Le Couvent des Minimes
Style L'Occitane-enhanced convent
Setting Aromatic Luberon gardens
Inspired by the fragrant lavender, roses and verbena that grow around its stately stone facade, Le Couvent des Minimes Hôtel & Spa is a paean to L’Occitane. Once home to Minimes monks, then Franciscan sisters, this sensual hotel has an enticing spa and 15-acre aromatic gardens, the fruits of which are served up in the gastronomic restaurant.
Need to know
- Rooms 46, including six suites.
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Rates
Double rooms from $374.81 (€299), excluding tax at 7 per cent.
Prices have been converted from the hotel's local currency (€299), via XE.com, using today's exchange rate.
- More details Rates exclude breakfast (€29).
- Facilities Spa with sauna and hammam, gym, wine cellar, pétanque pitch, tennis court, former church used for exhibitions and events, pool table, DVD/CD library, free WiFi throughout. In rooms: flatscreen TV, DVD/hi-fi, minibar and L'Occitane toiletries.
- Poolside There is an outdoor pool and an indoor pool to dip into.
- Check-out 12pm but flexible, subject to availability and half a day’s room charge, until 6pm. Earliest check-in, 3pm.
- Children Les petits are welcome, with cots and extra beds provided free for under-12s. The restaurant does a special menu, and staff can provide babysitting for €15 an hour, booked in advance. Guests must be at least 16 to use the spa.
- Also The hotel has two wheelchair-accessible rooms. Pooches that notch up 5kg or less on the scales are welcome and smokers can light up on the outside terraces.
Food and drink at Le Couvent des Minimes
- Hotel restaurant Le Cloître is one of the area’s most renowned restaurants, serving simple but refined dishes, such as sea-bass with crystallised lemon and dried fruit and nuts. The menu often features vegetables and herbs plundered from the hotel’s gardens. In balmy weather, buffet lunch is served at Bancaou, the restaurant next to the swimming pool.
- Dress code Floral prints, understated colours.
- Top table In summer, the restaurant moves out into the courtyard. Sit indoors by the open fire in winter.
- Last orders Breakfast is served up from 7am–10.30am, lunch is from noon until 2pm and dinner is 7.30pm–10pm.
- Room service A selection of salads, sandwiches, starters, mains and puddings is available 7am–11pm.
- Hotel bar Le Pesquier lounge bar is decorated in shades of ocean grey, caramel and cream, with plump sofas and armchairs, and sleek bar stools. Open during high season, Le Caveau des Minimes is a bar and terrace overlooking the pool. The wine cellar, La Cornue, can be reserved in the evenings for special tastings, for four or more people.
Also worth knowing
- Weddings This property is suitable for weddings. More...
Le Couvent des Minimes Chemin des Jeux de Maï, Provence, 04230
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Smith extra at Le Couvent des Minimes
Free use of the L'Occitane spa throughout your stay (usually €25 a day each), plus home-made macaroons or other treats in your room on arrival
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Our favourite rooms
If you like the sound of space, white walls and calming pastels, book one of the mid-range Restanques rooms. If you have friends or family in tow, opt for the hotel’s biggest suite, La Maison de Mane, which can be arranged as a two-bedroom apartment. Newlyweds may want to follow the oak steps that spiral up to the honeymoon suite, La Cassine, tucked away behind a small wooden door in the oldest part of the building. Walls are whitewashed, with regal purple furnishings adding pools of colour; the bedroom has a vaulted ceiling and overlooks the gardens.
Packing tips
Leave room in your suitcase to fill with goodies from the hotel’s L’Occitane boutique, where their exclusive Le Couvent des Minimes range is sold.
Also
The spa is open by appointment from 10am–8pm. Treatments are deservedly popular, so remember to book.
From the Guestbook…
Lunch in Le Bancaou every day was exceptional and well worth it, especially if you're after a day of relaxing by the pool and doing little else. We travelled outside of the hotel t...
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