Hotel Crillon le Brave 
- Style
- Private eyrie
- Setting
- Hilltop turrets
The view from the Terrasse Ventoux of this beautiful boutique hotel in Provence is of the vine-covered plain of Vaucluse stretching southwards.
Need to know
- Rooms
- 32.
- Rates
- €200–€600, excluding breakfast.
- Check-out
- Midday.
- Facilities
- Wireless Internet in reception, laptops available, bicycles, wine-tasting, cheese-tasting and massage on request.
- Poolside
- Outdoor heated pool with panoramic country views.
- Children
- Are very welcome.
- Hotel closed
- Until 20 March, 2008.
- Also
- Pets are allowed, with a €10 charge. Smoking is permitted in the outdoor areas.
In the know
- Our favourite rooms
- Room 33, aka La Tour, is a vast suite on two levels with a pair of open-plan rolltop baths with a superb view, separated by a ‘champagne table’. Room 32 also has an open-plan living area, bedroom and bathroom, plus a vast shower room built right into the wall of the old citadel.
Food & drink
- Hotel restaurant
- Set in the rustic cellar, with an open fireplace and a gorgeous terrace, serving refined but not precious Provençal cuisine, such as pan-fried foie gras, and turbot or lamb.
- Dress code
- Linen, sunglasses, not too outré.
- Top table
- At the front of the terrace in summer; by the fire in winter.
- Room service
- Anything from the restaurant menu can be brought to your room, until 21h30. Light snacks are available at other times.
- Hotel bar
- You can take your apéritif in any of the hotel’s many nooks and crannies, indoors or out: the Terrace du Ventoux is pretty unbeatable in summer.
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