In the know
- Our favourite rooms
- Room 1, the suite, is the hotel’s largest, with a generous sitting room and a baby blue sofa bed for sleepy kids or cosy DVD-fuelled evenings. It’s the only room with Sky TV (the others are DVD player-only), and also the only one with a freestanding roll-top bath. Room 2 is the smallest, but it’s bright and airy, with cool terracotta tiles, a gorgeous marble fireplace and an addictive leather armchair, ideal for thumbing through a novel. Room 4, a large double, overlooks the sleepy village square. In the oldest part of the house, the new Cottage Suite, room 5, opens in summer 2008 and boasts romantic views across the hills.
- Packing tips
- Bring your skiing gear if you’re visiting in winter – the slopes of the Pyrenees are just half an hour away.
- Also
- Le Trésor is an ideal base for weekend hen parties, and runs a variety of activity programmes, from the strenuous to the soporific, including husky riding, skiing, rafting, and beauty treatments.
Current offers
- Smith card offer
- A bottle of Domaine Begude wine and a cheeseboard from the local area
- Current special offer
Le Trésor
Languedoc-roussillon, France [view map]
- Style
- Boutique bed and breakfast
- Setting
- Rural Pyrenean foothills
A boutique bed and breakfast with just five elegant rooms, Le Trésor offers the warmest welcome in the heart of the Aude. A vintage maison de maître on the edge of Sonnac-sur-l’Hers, the little hotel has beautiful terrace gardens to while away hammock-swaying afternoons, and home-from-home comforts in one of France’s most unspoilt wine regions.
Need to know
- Rooms
- Five, including two suites.
- Rates
- €80–€110, including breakfast. You can rent the whole house on a self-catering basis for €1,500–€1,800 a week.
- Check-out
- Midday, but guests can linger longer in the house itself if they wish.
- Facilities
- In-room spa treatments, library, DVD/CD selection, free WiFi in the central area (rooms 1–3), laundry (€8 a wash). In rooms: flatscreen TV, DVD player, White Company linen, L’Occitane toiletries.
- Eco-friendly
- Food is locally sourced and largely organic. Everything that can be is recycled and the hotel composts plant matter where possible.
- Hotel closed
- January–March (but you can book the whole house during this period).
- Also
- Non-smoking throughout.
Food & drink
- Hotel restaurant
- Breakfast is particularly special, with fresh fruits, yoghurts, muesli and warm, fluffy croissants from the village boulangerie. At the weekend, Tilly the owner can prepare delightful dinners on request – on Sunday too.
- Dress code
- Loose and leisurely.
- Top table
- Breakfast alfresco at one of the bistro tables in Le Trésor’s lush and leafy terraced gardens.
- Last orders
- Breakfast is served until 11am every day.
- Hotel bar
- The honesty bar in the lounge is packed with local vintages, soft drinks and spirits. There’s plenty of books and magazines to leaf through, and a pool table on hand too.
Smith card offer
A bottle of Domaine Begude wine and a cheeseboard from the local area
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Le Trésor
20 Place de l’Eglise
Sonnac-sur-l’Hers
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