Luxurious coastal stone country house with special appeal for children — Property 85280

Luxurious coastal stone country house with special appeal for children

Romantic, Napoleonic, classic cut stone country house completely surrounded by private forest with beautiful stone edged pool. This is the ideal house for large family parties and groups of friends. Its warm personal feel makes it perfect for parties and celebrations. Dressing up, books, paintings and unusual antiques make it an elegant home without being grand, precious or uncomfortable. 'Shabby chic' in style it is very child friendly with rabbits loose in the garden, nightingales singing in the forest and the occasional deer flitting across the lawn. With the entrance gates locked small children can roam free, sleeping in small antique beds playing with toys and children's books.The enclosed swimming pool ensures that they are safe while the children's platform (4 x 3 metres 0.75 m deep) with built in steps provides a paddling area. For older children the lively seaside resort at Montalivet will provide every entertainment with surfing, shops and huge everyday market.

Location Vendays-Montalivet Vendays Montalivet < Medoc < Gironde < Aquitaine < France

Vendays-Montalivet Vendays Montalivet < Medoc < Gironde < Aquitaine < France

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Availability for the chateau / country house in Gironde, France

Last updated on:

Friday, 08 August 2008

Changeover day:

Saturday

Normal availability

All year

Rental rates for the chateau / country house in Gironde, France

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Notes to the rental rates

• High Season. Security deposit required 450 euros.
  20% Deposit to Secure Booking.
  225 euros.Linen, Towels and Cleaning.
  For other dates and longer bookings , consult the owner
  
• Where a 2 week minimum period is specified a one week booking is possible at 300 euros extra if dates permit.
  Equally a winter let will be considered at less than 6 months with a supplement of 100 euros a week please consult owner. If we cannot accommodate you on the dates you require please consider our sister property The Beach-house at Montalivet (No 85289). which also sleeps 16. Large family groups can be accommodated between the 2 houses . (30 plus) Winter lets are payable in advance and electricity and telephone are not included. A 1 month deposit is required for 6 month winter lets. I prefer winter clients to have a weekly clean
  at 70 euros, paid direct to the cleaners.
  

Accommodation and Facilities for the chateau / country house in Gironde, France

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SUMMER ACTIVITIES. Unlike some other areas of France Vendays-Montalivet is a popular touristic area where the forest , dunes and beaches are accessible to all with cycle paths and footpaths. In Winter the population is approx. 2000 swelling to over 45,000 in summer and as a result visitors are treated to a huge everyday market in Montalivet in high season with over 150 stalls in August selling everything from oysters at 5 euros a dozen with a glass of white wine at 1 euro to hippy beads and foody specialities from all over France. There are plenty of stalls for wine tasting at all prices. Medoc wines are the best in the world and some of our local chateaux have some interesting bargains. They are a practical not snobbish breed, passionate about their wine and you will often find the son or daughter or even the owner of the chateau manning the stand.. have a chat and arrange a visit.. they'll be delighted. Bordeaux (voted Europe's coolest city) is an easy days visit.

WINTER ACTIVITIES. Vendays-Montalivet really is a destination for all seasons. Bordeaux, Ile de Re and Cap Ferret are all accessible to explore out of the tourist season. There is something special in winter about this area, the least populated in France, wide clear skies with spectacular stars, mysterious autumn mists, ceps, girolles and every kind of mushroom to search for in the forest and on the dunes. Long walks along the beaches, visits to the 300 medoc chateaux mostly open in winter, smell the mimosa in January, visit the local markets without the crowds, take your time in Bordeaux and sample the flea market in Place St. Michel on Sunday morning, eat at the Brasserie at the antiques centre and then see a film at the Utopia (4 little cinemas in a converted church) showing all the best international films. Find one of the reasonable hotels all over Bordeaux and explore the city on foot ,stroll round the Monday market in Place St. Michel ..you'll be surprised!

Pey au Bruc is a family home with antique furniture, paintings, books and quirky unusual decorative features throughout. I try to give the experience of living in a living organic house, as authentic as possible as you would find in any French country house which has evolved through the generations. If your antique lamp has developed a wobble or the brass and silver candlesticks are not gleaming like new every week or the odd spider has appeared this is not the house for you. This is not a house equipped just for summer rentals. . Ikea low voltage, wipe clean melamine tables and plastic wood floors but I do employ 2 excellent cleaners who work from 9a.m. to 4 p.m to clean and mop every floor for 5 hours. I do provide antique linen sheets,crisp pure cotton pillow cases, soft lighting, flowers, 30 candlesticks with candles, flowery cotton quilts in soft colours, antique caste iron roll top baths, antique taps. big antique pottery bowls and kitchen equipment that is nice to us