Category: Château des Sablons

We fully enjoyed our stay in France!

We wish to thank you both for being such kind hosts. As usual, we fully enjoyed our stay in France at your Loire Valley chateau, and your Paris apartment. We ate lunch frequently at 3 Rue Rosiers which has good French food, and is very busy with locals. We also enjoyed Pierre Cardin’s art nouveau museum at his Maxim’s restaurant.

We plan to visit your New Orleans unit this spring.

Yours very respectfully,

Wilbur and Annabelle
Laguna Niguel, CA
USA

>Thank you so much for your hospitality.

>Thank you so much for your hospitality. Your welcome was warm and sincere. The chateau was a wonderful place to stay. So wonderful that we didn’t want to leave. Thanks for your guided tour. It was great to see areas that we otherwise wouldn’t have ventured to. We have a saying in Australia, “a man’s home is his castle.” In your case it is true. We will hold many fond memories, especially the view from the Vineyard suite.

Sarah and Ray P.
Australia

>We had a wonderful time staying at the chateau!

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We had a wonderful time at the Chateau and are already thinking about a return trip. The cycling was fabulous, so little traffic, and the vineyard and river views were beautiful. The bicycle shop owner was really nice and very easy to work with. We will forward some of our pictures to you. We were able to do a very quick trip into the Tuesday market before we had to check out, and we were duly impressed. Next visit, we will try again to arrive on a Monday so we can over indulge ourselves in the market offerings.

Vicky and Dan,
Queensbury, NY

USA

>Our stay was amazing!

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We have just arrived from an amazing week at the Chateau des Sablons. We couldn’t thank Jean-Pierre because of our early departure, but we must say that everything was fantastic! The Park View Suite, the chateau, the guidelines given, the town of Bourgueil, the Loire Valley… everything!
Thanks,
Andres P.
Spain

>We enjoyed out stay at the chateau!

>Let me tell how much we have enjoyed our stay at the Chateau des Sablons in the Grandview Suite. It was an ideal vacation: splendid location, excellent accommodations, and the best hosts anybody could wish for. Please extend our thanks to Jean-Pierre as well, and give Charlie a big hug from us.


Dana D.
Bucharest, Romania

>We wanted to thank you for your hospitality and your assistance in getting us started on our vacation!

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We have arrived back in Arizona and settled in to our “normal” life. We wanted to thank you for your hospitality and your assistance in getting us started on our vacation. Your Harvest Suite apartment in the carriage house is lovely. The views and quiet location were a perfect start to our month in France.


We are still sorting though the million photos so we will send some later. The town that we fell in love with on our first outing was Cinq-Mars. We got lost and decided to drive though when we were turning around. It captured our attention, and forced us to slow down and take in the experience. We took your advice and slowed down significantly after the first week.

Curt & Gaye K.

Arizona, USA

Thank you both for a wonderful week at the Chateau des Sablons!

After 92 degree heat in Provence (in May) we were enfolded in the cool, gentle, green arms of spring when we arrived (a day early) at Chateau des Sablons. Our hosts were welcoming, understanding, and invited us to collapse in our apartment a day early. And what a lovely apartment it was! The living area was flooded with light from two tall windows complete withworking shutters. The ceilings were high, and the wood floors were old. But pehaps not as old as the wonderful circular stairs leading up to our door. The staircase center pillar was carved from a large treetrunk after the stairs were installed many years ago. Much more recently the walls of the apartment were skillfully covered with a lovely fabric that softened the sounds and surfaces of the rooms. The kitchen of the apartment was new with all the expected and hoped for appliances – even a small freezer in the refrigerator. A vase of mauve peonies and a bottle of local wine were awaiting us after our first day. The king-sized bed was firm, and the bath had a blissful soaking tub. We would throw the window shutters open in the morning to radiant sunshine and the birdsong of a warbler, and the cooing of doves.

Besides all of this, the garden was postcard perfect with a gleaming swimming pool and clusters of tables and chairs set around the park-like grounds. The chateau itself is a perfect example of the exquisite, small country manors of French history. Not a huge castle, but a real and beautiful home. The local village, a 10 minute walk away, would have taken many weeks to get to know, but we were also in the center of the great chateau-wine-mushroom-troglodyte-Tufa cave-middle age village-Loire River-fabulous restaurants country. We could only scratch the surface and must return to continue our studies.
I would also like to mention how helpful, knowledgeable, and gracious our hosts were!
Thank you both so much.
Anita & Mike M.
Oregon, USA

>You home and your hospitality were wonderful!

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You home and your hospitality were wonderful. I have referred your rentals to several people. Some are interested in the Paris apartments, and some interested in the cooking classes given at the chateau. I am including a picture of Jean-Pierre and “Charlie” that I took on the day we left. Thank you again, and I hope to return or, maybe visit one of your other properties.



Charlotte Y.

Rehoboth Beach, DE
USA