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Our favourite rooms: Room 8 has an arched ceiling, painted walls and a gilded four-poster bed. Room 1 has a tower bathroom and a crimson-hung four-poster.

Château de Bagnols - Beaujolais - France

Current offers

Smith card offer: Wine-tasting at a local vineyard (very occasionally this will be unavailable due to harvest times, etc)

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Château de Bagnols

Beaujolais, France[view map]

Style: Five-star castle
Setting: Fairy-tale gardens

The luxury Château de Bagnols hotel near Lyon has a moat, a drawbridge and towers of honey-coloured stone. Enjoy cookery courses, wine tasting, golf and tennis, or indulge in the hotel's Michelin-starred restaurant and excellent selection of wines.

Need to know

Rooms: 21, including eight junior suites, four suites and one apartment.
Rates: €436.02–€895.73 for the rooms; €2,199.05–€2,440.76 for the apartment, excluding 5.5 per cent tax. Breakfast, from €32.
Check-out: Midday.
Facilities: Library with internet access. Guided walking, horse riding, golf, tennis, cookery classes and wine-tasting. Bikes are free to use. Luxury chauffeured cars available for transfers and touring.
Poolside: Heated outdoor pool in summer.
Also: Small dogs are permitted in the hotel. Smoking is allowed on request.

Food & drink

Hotel restaurant: Michelin-starred La Salle des Gardes serves modern cuisine, as well as traditional dishes and spit-roasted meats and game, in the former guards’ room and on the south-facing terrace. Lunch is served midday to 1.30pm; dinner, 7.30–9.30pm.
Dress code: No jeans: châtelaine chic for her; jacket for him.
Top table: Dine by the fire in winter; outside under the century-old lime trees in summer.
Room service: 24-hour service, with a reduced menu after 10pm.
Hotel bar: There’s a small bar on the first floor, open until the last guest leaves.

Also worth knowing

Children: Welcome. There are English-speaking babysitters, a children’s menu and extra beds (at €95 a night) available in some rooms.
Weddings: This hotel is suitable for weddings. More…

Smith card offer

Wine-tasting at a local vineyard (very occasionally this will be unavailable due to harvest times, etc)

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