Alistair Sawday Special Places Guides: French Hotels & Châteaux
Product Description
French Hotels & Châteaux is a seductive collection of over 380 hotels, châteaux, auberges and other places, all beautiful, unusual and great value and all inspected and then selected because we like them. Seasonal, fresh and local food is de rigueur and, at many châteaux, dinners are hosted around a communal table.
Over 150 of these places have rooms for €100 or less. Wine tasting, bike trips, cookery courses, tango workshops, antique hunting, making your own scent – all these activities are possible.
“Full of sumptuous châteaux, converted convents and rose-covered cottages. Spend a few hours with it and you won’t be able to resist booking a holiday.”
Living France
“Up-to-date and reliable and a popular guide for the traveller who is looking for an individual and authentic place to stay.”
Living France
“As the undisputed master of guidebooks about places to stay in France, Alastair’s hotel and gîte recommendations are always worth noting.”
French Magazine
“The latest offering from Alastair Sawday is a reminder that there are still hotels out there that are owned by people and not companies.”
Everything France
“Something to suit absolutely everyone, from a simple auberge to a sumptious suite in a château.”
France Magazine
About the Editor
Susan Herrick Luraschi also edits our Paris Hotels guide. She has lived in the centre of Paris for 10 years (and in France for about 30) and is passionate about her adoptive country, its buildings, people, food and wine.
About the Alistair Sawday Special Places Guide Series
This series has established itself as the Bible for the discerning traveller. With its huge variety and range of high quality good value places to stay. There are no set rules, no interminable checklists and no hard-and-fast criteria for inclusion. Sawday celebrates the unusual, the beautiful and the individual.
“This is much more than a standard accommodation guide, for the highly personal and intimate writing in each review creates a strong sense of place.”
The Sunday Telegraph
Key Benefits
- Authentic travel guides written by someone who lives in and knows the country
- Each place is written about from personal experience
- Unusual, high quality places to stay
- Beautifully-illustrated guides
- Places reviewed are all reasonably priced
Customer Rating
| Book Genre | Travel Guides |
| Book Format | Illustrated |
| Binding | Paperback |
| Publisher | Alastair Sawday's; 5Rev Ed edition (6 Mar 2008) |
| Number of pages | 464 |
| ISBN | 978-1-901970-95-1 |
| Date of Publication | No |
| Language | Miscellaneous |
| Level | N/A |
| Media Type | Book |
| Product Alert Text | No |
| Offer Text | N/A |