Hotel Indigo Bordeaux Centre Chartrons by IHG
When you book Hotel Indigo Bordeaux Centre Chartrons by IHG in France through our IHG Destined partnership, your stay includes daily breakfast for two, a $100 USD hotel credit per stay and a welcome amenity. You also receive a room upgrade, early check-in and late check-out when available. No premium credit card or membership needed: request a quote and our advisor books it at the same rate as booking direct.
Exclusive Booking Perks
These perks are included with your stay at the same rate as booking direct with the hotel.
- $100 USD (or local currency equivalent) hotel credit per stay
- Daily complimentary breakfast for 2 guests (full or continental, depending on the hotel)
- Complimentary room upgrade (subject to availability)
- Local welcome amenity
- Early check-in / late check-out (subject to availability)
Guest feedback
8.4/10 from 2,232 guest reviews
By category
Guests liked
- Excellent staff service
- Great locations near attractions
- Comfortable rooms
Points to consider
- Occasional noise during breakfast
- Some issues with room details
Location
The property sits in Chartrons, Bordeaux's former wine merchant quarter, where 18th-century stone façades line streets named for négociants who once filled their cellars with barriques bound for northern Europe. This is a neighbourhood of antique dealers, Sunday brocantes, and neighbours greeting each other at corner bakeries, a quieter counterpoint to the grand sweep of the UNESCO-listed Port of the Moon waterfront less than a kilometre south. The air still carries a faint funk of oak and river mud, a reminder that Bordeaux built its fortune on Garonne currents and vineyard slopes.
Chartrons unfolds around you: cobbled lanes opening onto the Marché des Chartrons, where vendors hawk oysters and wild asparagus depending on the season, just three hundred metres from the hotel. The quays trace a long arc north, pedestrian-friendly and lined with plane trees, leading eventually to the Jardin Public's English-style gardens and wrought-iron gates.
Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport lies twelve kilometres west, reachable by tram or taxi in under half an hour, though the city's tram network threads through Chartrons itself, making car-free exploration effortless.
The property sits two minutes on foot from Maison Nouvelle, where chef Philippe Etchebest presides over a two-Michelin-starred dining room on the Chartrons market square. Start with langoustine prepared with precision that justifies the accolades, or reserve a table at Le Pressoir d'Argent, Gordon Ramsay's two-starred restaurant less than a kilometre south in the heart of Bordeaux's golden triangle. The École du Vin de Bordeaux, eight hundred metres along the quay, conducts guided tastings that decode the appellations of the Médoc, Pessac-Léognan, and Saint-Émilion, the latter a UNESCO-listed wine jurisdiction thirty-three kilometres east where viticulture dates to Roman settlement.
Book a morning at Marché des Chartrons to watch Bordelais haggle over chanterelles and canelés, the city's rum-and-vanilla pastry with its signature caramelized crust. The Museum of Decorative Arts occupies the Hôtel de Lalande, an eighteenth-century hôtel particulier displaying Sèvres porcelain and period furniture. Don't miss the Piliers de Tutelle, remnants of a Roman temple that once anchored the city's ancient forum, now standing in quiet contrast to the tram lines crisscrossing Place Gambetta.
Summer, especially July and August, brings highs near twenty-eight degrees and sharp Mediterranean light that glints off the Garonne. Cafés spill onto pavements, and the city slows to a Provençal rhythm despite its Atlantic latitude.
Spring and autumn hover in the mid-teens to low twenties, ideal for market wandering and long quayside walks. April showers give way to May's vineyard bloom, while September's harvest season fills the air with fermenting must and a palpable energy in the wine bars.
Winter, mild by continental standards, sees temperatures around ten degrees with grey skies and occasional drizzle. The city turns inward: wood-panelled bistros, early sunsets, and the theatre season in full swing. Chartrons' stone absorbs the damp, but fires crackle in dining rooms, and the pace feels unhurried, almost conspiratorial.
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