From our guide to French Hotels & Châteaux

From our guide to French Hotels & Châteaux

Manoir de Malagorse

Manoir de Malagorse

Lot, Midi - Pyrénées

Type of Accommodation: Guest house

You get more than you pay for here, so enjoy it to the hilt. The refined manoir in the idyllic setting was once a farmhouse whose occupants fell on hard times...

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Château Mouillepied

Château Mouillepied

Charente-Maritime, Poitou - Charentes

Type of Accommodation: Bed & Breakfast

The stream-fed moat is now mostly dry but this is how the house got its name - 'wet feet'. Many springs still gurgle in the nearby meadows, often flooded by the Charente...

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Les Baudry

For two nights purchased; the third is offered

Either 240 € instead of 360 € for two people.
From 15th May to 30 June.
You are received by the hosts with a warm welcome and invited to spend a relaxing sejour in a suite with fire-place.

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Château Mouillepied

pay only 80 euros to 30 th june

80 € double classic room, 95 € double confort room, included reakfast. Overlooking park of 40 ha . 30 km from the sea. Very quiet. To 30 th June 2008

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