We returned here this summer and brought our children - teenagers - with us so to enjoy a place we'd fallen in love with before. It was all we remembered and then some. The hotel has been beautifully maintained and the surrounding parkland now features a herd of fallow deer, which you can watch grazing while enjoying the delicious meals in the dining room.

We had a room in the main building of the Chateau, which is really a two storey suite. Downstairs my wife and I enjoyed a very large bedroom and well appointed bath with a lovely view of the surrounding countryside. Upstairs our teenagers had two distinct sleeping areas separated by their bathroom, and they had a close up look at the huge wooden beams that have held up the roof of the Chateau for four or more centuries. All of this for 200 E. Amazing!

This is the kind of a place you think only exists in fairy tales.

Our daughter told us that the dinner in the dining room was the best she has ever eaten and who are we to disagree? It is definitely a destination restaurant. That night, however, we had the dining room nearly to ourselves, and were treated graciously by the waiter, who happened to be sporting a tie with subtle Mickey Mouse logos. When we commented favorably about that, he was thrilled and the next time he came to the table he had another (backup?) Mickey tie to show us. And he informed us he had about 30 more...

We strolled in the grounds after dinner and over to the lovely parish church. Before checking in, we had been up to Chateauneuf, the medieval walled town near by, and this time we were able to tour the castle there. Many other landmarks dot the area, this would be a good base from which to spend a week exploring the region.