This beautiful 300-year-old, lovingly restored chateau is owned by Roel and Pia Klinkhammer. Roel is also owner and tour guide for Victory Tours, offering a most imformative tour of the D-Day beaches. Pia is an artist and their b&b is full of tastefully arranged art. The room we stayed in was large and very comfortable with large private bath. There's also a large living area for guests to use that has free wi-fi. The grounds are lovely, with space for a picnic. The breakfast was superb, more like a German breakfast than typical French, but complete with delicious croissants and breads just purchased at the local bakery. The chateau is only 20 min. to Bayeux. We stayed 3 nights and would have been happy to stay longer.

My wife, grown son & I spent two nights in Roel & Pia's lovely home, and took the full-day tour with Roel of Victorytours.com.
The chateau is beautiful and peaceful, a bit off the beaten path but a nice change from Paris. The bed was comfy and breakfast was wonderful. Roel's knowledge and insight into the places we visited on his tour really made the history of that fateful day in 1944 come alive. Included in the full-day tour is a stop at an isolated church that served as an aid station for the 82nd Airborne on the eve of D-Day, a sight that is not in any of the literature about the area that I've read. Thanks to Roel for a memorable experience, and thanks to him & Pia for a lovely stay in their chateau.

We spent 3 wonderful nights at Chateau de Lignerolles. Roel and Pia were the most gracious of hosts. The Chateau has to be seen to be believed!

The room was spacious, beautifully furnished, and comfortable. Pia's breakfast was topped only by her warmth and hospitality. Roel has forgotten more about D-Day than most Ph.D professors in history will ever learn. We signed up for his full day tour, and it was an unforgettable experience. A master storyteller, he brings history alive.

We hope to return someday...

Our family of five (2 parents, 2 teens, 1 twenty something) just spent two nights with Roel and Pia at their beautiful chateau. It could not have been any nicer. The accommodations were excellent, the food at breakfast wonderful (all the coffee you wanted!), and the hosts were most attentive! Pia even turned on the bedwarmers for us one evening before we got in when the weather turned quite chilly. The setting (especially after the hustle and bustle of Paris for a week) was calm, serene, and quite beautiful. We spent several hours on the Victory Tour of the some of the WWII sights with Roel. He even kept our 14 yo interested! Roel gave us excellent directions and we had no trouble at all reaching the chateau from the train station in Caen. No way at all (IMO) can you go wrong staying with this lovely couple in their 1731 chateau!