A hand-picked portfolio of exciting and unusual places to stay in some of the world's most beautiful and fascinating locations - put together by a small team of passionate travellers, and backed up by an award-winning online booking service…
read more >Choose from over 1,000 boutique hotels, stylish villas, city apartments, eco-retreats, safari lodges and tailormade tours. We visit them all and pick only our favourites.
The joys of France need little introduction: superb cuisine, fine
wines, stylish seaside towns, languid medieval villages and, quite
simply, a great quality of life. Where else would you find 345
types of cheese, over 1,000 appellations of wine, and such a
reverent appreciation of both?
There’s a deep passion for art of all kinds, from Tati
films to techno music, and no shortage of contemporary talent to
add to (and challenge) the masters. In Provence you can walk
through the sunflower fields of Van Gogh before checking into the
room where Picasso and Hemingway slept (not together, I hasten to
add). In Paris, city of light, romance and art, you can read Le
Monde in the café where Sartre and Beauvoir hung out, or
wander the lanes of Amélie's Montmartre.
Its landscapes are incredibly diverse: the sandy beaches of
the Atlantic coast; the flamingo-filled floodplains of the
Camargue; idyllic, lavender-scented Provencal hills chosen by the
Romans; the rolling bucolic gastronomic countryside; the Côte
d’Azur sunny playground of the rich and famous; the snowy
peaks and vast valleys of the Alps. You can come every year for 20
years, and see a new pays each time.
The summer crowds, especially in August, when the whole country is on holiday (Paris, meanwhile, empties). The high prices and impossible parking of Paris and some Provencal towns. The formality and pride of some restaurants - not the place to ask for a quick burger and fries. The sheer style of the Côte d’Azur - not for shrinking violets. Don't expect your hosts to speak English - even if they can, it's only polite to start in French (however basic).
In Paris:
In Marseille:
Many questions are already answered in our FAQs, otherwise, e-mail us at: help@i-escape.com
Copyright ©2010 i-escape.com All rights reserved.
