Hotel
Le Puy-Sainte-Reparade, Provence
Villa La Coste
A 31-suite hotel built into the hillside of a 200-hectare organic vineyard between Aix-en-Provence and the Luberon Regional Natural Park.
Price on request
Europe · France
Provence
Lavender in July, markets every morning and hotels in old bastides among the vines.
Our notes
Provence is the France people imagine: hill villages, Roman ruins, plane tree shaded squares and markets that rotate through the week. The Luberon and the Alpilles have the best small hotels, many in converted bastides and mas with pools and kitchen gardens. Lavender flowers in late June and July, the vineyards turn in October, and the mistral clears the sky in between. We arrange a driver for the villages, tables at the restaurants in Les Baux and Saint-Rémy, and truffle hunting in winter for those who come off season.
Stay
Hotels and resorts in Provence
Hotel
Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Provence
Le Mas de Pierre
A Relais & Châteaux estate outside Saint-Paul-de-Vence, about thirty minutes from Nice, with two categories of rooms, a Michelin-starred restaurant and a 2,000 square metre spa.
Price on request
Hotel
Provence, Provence
Capelongue
A Provençal hotel on the edge of the Claparèdes plateau above Bonnieux, with views across the Petit Luberon, two restaurants and a spa built around a Roman bath and hammam.
Price on request
Hotel
Provence, Provence
Airelles Gordes, La Bastide
A 16th-century palace above the village of Gordes, with views across the Luberon Valley and four restaurants including Clover Gordes by Jean-François Piège.
Price on request
Hotel
Provence, Provence
Domaine de Fontenille
A 17th-century bastide at Lauris in the Luberon, family-run since 2016, with 25 rooms, an organic vineyard dating to 1638 and a restaurant fed by its own kitchen garden.
Price on request
Hotel
Provence, Provence
Crillon le Brave
A hotel built from a dozen seventeenth and eighteenth century houses around the parish church of Crillon-le-Brave, with views across the Vaucluse to Mont Ventoux.
Price on request