This mid-19th century mansion was once the family home of the well-known food critic Henri Gault, and is set at the end of a thriving and prosperous high street in a small village. The small team who run the hotel are friendly, efficient and eager to please.
Eating here is a treat – seasonal menus use produce from the hotel’s kitchen garden and you can dine next to the open kitchen in the restaurant or on a riverside terrace. Breakfast on bread, pastries, fresh fruit, yogurt, ham and eggs, plus excellent Normandy cheeses; you can have lunch and dinner too or there’s a choice of restaurants within a few minutes’ walk, including a bistro, pizzeria and burger joint.
Relax in the garden with a book, or in the open-plan downstairs reception area with its elegant sitting room and a bar. A fine staircase leads to two floors of bedrooms, most with sitting areas, and some with terraces or balconies. Kayak and fish on the river, or sightsee: Giverny is half an hour away, Versailles and Rouen are an hour. Drive to Paris or the Normandy coast in 1.5 hours.
A charming place. From the outside, it’s an old-style family mansion in a garden by the River Eure. Inside, the mood is light-hearted, unfrilly, sophisticated comfort, the food is hyper-fresh modern French, the staff are intelligent, friendly and good at their jobs. And the cherry? That’s the little river that curves glittering alongside house and garden. Take a kayak and a picnic and dream the day away in that magical watery world. A super weekend place with Giverny ten minutes down the road and the pretty Normandy ports – Honfleur, Trouville, Deauville - only one and a half hours away.