I hate to give this hotel a 1 star but unfortunately our experience with them after check out has led to this. We arrived on 15 Aug at 11:30pm and were hit with a €500 deposit, after looking back at the booking we realised we missed the T&C about being charged a deposit when we arrived, and being there for 7 days, this is why ours was so high, we had to suck it up and accept we'd made a mistake.
Regardless, I have never ever experienced a hotel just taking the money from you rather than just having a card on file in case any money needs to be deducted. We are a couple in our mid 20s and without family members being able to send us the €500 we would have been without any spending money for the remainder of our trip.
When we checked out, we did the refund process to get the €500 back, as of course, we left the room in the condition we found it. It has now been almost 6 weeks (checked out on 22 Augut, currently writing this on 28 Sept) and we have not received the money from the hotel.
We have called the hotel and they claim it's their French bank, who "sometimes takes up to a month to return money to international accounts", but they're more than happy to immediately take money from you with no month waiting time. It seems completely unfeasible that an international chain of hotels cannot handle payments to international bank accounts, and it's really not good enough.
We are now in debt to the family members who gave us the €500 and just want it back, please!!