Villa Otero By Happyculture

The hotel was clean and the beds were comfy and it was fairly good value for money and the rooms are well decorated. Nice touch having the free coffee,tea, hot chocolate machine in reception.

Okay, I booked one of the happy culture hotels on the strength mostly of their promised free afternoon goodies. Our hotel offered free afternoon teas between 2pm and 6pm with tea, coffee, cakes pastries and macaroons. Our hotel was next to two happy culture hotel that offered its own selection of goodies as did all the the other five happy culture hotels dotted around nice. I had narrowed my choice down to three when booking and this afternoon treat session sounded like a winner to me so that is solely what I based my final decision on when booking ever though the hotel does not offer any other amenities such as any leisure facilities, closeness to seafront, bar, restaurant. Unfortunately there was no goodies on offer at our hotel apart from some slices of cake and a drink made of water with lemons floating in it. Never mind though as the tv in the reception breakfast area was advertising the goodies on offer in the other hotels and there was a leaflet in reception listing what hotels offered what goodies and where to find them in Nice - first port of call was the two hotels next door but disappointingly all they had was a few danish pastries and the same lemon drink. unperturbed we took off round nice only to find the same in all the other hotels again, danish and lemon drink :-(. Many times we had to ask directions from one hotel to the next as the map given was very unhelpful and every time we said that we were on the trail of the goodies and waved our little leaflet but it was not until the last hotel (an hour and a half of walking later) that we were informed that the goodies were no longer being offered by happy culture and had stopped at the beginning of October (just before i booked) and all that was on offer now was yummy corner - the mini danish and the lemon drink in all hotels even though they were still advertising it and had the leaflets for it sitting in the reception of their hotels.

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