Need to know
Rooms
17.
Check–Out
Noon, but flexible, on request and subject to availability. Earliest check-in, 4pm.
More details
Rates don’t include the hotel’s healthy buffet-style breakfast (€30 a guest). But yoga sessions and two guided hikes a week are free and on arrival you’ll find green and black tea and some biscuits waiting for you.
Also
Unfortunately the vintage building and rugged farm outlay make this stay unsuitable for guests with mobility issues.
Hotel closed
The hotel closes for the winter season.
At the hotel
Sauna, Nordic bath, sports hall, pétanque pitch, tennis court, bikes for hire (€15 an hour, €30 a half day, €45 a full day), living room, umbrellas and plug-adaptors to borrow, charged laundry service, and free WiFi. In rooms: minibar, air-conditioning, Susanne Kaufmann bath products.
Our favourite rooms
There’s a rustic spareness to rooms – with white walls and just a desk, posies of dried flowers and perhaps a wooden shutter or the ghost of the Bastide’s former features (a fireplace, painted-over window…), but this contributes to the sense of calm and draws focus to those soul-stirring green views. The Superior has views over the Luberon mountains, and the Grande Deluxe is the largest on the property.
Poolside
The sizable heated pool is hidden in the garden’s greenery, surrounded by loungers and sherbet-hued parasols, with a glimpse of mountains between the branches.
Spa
Spa-ing is practically mandatory here – how else can you fully achieve inner peace and a dewy glow? You’ll be pampered in ‘pods’ set amid the trees, with just the rustle of leaves to disturb. Products are by organic French brand On the Wild Side, which will brighten, lift and scrub as part of botanically scented facials, wraps and massages (or special Ayurvedic and Renata França-method therapies and reflexology on request). Mani-pedis and waxing can be booked too, and the sauna and Nordic bath (heated to 35 degrees) in the grounds will steam any worries away. Fitness comes in the form of yoga and HIIT classes, and hikes into nature, and there are a range of specialists whose services you can call on, from dieticians to naturopaths to shiatsu practitioners.
Packing tips
Here’s what you’ll need to make a new you: yoga and work-out gear, hiking shoes and swimming costumes.
Also
The hotel recognises that snacking is an important part of wellness too, and so nuts, fresh fruit and detox waters are laid out from 4pm to 6pm daily.
Pet‐friendly
Pets can stay for free here, and they’ll be provided with a blanket and bowls. See more pet-friendly hotels in Provence.
Children
The only shushing you should be doing here is quieting any intrusive anxious thoughts, so leave the little ones at home.
Sustainability efforts
The bastide itself – formerly a farm and maison d’hôtes – had the outlay for a hotel, but in its glow-up it’s exceeded expectations. Rugged wood and stone features have been held onto, and operations are eco-minded, with 90 per cent biodegradable products used onsite, locally sourced ingredients and a ban on single-use plastic.
