The only 5-star hotel in La Grande-Motte, the La Plage hotel has been completely renovated

Deux étages ont été rajoutés, et la paillote revue dans sa décoration et son mobilier. – Wim Lippens

Le groupe Arrelia a investi 5 M€ pour surélever l’établissement de deux étages, passant de 30 à 46 chambres et suites, dont 40 avec vue sur mer.

Two more floors and a major renovation: the La Plage hotel in La Grande-Motte, located on Allée du Levant, a stone's throw from the Passe des Abîmes, celebrated its new walls this Thursday, June 6. A proper inauguration which was also that of its Cocobaïa straw hut, open from April to September. The year 2024 is synonymous with a restart and a new ambition for the palace, bought by the Arrelia group in 2019, just before Covid and which invested 5 million euros here. The establishment is the only 5-star in La Grande-Motte.

Swimming pool redone, building raised, the work cost the Arrelia group €5 million.

"The work allowed an extension with a two-story elevation and the increase from 30 rooms to 46 rooms and suites, 40 of which have a sea view&quot ;, explains Xavier Debaisieux, new general director of the palace. A boss who, under the leadership of Matthieu Blanc, president of the Arrelia group, recruited immediately after his arrival chef Jérôme Bartoletti, who worked at the Imperator de Nîmes, but also at the Domaine de Verchant, like Xavier Debaisieux.

Xavier Debaisieux, new director of the La Plage hotel in La Grande-Motte. Midi Libre – E.L.

The restaurant, completely renovated on the first floor, with its open kitchen (and still the sea view) is accessible for lunch and dinner, including to external customers (first price: €28 ;euros for two dishes).

The restaurant is also open to guests from outside the hotel.

The hotel has also revised its seminar room, doubling it with a second space. "If summer reservations are good, and we already have weekends with a good occupancy rate, business and seminar customers are also an audience that we are targeting. There is a strong demand for these services and here, in La Grande-Motte, we have the advantage of offering the work room and seaside services, it’s unique&nbsp ;!"

The Montpellier group Arrelia owns 11 hotels

The Arrelia group (from the Catalan arrels, which means root) was created in 2007, on the initiative of Matthieu Blanc, former clinic director. It is a subsidiary of Oc Santá (a Montpellier group specializing in healthcare establishments). Arrelia now owns 11 hotels from 2 to 5 stars, 4 serviced residences, 5 brasseries and restaurants and 2 beach huts, in a wider South, from Perpignan to Marseille. à Montpellier, Arrelia owns the Crowne Plaza (144 rooms), the Ibis Styles at the airport (74 rooms), the Ibis Styles centre comédie (76 rooms), the Holiday Inn in Montpellier (90 rooms) and the Ibis Budget in Montpellier Nord as well as the one at the airport. The 39 apartments of the Adagio residence are also its property, as are the Hôtel du Midi in Palavas (44 rooms) and the La Vita beach hut in Sète.

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