Hand-picked in Anglet: the 5-star hotel Brindos. Through suitespot you also get breakfast for two, a room upgrade subject to availability, hotel credit and VIP service – services worth more than €500.
Brindos Anglet · Étang de BrindosFor this guide we reviewed the best hotels in Anglet and chose one: a luxury hotel on exactly that lake – with three categories that float on the water. What that means for booking is below.Our choice for Anglet is the Brindos Anglet on the Allée du Château, on the Étang de Brindos. In our ranking it stands at 4.3 out of 5, and a night starts at 210 euros. The hotel belongs to Relais & Châteaux.
Why we recommend it: Because here part of the rooms do not lie by the lake but on it: to the château on the shore belong ten floating lodges on the water, reached by a jetty – one wakes up and the lake is under the floor. In all 39 rooms and suites, plus three restaurants, a spa with Gemology products, an outdoor pool and a heated one. Biarritz airport is a kilometre away, the centre of Biarritz three, the beaches three as well. Our recommended category is called The Wonderful.
Nine categories, six to the lake – and three of them float on it.
The list: 30 square metres in the Cocon lodge suite, 36 in the Cocon suite and the room of the same name, 42 in the room Les Merveilleuses to the garden, 45 in the room Les Prestiges, 47 in the Merveilleux lodge suite, 49 in the Intemporelles lodge suite, 55 in the Intemporelles suite and 85 in the presidential suite. All nine name a number, six the lake.
What makes this hotel special: the three categories that carry Les Lodges in their name are the floating lodges on the lake – 30, 47 and 49 square metres, all with a lake view, because they lie in the lake. Anyone who wants that experience therefore watches not the size but the word lodge in the category name.
And the recommendation needs a translation: The Wonderful is what our category is called; the hotel uses the French name – in two variants. Les Merveilleuses is the room at 42 square metres to the garden, Les Lodges Merveilleux the lodge suite at 47 on the water. Anyone who wants the lodge says so to our travel advisors.
The package includes three benefits – breakfast, upgrade on arrival and a welcome gift. The upgrade is therefore the benefit here that can still move the category.
Our advice: Book the lodge, not the square metres. Between 42 in the room and 47 on the water lie five metres of floor space and the whole difference of this hotel.
The Brindos Anglet stands at 1 Allée du Château on the Étang de Brindos – one kilometre from Biarritz airport, three from the Chambre d’Amour beach and from the centre of Biarritz, just under six from Bayonne, 13 from Saint-Jean-de-Luz and 40 from San Sebastián.
Our recommendation is therefore for anyone arriving by air who wants to be sitting by the lake ten minutes later – and for those who prefer a park with water to a seaside promenade.
What lies within reach: the lake with the jetty and the lodges, at the door; the beaches of Anglet with the surf schools at the Chambre d’Amour, three kilometres; Biarritz with the Rocher de la Vierge, the Grande Plage and the market hall, three as well.
For orientation: Biarritz airport is the closest in France to a hotel of this class, Bayonne with its cathedral and the Basque Museum is ten minutes away, Saint-Jean-de-Luz a quarter of an hour. San Sebastián in Spain is three quarters of an hour. Along the coast one drives; in the park one walks.
The Brindos Anglet has nine categories, six suites among them.
On the water: 30 square metres in the Cocon lodge suite, 47 in the Merveilleux lodge suite and 49 in the Intemporelles lodge suite – the three floating lodges, all to the lake.
On the shore: 36 in the Cocon suite to the lake and in the Cocon room, 42 in the room Les Merveilleuses to the garden – which corresponds to our recommended category The Wonderful –, 45 in the room Les Prestiges to the lake, 55 in the Intemporelles suite to the lake and 85 in the presidential suite.
On the view: this hotel’s motif is the Étang de Brindos, one of the largest private lakes in France – six categories look out on it and one onto the garden.
What applies equally to every category: breakfast for two, the upgrade on arrival subject to availability and a welcome gift.
A night at the luxury hotel in Anglet starts at 210 euros.
The suitespot benefits apply here from the first night. Included are: breakfast for two, an upgrade on arrival subject to availability and a welcome gift.
When it is loveliest: from May to October, when the outdoor pool is open and the Basque coast has its best weeks – September is the most reliable month on this coast.
What belongs to the Basque Country: winter. From November to March it is mild and green, the surfers stay, and the heated pool is the reason to come anyway. That is not a warning but the calendar: anyone coming then has the lake to themselves.
When to ask early: in July and August, for the Fêtes de Bayonne at the end of July and for the surf competitions in late summer.
How long to stay: three nights – Biarritz, Bayonne and a day across the border in San Sebastián.
And whatever the date: you get the suitespot benefits in the quietest week of the year just as you do in the busiest.
The French Basque Country is the stretch between the Atlantic and the Pyrenees where the façades are painted red and white and the language is older than any other in western Europe: Biarritz as the seaside resort Napoleon III invented for his wife, Bayonne as the city of ham and chocolate – and Anglet as the strip of beach between them.
Personal luxury travel adviceOur travel advisors personally accompany your booking – 365 days a year, from the first offer to late check-out. Reach the suitespot VIP service via email or WhatsApp.Phone: +49 30 81452346 · hotel@suitespot.comThree things belong to it. First Biarritz: the Rocher de la Vierge, the Grande Plage and the market hall, three kilometres. Second Bayonne: the gothic cathedral, the Rue du Port-Neuf with its chocolatiers and the Basque Museum, ten minutes. Third San Sebastián: La Concha bay and the pintxo bars of the old town, three quarters of an hour across the border.
The package at this hotel is breakfast, upgrade and gift.
What our travel advisors arrange most often: the lodge on the lake, for the reason stated above, the table at one of the three restaurants and the day in San Sebastián – because the pintxo bars of the Parte Vieja are full in the evening and not at midday.
The focus of this selection is Relais & Châteaux. Booking through suitespot costs you neither points nor an elite night: the rate settles as a direct rate and your status is still recognised. Here is what is available in Anglet:
At no extra cost: you pay the same rate as booking direct with the hotel – the suitespot benefits come on top, free of charge.
| Program | Hotels | Examples in Anglet |
|---|---|---|
| Relais & Châteaux | 1 hotel | Brindos Anglet |
We reviewed the best hotels in Anglet and chose one: the Brindos on the Étang de Brindos, three kilometres from Biarritz.
A night starts at 210 euros. Since it is our only hotel in the commune there is no price range, just this starting point.
36 to 45 square metres in the rooms, 30 to 85 in the suites. Our recommended category The Wonderful corresponds to the room Les Merveilleuses at 42.
The Brindos. In our ranking it stands at 4.3 out of 5: a château on the Étang de Brindos with 39 rooms and suites, ten floating lodges on the lake, three restaurants, a spa and two pools, a member of Relais & Châteaux.
Six of nine categories carry the lake view, among them the three floating lodges at 30, 47 and 49 square metres. One faces the garden.
The suitespot benefits apply here from the first night. The package is short: breakfast, the upgrade on arrival subject to availability and a welcome gift.
One kilometre from Biarritz airport. The centre of Biarritz and the beaches are three kilometres away, Bayonne just under six, San Sebastián 40.
From May to October, with September the most reliable month. In July and August and for the Fêtes de Bayonne the hotel fills early; the winter is mild and quiet.

