Premiere Classe Dunkerque Est - Armbouts Cappel - Armbouts-Cappel

My husband and I use this hotel regularly as a stop-over. It is easy to get to - yards from the motorway (but with no traffic noise) - and consistently acceptable accommodation. The rooms are basic, but clean enough and comfortable enough for a night or two. We will continue to visit.

We were passing through the area on our way further North and found that this was good bargain. In reality though the room seemed to be as big as box room. The bathroom was so tiny that you could have injured yourself if you sneezed. I suppose that I should not complain too much for the price, but I am not sure that I will reuse it again in a hurry.

I have stayed in one hotel worse than this, but that was decades ago in Asia: As the instructions to find the "Premiere Classe" (even "Troisiême Classe" would have been unfounded) hotel were incorrect and outdated (still showing road and exit numbers from the old French system) it took us two hours to find this place, which is in an industrial area far outside Dunkerque. When we finally arrived, we found our room on the third floor (no lift!); even smaller than the cabins offered by Formule1 and similar chains, +28 centigrade inside and with positively no air. After having tampered with the airconditioning for some 20 minutes, trying to get it to work, I found that it had been disconnected: Wire cut and sealed. By then the reception was closed (prematurely, probably due to the hotel being full), so we had to spend the night in ca. 30 degrees in an airless room, with only some 600 m/m from the top bunk to the ceiling. I put the A/C outside, to get some more room and found that under it were months of accumulated filth, dead bugs, etc. The rest of the floor was only marginally cleaner, bed linen was torn, etc., etc. As we had to leave early to catch our ferry, we didn't meet the reception staff, what possibly saved them a few front teeth. Keep as far away from "Premiere Classe" hotels as you possibly can!!! In most countries lodgimngs like these wouldn't even be approved as refugee camps. -Travelling Swede-

Sehr kleine Zimmer, aber dafür neues Möbiliar und die Zimmer sind absolut sauber. Etwas ungewohnt sind die Balkone über die man die Zimmer erreicht. Hat aber auch Vorteile, man kann zu jeder Tages- und Nachtzeit unbemerkt in die Zimmer gehen. Man erhält eine Magnetshipkarte, die man auch unterwegs bei sich trägt, so dass ein weg zur Rezeption entfällt. Ich hatte aber den Eindruck, daß diese immer besetzt war. Frühstück ist typisch französisch, sehr süß. Es gibt kein Wurstaufschnitt oder so etwas, aber es ist alles sehr lieb angerichtet. Der Kühlschrank mit der Butter und der Marmelade ist übrigens um die Ecke. Jeder der reinkommt sucht die Butter. Ich glaube das passiert jedem, ich verstehe auch nicht, wieso die Butter nicht neben dem Brot steht. Witzigerweise helfen sich die Gäste aber gegenseitig, indem man den anderen drauf aufmerksam macht.