Kitchen facilities
Kitchenette - in one corner of the room with 2 ring electric hob, mini-oven, dishwasher and fridge with freezer compartment (for those G&T ice cubes!)

External facilities
The studio has a small balcony equipped with a table/chairs. Allocated parking is available in the residence's parking.

Special features
With your confirmation letter, you'll get an information booklet - with our favourite places to eat and drink, locations/times of local shops etc - & of course maps and directions for getting to the studio!

Waiting for you when you arrive:

Initial supplies of tea, coffee, milk & sugar (if you need something stronger there's the complimentary bottle of wine!).

Studio is well equipped with heating, with centrally controlled wall mounted electric radiators and convector heaters.

The owners are ashamed to say that some of the internal doors are too narrow for wheelchairs to get through. Otherwise, the facilities are quite accessible for people with mobility difficulties and there is a lift from the ground floor.

The studio is available to be rented by the day (min periods apply) outside of July & August, when it is available by the week (starting/finishing on Thursdays or Fridays).

Further information (incl availability) : http://martinetchris.chez-alice.fr/a-la-carte/

Local activities
La Rochelle well deserves its reputation as "the most attractive & unspoilt seaside town in France". Set around its Old Port, with its famous twin towers, are a host of delights including port side bars and restaurants, old arcaded town streets, parks and gardens historical buildings such as the Hôtel de Ville, Maison Henri II or the Palais de Justice – as well as of course the Tours de la Chaîne, la Lanterne and St.Nicolas, museums of all sorts, including Musée des Beaux-Arts, Musée du Nouveau Monde and the Musée Maritime and La Rochelle beach to relax on after a walk though the sea-front parks !

Nearest beach: 2

Nearest airport: 8

Nearest port: 330

Nearest supermarket: 2

Location
The Studio près de l’Aquarium is just along the road from La Rochelle’s famous Aquarium : take a 10 minute stroll from your studio and you're at the Old Port, surrounded by yachts and bars, in the centre of the life of La Rochelle !

But in case you do not feel like venturing into the centre of La Rochelle every evening, within a minute or two's walk from your studio in other directions, you have got a range of local bars, eateries and shops !

Living room/bedroom - with sofa, coffee table, dining table and 2 chairs, TV/video, CD/radio, room safe, a direct dial telephone/answering machine (enabling internet access if you bring a laptop) and a full-sized double bed which folds to the wall for daytime living space (it is NOT a sofa-bed !)