind of place that makes you feel vaguely monastic, in the most comfortable way possible.
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A cedar tree old enough to have opinions anchors the garden of this boutique guesthouse inside a grand 19th-century mansion in the walled medieval town of Dinan. The house has been carefully restored by skilled artisans, mixing period atmosphere with contemporary Breton artwork and proper comfort. A lounge, library, salon, and courtyard give it the feel of a private house where the owners happen to be very organized.
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Across the square from the Basilique Saint-Sauveur, this boutique bed and breakfast occupies a restored medieval building where wattle-and-daub walls and a lion's-paw fireplace share the floor plan with proper modern comforts. Each room is named for a town explored by the adventurer born in this very house. Breakfast runs to homemade jams and Breton galettes, served either in the dining room or a walled garden that feels quietly, stubbornly romantic.
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A former hunting lodge in the Normandie-Maine regional park, Le Manoir du Lys keeps the exposed timbers and classic facade while the interiors run quietly contemporary underneath. It's a family-run countryside hotel with substantial grounds and an outdoor pool, the kind of place where the Norman forest does most of the heavy lifting for atmosphere. The on-site restaurant has held a Michelin star for years, which gives dinner somewhere to go.