D'Angleterre 19 rue du Maréchal-Joffre tel 02.99.79.38.61, fax 02.99.79.43.85. Unexceptional, but cheap and scrupulously maintained hotel a short way south of the river; en suite costs €12.50 extra. Under €30.Au Rocher de Cancale 10 rue St-Michel tel 02.99.79.20.83. Beautifully restored four-room hotel with modern facilities on a lively pedestrian street, between place Ste-Anne and place St-Michel, in the heart of medieval Rennes. The restaurant, closed at weekends, has lunch menus from €9, dinners from €13; the €20 exclusively fish menu is excellent. €40–55 Garden Hôtel 3 rue Duhamel tel 02.99.65.45.06, fax 02.99.65.02.62. Comfortable, nicely decorated and very personal logis de France, north of the gare SNCF not far from the river, with a pleasant little garden café. €40–55 Des Lices 7 place des Lices tel 02.99.79.14.81, www.hotel-des-lices.com. Forty-five rooms, all with TV, in a very comfortable and friendly modern hotel on the edge of the prettiest part of old Rennes, handy for the place des Lices car park. €40–55 Hôtel M.S. Nemours 5 rue de Nemours tel 02.99.78.26.26 www.hotelnemours.com. Idiosyncratic nautical-themed hotel south of the river, where all the en-suite rooms are spick and span, and "Commandant Chappey" and his crew say "welcome aboard". €40–55 Riaval 9 rue de Riaval tel 02.99.50.65.58, fax 02.99.41.85.30. Friendly hotel with neat budget rooms, on a quiet street well away from the centre, but only a few minutes' walk east of the gare SNCF. Under €30. Tour d'Auvergne 20 bd de la Tour-d'Auvergne tel 02.99.30.84.16, fax 02.23.42.10.01. Very simple but welcoming option, above the little Serment de Vin brasserie, between the gare SNCF and the river. Some low-priced rooms have en-suite shower facilities. Under €30.
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