Need to know

Rooms

Five, including three ensuite rooms and two apartments with basic self-catering facilities and a terrace.

Rates

Rooms: €90–€105; apartments: €750–€800 for one week. Rates include a generous Continental breakfast.

Check-out

11.30am, but flexible depending on the next guests.

Facilities

The B&B's big on vintage furnishings and character, but not obsessed by 'amenities'. If a plug-in kettle, tea bags and no TV offend, this may not be the place for you. (There's free broadband internet). Apartments have kitchenettes and terraces.

Poolside

Steps lead up from the courtyard to a sun-warmed pool, where a raised sunbathing platorn offers shade to the loungers below.

Children

Little ones aged 12 and under stay free. Babysitting can be arranged at €7–€10. There is an extra cot available at no extra cost.

Hotel closed

At Christmas.

Also

Pets are welcome, to the tune of €10 a day.

In the know

Our favourite rooms

With its high ceilings, vintage furnishings and wrought iron furniture, the blue room is beyond tranquil. Linen drapes hang from copper poles; a roll-top bath with linen curtains creates a room within a room, and a unique bathing experience. The green room is also a favourite, with its spacious bathroom and pebble mosaic floor detail amongst terracotta tiles. The larger apartment has the most private terrace, a small white bedroom and a stunning bathroom where old chandeliers jostle for attention alongside the polished concrete walls and dark purple linen floor-length curtains.

Packing tips

Pack a relaxed demeanour – this place is for chilling. (Also bring shampoo/conditioner – general smellies are not provided).

Food & drink

Hotel restaurant

As a chambre d’hôte, there is no restaurant or room service (hey, it's a licence issue), but a delightful breakfast is served in the little dining room, or, if the weather obliges, on a rustic wooden table in the courtyard.

Dress code

Crumpled linens for stretching out under Tuillerie trees at twilight.

Top table

There is a small sitting room with comfy antique sofas hidden with cushions (fight the cats for a space).

Hotel bar

There's no bar; however, the two apartments have fridges ready for you to chill your locally sourced wines.

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