In the know
- Our favourite rooms
- Superior Room 8 has a grand four-poster bed and hand-painted Chinoiserie-style wallpaper in eau-de-nil tones. Suite Room 1 has a terrace which overlooks the pool. We love the romantic bathroom with a central slipper bath and separate shower in Deluxe Room 24. Suite Room 20 is a cream-and-taupe split-level sanctuary, with the bedroom downstairs, and a flashy black and white bathroom.
- Packing tips
- Big sunglasses, an Hermès scarf and chic flats for Mrs Smith; a black poloneck for Mr Smith to wear while discussing Balzac or Zola.
Current offers
- Smith card offer
- A bottle of wine.
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La Villa Gallici
Provence, France[view map]
- Style
- Grown-up grandeur
- Setting
- Edge of old-town Aix
This honey-coloured villa close to the opulent old town of Aix-en-Provence is a decadently decorated Francophile’s dream. Lavish interiors, sumptuous fabrics and a poolside Cézanne would have been proud to paint, Villa Gallici is a Provençal masterpiece. Its grounds live up to this idyll, too – they’re lusciously dense with 100-year-old plane and cypress trees.
Need to know
- Rooms
- 22, including five suites.
- Rates
- Low season, €230–€470; high season, €390–€900; excludes breakfast (€28 each) and taxes.
- Check-out
- 12pm, but flexible. Check-in, 3pm.
- Facilities
- Free WiFi throughout, outdoor heated pool, flatscreen TV, valet parking.
- Hotel closed
- January.
- Also
- Pets are welcome for €50 a day.
Food & drink
- Hotel restaurant
- The opulent dining room is formal but cosy, with sofas and squashy chairs pulled up to linen-draped tables. The candlelit terrace has a more relaxed summer-dining look. Lunch is served between 12.30pm and 1.30pm; dinner is between 7.30pm and 9.30pm. The fine-dining menu features pan-fried foie gras with cherries, roasted John Dory and chicory-anise ice-cream.
- Dress code
- Don the French grandes marques (Chanel, Hermès and co), but opt for understated.
- Top table
- Out on the terrace for some romantic seclusion.
- Last orders
- The bar is open all day, closing when the restaurant does.
- Room service
- The simple menu includes cheese boards, smoked salmon, soup and omelettes – available any time. The hotel will also bring you afternoon tea wherever you choose to take it – on the terrace, in your room or in the grounds.
- Hotel bar
- The bar is next to the restaurant and just as lavish – trompe l'oeil effects on the walls, florals and stripes on the soft furnishings. Any cocktail you like will be whipped up as you unwind to lounge and jazz classics.
Also worth knowing
- Children
- This hotel is better suited to couples - leave the children at home!
- Weddings
- This hotel is suitable for weddings. More…
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La Villa Gallici
Avenue de la Violette
13100 Aix-en-Provence
