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20 Place de l’Eglise, Sonnac-sur-l’Hers
11230


Le Trésor

Languedoc-Roussillon, France [view map]

Style
Boutique bed and breakfast
Setting
Rural Pyrenean foothills

A classic countryside maison de maître transformed into an intimate, idyllic guesthouse, Le Trésor is a rustic Ariége retreat, ideal for living that lazy Languedoc life…

Need to know

Languedoc-Roussillon hotels: Le Trésor, need to know
Rooms
Four, including one suite.
Rates
€85–€110, excludes breakfast (€7.50 each). You can rent the whole house on a self-catering basis for €2,000–€2,300 a week.
Check-out
Midday, but guests can linger longer in the house itself if they wish.
Facilities
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.
Children
Kids older than two cost €20 a night. La Trésor is best suited to babies – there’s a steriliser, changing mats and a cot available (request in advance). Rooms 1 and 5 have separate bedrooms suitable for children. Baby monitors work in all rooms.
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.

In the know

Our favourite rooms
Room 1, the two-bedroom suite, is the hotel’s largest, with a generous main bedroom 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 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.

Food & drink

Languedoc-Roussillon hotels: Le Trésor, food and 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.

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Le Trésor

20 Place de l’Eglise, Sonnac-sur-l’Hers

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Le Trésor

Languedoc-Roussillon, France [view map]

Local restaurants

Sonnac-sur-l'Hers is a tiny place, so gourmets are best taking the trip to Limoux. Mirepoix, or Carcassonne, for restaurant dining. 12th-century Mirepoix is laden with birstros serving local specialities such as duck confit and cassoulet, and the Relais Royale hotel (+33 (0)5 61 60 19 19) on rue Maréchasl Clauzel offers particularly scrumptious French inventions. In Limoux, you can sample the world's first sparkling wine, Blanquette de Limoux at the Hotel de Moderne et Pigeon (+33 (0)4 68 31 00 25) on place du Général Leclerc, which also does divine south-eastern French cuisine in what was once a Carmelite monastery. Michelin-starred Le Parc  Franck Putelat  in Carcassone (+33 (0)4 68 71 80 80) is an ever-reliable lunch spot. At Domaine Gayda (+33 (0)4 68 31 64 14), near Limoux, you can hire your own hut and have a barbecue for you in the middle of a vineyard.

Worth getting out of bed for

The mediaeval city of Carcassonne is about 50 minutes away and a day exploring its fortified walls and pointed towers can be eye-opening. Also mediaeval, but much smaller in scale, the beautiful village of Camon is just 10 minutes from Sonnac-sur-l-Hers, and its Celtic neighbour, Mirepoix, is well worth an afternoon wander. An English couple own the vineyard at Domaine Begude (www.domainebegude.com), which produces some fine whites and rosés. Tastings can be arranged. Will and Tilly can help you arrange white water rafting, canoeing, canyoning – even sky-diving– in the nearby area, and there are two freshwater lakes less than 10 minutes' walks away that are great wild-swimming spots.

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