Normandy, France

Maison Douce Époque

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If you haven’t entered any dates, the rate shown is provided directly by the hotel and represents the cheapest double room (inclusive of taxes and fees) available in the next 60 days.

Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (EUR199.40), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

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Style

To le manoir born

Setting

Facing the Flowered Coast

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Coastal Normandy captivated the Impressionists — adults-only Maison Douce Époque makes it clear why. At this boutique hilltop retreat just outside Deauville, sea views frame the half-timbered manor house and peaceful, leafy acres. There’s a cosseting spa and beaches in easy reach, but save plenty of time to eye the shore from the pool or the fine-dining restaurant’s terrace. Days spent en plein air end at the salon bar, where mixology is made an artform — order a maritime-inspired tipple and toast the Côte Fleurie.

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

14, including 10 suites.

Check–Out

Noon, and check-in is at 4pm. Check-in is flexible, on request and subject to availability.

More details

Rates at Maison Douce Époque are room only, but a buffet breakfast is available for €37 a person.

Also

One ground-floor Park View Suite has been adapted for guests with limited mobility. Maison Douce Époque’s main entrance has a platform lift, there's elevator access throughout the main house (but not in the stables) and the swimming pools, restaurant, bar, spa and terraces are all wheelchair accessible.

At the hotel

Tennis court and rackets to borrow, games room, charged laundry service and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: TV, air-conditioning, Nespresso coffee machine, tea-making kit, minibar, free glass-bottled water, bathrobes, slippers, and Kos Paris bath products.

Our favourite rooms

Your main choice is between a room in the manor house or former stables. You’ll be at the centre of proceedings in the former, with the restaurant, bar and spa right there; from the latter, it’s a short walk or buggy ride up to the main house. Rooms in the manor look out over the manicured gardens and pool — and, in the case of the Sea View Suite, all the way down to the coast. In the former stables, you’ll be gazing out at the leafy parkland.

Poolside

here are few better spots to admire the manor than the heated outdoor pool, open from 8am to 11pm. Take up residence on a sunlounger and soak in the view of the romantic, half-timbered façade framed by the sparkling sea beyond. There’s an equally view-blessed indoor pool in the spa, too.

Spa

Sweep down the steps of the hotel’s spa towards serious spoiling. Massages, body wraps and facials use Kos Paris and Bellefontaine Switzerland products — they can all be tailored to your needs, right down to the essential oils, music and lighting. There's a hammam and Jacuzzi, too, plus an indoor pool with an uninterrupted view down to the sea. Yoga classes and personal training sessions can also be arranged, and there’s a 24-hour fitness room. The spa is open from 10.15am to 6.45pm (7.45pm on Saturdays). Rates include one hour’s free spa access for each guest.

Packing tips

Bring your racket so that you can hone your forehand over sea views on the hotel’s tennis court.

Also

If you’re staying in the former stables, you’ll have golf carts on hand to take you up to the manor.

Pet‐friendly

Dogs are welcome in all rooms at Maison Douce Époque for €30 a night. They're allowed everywhere except the pool, spa and restaurant during breakfast and dinner. See more pet-friendly hotels in Normandy.

Children

Leave the little Smiths at home for this adults-only stay.

Sustainability efforts

Maison Douce Époque has swapped single-use plastics for recyclable or biodegradable packaging. The bar and restaurant serve Café Joyeux coffee, which is roasted in France and offers supported, long-term employment to people with cognitive disabilities. The hotel also supports the Les Deux Amis initiative, working to restore a traditional Norman boat from 1949 and preserve local history.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

At Le Romanesque, pick between a picture window overlooking the coast and a spot at the chef’s table, where you’ll have a front-row view of the action in the open kitchen.

Dress Code

Effortless coastal elegance.

Hotel restaurant

Le Romanesque, the hotel’s fine-dining restaurant, turns the spotlight this region’s coast, fields and orchards. Normandy native Kévin Legoy is head chef, sourcing ingredients from local fishers, farmers and market gardeners for his seasonal tasting menus and handful of à la carte dishes. Fittingly, the airy dining room has sweeping views down to the sea.

Hotel bar

Le Bar des Dames is a salon-like space at the heart of the manor, where cosying up by the fireplace and claiming a spot on the sea-gazing terrace are equally enticing prospects. Head bartender Maël Ribeiro serves intricate cocktails infused with local flavours, such as La Primevère, which pairs Norman whisky and Pommeau with elderflower and lemon, alongside an extensive wine list. By day, graze on light bites like croques monsieurs and chicken cordon bleu (served 11am to 7pm); evenings mean organic oysters and planchettes of French cheese and charcuterie (served 3pm to 10pm).

Last orders

Breakfast is served at La Romanesque from 7am to 10.30am; afternoon tea from 3pm to 5pm, and dinner from 7pm to 9pm. Le Bar des Dames pours from 3pm to midnight.

Room service

You can order food up to your room around the clock.

Location

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Address
Maison Douce Époque
Chemin du Tocq Le Caniset
Benerville sur mer
14910
France

Maison Douce Époque is set amid quiet parkland a few minutes outside Deauville on Normandy’s Côte Fleurie.

Planes

The hotel is around a two-and-a-half-hour drive from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, which is your nearest international hub. Private transfers can be arranged on request.

Trains

Direct services run three times a day from Paris Saint Lazare to Trouville–Deauville station, a 10-minute drive from the hotel. Staff can arrange station transfers on request.

Automobiles

Your own wheels will come in handy for exploring Normandy’s coast. There are two private, outdoor carparks at the hotel, one by the manor and one near the former stables, with free valet parking and electric vehicle charging stations.

Worth getting out of bed for

Come prepared to fall for the Côte Fleurie’s seaside towns, with their scenic promenades, Belle Époque villas and rich artistic pedigree. Deauville remains the focal point, filled with chic boutiques, fronted by the famed boardwalk and its namesake, white-sand beach. Follow Lais de Mer promenade to Benerville’s Plage des Ammonites, where you’ll find wilder scenery and — if you’re lucky — one of the beach’s eponymous fossils. Head to Honfleur for a stroll around the old harbour, and see for yourself why the Impressionists made their home there. Equestrianism runs deep in the region, and the concierge can arrange expert-led horse-riding experiences. Cycling trips are on the cards, too, as are culinary tours ranging from cheese tastings to cider house visits. Back at the hotel, wine tastings and private dinners can be hosted in the wine cellars; or expand your repertoire with a cookery, pâtisserie or mixology masterclass.

Local restaurants

Aux Chérubins serves fresh Deauville scallops and other traditional Norman dishes a short walk from the beach in Blonville. At L’Essentiel in Deauville, culinary power couple Charles Thuillant and Mi-Ra combine their heritage in haute cuisine with a hint of Korean influence. A light-filled lunch spot set in a 19th-century convent in Deauville, Le Refectoire honours the Franciscan ethos of simple, wholesome cuisine using local, seasonal produce.

Local cafés

Les Planchettes’ menu of pancakes, bagels and pain perdu has brunch covered in Blonville; circle back later for an apéro and a local cheeseboard.

Local bars

Deauville's L’Équibriliste, meaning ‘the tightrope walker’, balances craft cocktails with moreish bar snacks and a knockout pistachio tiramisu. There’s a thread of Basque country influence behind Felicia, a tapas bar in Deauville with a welcoming pavement terrace and meticulously curated wine list.

Reviews

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By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this sea-facing hotel in France and unpacked their fountain pens and paint brushes, a full account of their cosseting break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Maison Douce Époque in Normandy… 

A classically Norman manor house built in 1909, adults-only Maison Douce Époque counts among its esteemed former guests Jacques Riviére, bearer of the enviable — if elusive — title ‘man of letters’. Over a century later, this boutique hotel still serves as a muse.

Inspiration starts in the rooms, which gaze out over peaceful parkland, landscaped gardens or the nearby coast and take their names from illustrious writers. A short drive away, there are quaint seaside promenades, cliff-backed coves and culinary tours to further fuel your creativity. Stay at the hotel, though, for romantic strolls and meditative spa visits, regionally focused fine dining worth waxing lyrical about, and a salon bar made for cosying up with your journal. What it takes to call oneself a person of letters might still be something of a mystery, but one thing is for certain — if you’re going to become one anywhere, it’s here.

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