Château de Saint Paterne
Style Fine food, fresh heir
Setting Cusp of the Loire
Château de Saint Paterne is a luxe and lived-in family castle in the gastronomic greenlands on the Normandy border. With fairytale looks, original stone walls and cosily classic interiors, this boutique hotel offers a chic stay with a huge history – King Henri IV once slept in these very rooms.
Need to know
- Rooms 10, including six suites.
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Rates
Double rooms from AU$172.51 (€131), excluding tax at 7 per cent.
The price shown represents the lowest nightly rate for a double room available at this hotel over the next 21 days. Any price conversions from the hotel's local currency (€131) have been conducted using today's exchange rates from xe.com.
- More details Rates exclude breakfast (€13).
- Facilities Tennis courts, CD, DVD and book libraries, in-room massage, free WiFi throughout. In rooms: flatscreen TV, DVD/CD, iPod dock, L’Occitane products.
- Poolside There's a heated outdoor pool in the grounds, open May–September.
- Check-out 12 noon, but flexible according to availability. Earliest check-in, 2.30pm.
- Children Extra beds can be added to all rooms, except Maréchal, for €15 a night (free if you book a family room). Cots for babies cost nothing. Baby monitors can be borrowed. Children’s dinner is served at 7.15pm. More...
- Also Pets can stay for €10 a night.
- Hotel closed From 20 December to New Year and between January and early March.
Food and drink at Château de Saint Paterne
- Hotel restaurant Owner Charles-Henry de Valbray is a self-taught chef who prepares a terrific set dinner, served around 8pm each evening. Typical dishes include beetroot and caper gazpacho with cucumber sorbet, veal tagine with dried fruits, and apricot puffs with rosemary ice-cream.
- Dress code Bohemian and chic, to match owners Ségolène and Charles-Henry.
- Top table Take your pick from the drawing room or dining room, out on the terrace if the sun is shining, or in the Moroccan-inspired games room, which can be decorated romantically if you’re planning to propose.
- Last orders Breakfast is available from 8.30am until 11am. Dinner is served at 8pm.
- Room service None.
- Hotel bar There’s an honesty bar in the salon, a grand space in which to nurse a nightcap and pretend you own the château, to the sounds of jazz, lounge and classical.
Also worth knowing
- Weddings This property is suitable for weddings. More...
Château de Saint Paterne 4, rue de la Gaieté, 72610 Saint paterne /alencon
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Smith extra at Château de Saint Paterne
A bottle of pommeau – a Norman apple liqueur
In the know
Our favourite rooms
L’Orangerie is set apart from the château, a huge, self-contained suite with an open bathroom, vast wooden bed and one wall made from a 19th-century backdrop found in a Barcelona theatre. The château’s most modern room is the Chambre des Mystères, romantically secluded up two narrow flights of winding stairs. It’s chocolate-coloured, with bold red accents. For a stay that’s steeped in history, go for the Chambre d’Henri IV, where France’s first Bourbon king kipped.
Packing tips
Riding boots, helmets and a hearty appetite for cider and cheese.
Also
In-room massages can be arranged on request, and there are bicycles to borrow.
