What do you think about this Chateau to stay?
Dec 4th, 2006, 02:41 PM
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What do you think about this Chateau to stay?
Well, we have 'nutted' out our Paris apartment and now onto the Loire Valley.We rather like the idea of basing ourselves in Tours and taking day trips from there. It means not packing and unpacking every day. We have found this Chateau and would appreciate your thoughts on it and the idea to just day trip around the Loire rather than tour around Loire. We will be there for five days and we would consider anything up to a 400klm round trip a 'day' tour. Though I appreciate that a number of chateaux etc are within a much shorter radius of Tours.
The following is the address of the chateau and will be staying in 'The Lodge' - click on the lodge on left hand tool bar.
At 735 euros for the week it seems like very good value to me. (We are what you would describe as budget travellers).
www.chateauduplessis.com
Many thanks in advance
Stormer
The following is the address of the chateau and will be staying in 'The Lodge' - click on the lodge on left hand tool bar.
At 735 euros for the week it seems like very good value to me. (We are what you would describe as budget travellers).
www.chateauduplessis.com
Many thanks in advance
Stormer
Dec 4th, 2006, 02:48 PM
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It looks very nice for the price from the site. This is just my personal opinon, but I'd go nuts for five nights staying somewhere like that. I'd rather be in a regular small hotel in one of the towns or villages where we can walk around at night, choose other restaurants, and not drive back and forth. We've enjoyed staying IN Amboise and IN Chinon.
Dec 4th, 2006, 03:35 PM
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What a coincidence -- 2 evenings ago, I watched "A Wedding" by the lately deceased Robert Altman. In it, Lillian Gish (a guest at the Ch duPlessis) appears, as does the granddaughter of her Ch duPlessis host Eugene O'Neill, ie Geraldine Chaplin (daughter of Charlie Chaplin and Oona O'Neill).
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Here's a simple tip I learned when I was in Italy on business last year. You will get a lot more hits for hotels if you use the local country's Google. Example: www.google.fr
for France. Most web sites are also in English.
Here's a web site I ferreted out after much search that has given me a good variety of hotels in the Loire area.
http://en.federal-hotel.com/recherche-hotel.htm
Just type in the city or town you wish to visit and check it out.
for France. Most web sites are also in English.
Here's a web site I ferreted out after much search that has given me a good variety of hotels in the Loire area.
http://en.federal-hotel.com/recherche-hotel.htm
Just type in the city or town you wish to visit and check it out.
