Château Holidays in France

Holiday Accommodation Database

Holiday in a Luxurious Château

Many châteaux, manor houses, and country mansions also offer bed and breakfast accommodation where you can enjoy the personal hospitality of the owners, some of whom are French nobility. FrenchEntrée have a great selection... more...

French Château Holidays

For most people, finding holiday accommodation in France, means deciding on a region and then trawling numerous websites for available gîtes, cottages, hotels or chambres d'hotes. There is however, another option, become Lord of the Manor for a week in your very own French château. Chateau holidays...

Château Lasserre, Languedoc

A story of love, devotion and dust come good.

Sally Crocker, owner of Le Château Lasserre, in the Languedoc, describes her first encounter with the grand house, it's charms, history and how she turned her love for the property into her living.

"Six years later and I can still remember..." story of chateau rental in the Languedoc...

Staying at a Château in Villeneuve-sur-Lot

A brief stop on a European Tour by camping car

Retired librarians, Jill and Ian Maxted have spent the last few years travelling around the whole of Europe, accompanied by Modestine, their faithful camping car. Here they recount one small part of the trip where they spend a memorable few days in a family Château in Villeneuve...
Lot château stay...

The Loire Chateau File

Take a tour of the Loire's famous historic buildings

The name Loire inspires images of fairytale castles, stories of the Plantagenets and royal intrigue, and lush green valleys and vineyards surrounding the rivers of the area. Here's our guide to the famous châteaux...
Beautiful fairytale châteaux...

Calm At The Castle

Patrick & Colette from C4's 'No Going Back' speak to FrenchEntrée Holidays

Colette & Agnès

You may have cringed and admired along with millions of others, at the Channel 4 series, 'Chaos At The Castle'. Patrick and Colette jacked in high-powered city jobs in favour of renovating a crumbling château in rural France, and turning it into a hotel...which they were going to run. Now established, with (most of) the chaos behind them, Patrick and Colette talk to us about how they are getting on, and tell us what makes château holidays so special... more...

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Château Le Mas de Montet, Petit-Bersac

"Not your usual four-star hotel"

Le Mas de Montet

Antony Mair, Dordogne resident, visits a local hotel and restaurant at Château Le Mas de Montet.

"The other week Paul and I discovered by chance that a purse in which we normally keep foreign currency had a large stash of euros in it, and since neither of us knew who they belonged to we decided to have an outing..." château outing...

Château Hall of Fame

Château Castel Novel reviewed

If it's prestige you're after, you can't beat Château Castel Novel's list of famous guests. This 4 star château is near the historic city of Brive-la-Gaillarde, Corrèze, and boasts glowing reviews from Jacques Chirac and the very French pop star, Johnny Halliday... more...

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