Céline is another gîte owner who enjoys roaming the surrounding area visiting antique and second-hand shops and flea markets to find furnishings for the house she rents out to people she calls les voyageurs (not using the term clients) who stay there. She describes the style of the furnishings as eclectique and hétéroclite. She also says local artisans and tradespeople really enjoy working on restoration projects like this one, and the main part of the renovation work here took only a few months.
Céline says her rental property has nine bedrooms and accommodates as many of 24 guests. The kitchen is enormous, and families and groups of friends who rent the place especially enjoy spending time cooking and eating together in the kitchen and dining room as part of their holiday fun. Here's a web site listing for the gîte rental, with many photos.
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Here are links to the five clips from the recent La Maison France 5 show
about the Saint-Aignan area that I've posted over the past week.
- Saint-Aignan introduction
- A B&B in Saint-Aignan/Noyers
- Gîtes ruraux in Saint-Aignan/Noyers
- A "cave dwelling" near Amboise
- A farmhouse at Pontlevoy
If memory serves, it is illegal for Gites and B&B's to have more than 5 rooms rented out at a time. More than that, they are hotels and must conform to hotel regulations.
ReplyDeleteWe stayed in a former hotel last June. It had more than 20 rooms but the owner told us he could not rent out more than 5 at a time since downgrading from a hotel status. It was because he couldn't afford to keep up with the hotel regulations any more that he had downgraded. He also said that if a single group (a club or a family) wanted to rent out the entire building and therefore occupy more rooms, that was possible. We had a good one-night stay, there, although the reason we were there was for a funeral.
DeleteWell, the woman who owns the place says during her segment on the Maison France 5 show that she has 9 rooms that can sleep 24. Is the 5-room rule something imposed by Gîtes de France? Or is it a blanket (as it were) rule. If so, maybe les voyageurs have to rent the whole place at 550 euros per night.
Actually, there are two buildings on the property, one with four bedrooms and the other with five. Maybe they are rented out separately and qualify as two gîtes.
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It pertains to the property, not the building or number of buildings.
Interesting, Ellen, thanks for this.
DeleteHétéroclite is the right word!
ReplyDeleteInteresting to learn about the rule of the number of chambres changing the category of the lodging. Also, hétéroclite is a new word for me. These have been very interesting. Thanks for going to all the trouble to post the videos, Ken!
ReplyDeleteIt's an attractive building on the outside a maison de caractère, I guess. I see hétéroclite translates as "irregular" - I was going to guess it implied "bohemian" but there's already a French word for that.
ReplyDeleteHeterogeneous, composed of disparate elements, a mixed bag, ill-assorted...eclectic.
DeleteThat's a nice house.
ReplyDeleteI was decorating via brocante long before I knew it was a term.
Met too, Emm.
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