Hôtel-Restaurant de la Tour

It was a very empty hotel. There was no staff present in the evening. Didn’t seem in operations much. Therefore there was no atmosphere. Our room smelt like a smokersroom and was very hot.

A fine location in the centre of Bulle and Le Gruyère.

Upon arrival at 14 in the afternoon we found an abandoned building. There was only a note and a phone number on the front door. It took us a long costly call with our foreign phone to understand what we needed to do; we had to go through a gate with the sign "private"; to take the stairs up and to the back side of the building; to use a code to open the locker for the keys of the backdoor and the room on the top floor. The voice told us breakfast would be served 7:30AM onwards.. which prooved it wasn't the following mornings! The restaurant was dark and empty at 07:37. At 07:40 an elderly couple joined us, also looking lost. At 07:45 a group of young English had to wait too, they thought there would be no breakfast and were already looking outside for alternatives... We had to wait untill 07:50 at last a lady came in a rush and served bread, some jam and coffee. The following morning the lady in charge arrived to serve breakfast at 08.30 AM. Our room for two persons was very small. The shower and toilet much too small and the basin even smaller, to be used for washing and teeth brushing! Impossible to wash oneself in the little (toilet) basin, we had to use the shower,. No service is available. Except for breakfast, the restaurant is not in use anymore. Too pricy for its quality; this is definitely not even a one-star hotel, merely a bed and breakfast.