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Fifty metres from Foncillon beach, the Best Western Hotel Royan Ocean, Royan, France, sits a five-minute walk from the centre, opposite the conference hall and the quay where the ferries cross to Le Verdon, most of its rooms turned to the ocean for a fine view through the stay. Rooms on the higher floors open onto a panorama of the bay, and the seafront setting puts the beach, the centre, and the estuary crossings within an easy walk. The shoreline keeps the surroundings open and bright. Royan was rebuilt after the war as a showcase of breezy 1950s seaside architecture, its great curved concrete church rising over a sweep of sandy coves on the mouth of the Gironde, with the lighthouse of Cordouan out in the estuary, the oyster ports of the coast, and the pine forests of the Cote de Beaute close by. From the front, the wide bay opens toward the Atlantic light.