If you see this place from the road, you'd think it was just a typical road-side motel, but it's actually a lot more than that. It's a very modern, sleek-looking hotel that's located a fairly short distance from Saumur on the opposite side of the Loire. (Saumur's about a 10-minute drive away.) The staff there speaks enough English to get by (especially if you happen to have just a little French yourself), and the restaurant is quite good. (It's also apparently popular with locals, which I take as a good sign.) The hotel is located in a sort of semi-suburbuan/semi-industrial area (so you won't be walking anywhere), but it's also not very expensive, and it's very up-to-date, including free wi-fi. (If IKEA built a hotel, it would probably look a lot like this one.) If you're interested in Saumur or the Loire river valley, you could do a whole lot worse than to stay at Hotel du Parc. Definitely recommended.