Les Rosees

Rooms

Peaceful Suite St Honorat on the ground floor, has French windows in the sitting room opening onto the garden. The antique panels in the bedroom have been lime-washed first in black, then in white, then orange, finally in grey; different colours surface depending on the light, and when the sun sets olive tree silhouettes dance on the walls. Its bath is so big they had to knock down the wall to get it in!

Romantic Suite Isadora is on the first floor and has a big fat ancient beam bisecting the ceiling of the room. It also has a rather large and expensive bed covered in a thick Provencal quilt. The sitting room is wrapped in curving glass - it is one of the loveliest rooms in the house.

Technically speaking, Suite Serguey is not a suite, but in our opinion it is the best room. It’s up on the top floor, airy, light-filled and has a stone fireplace in one corner. You spark it up, stick on some music, then swing next door, pour a deep bath and watch the flames through a pane of glass. Its roof was made for stargazing, too.

The fourth suite, Suite St Marguerite, is on the ground floor with direct access to a leafy garden (small private terrace), and is particularly suited to a couple with 1 child. Its walls are distress-painted with natural pigments in rich gold and green.

If you come in summer, you can stay in a refurbished gypsy caravan, named Suite Gypsy, parked out in the gardens, a charmingly quirky option, with its spacious wood-lined interiors (double/twin room, sitting area, bathroom with big tub) and its flower-ringed wooden deck outside.

All have large double/kingsize or twin beds, grand bathrooms with inviting tubs or powerful rainfall showers, CD players, air con/heating and a minibar.

Features include:

• Air conditioning
• Minibar/fridge
• WiFi

Eating

Sublime food throughout the day flows from the kitchen. Breakfast (extra cost) is mostly taken somewhere in the garden, either in the shade of a tree or under a parasol: jugs of orange juice, baskets of freshly-baked pastries, home-made jams (they collect the berries from the Murrier tree outside the house and forage for figs in the woods of Mougins to make preserves), goats cheese and scrambled eggs, Herbes de Provence hams, creamy yoghurts, French coffee or English breakfast tea. If you come in winter and breakfast inside, the candelabra on the grand piano is lit.

If you want to stay around all day, the chef can whisk up something for lunch: salads, sandwiches, a plate of cheese, local mushrooms in season, and a cool glass of wine.

For dinner,Table d'hotes restaurant offers set daily-changing dishes cooked by gastronomic extraordinaire Fabien Morosolli. You might get ginger and chicken soup with crème fraiche, local trout in a white wine sauce, and raspberry tart with vanilla ice cream and a fruit coulis. Sometimes a barbecue can be fired up. Thanks to the thriving garden, much of the fresh produce is plucked straight from the plant and into the pot - you can even go along with the chef to pick which vegetables you'd like to eat that evening.

There are plenty of places to eat out should you desire to leave the gardens. In the nearby ancient hilltop village of Mougins (a 5-minute drive) you’ll find the Michelin two-star Le Moulin de Mougins. For good country cooking and friendly service, try Le Petit Fouet, which doubles as a shop selling jars of truffles, fois gras, coq au vin. Our favourite spot was the busy Bistro de Mougins where we ate the most delicious duck breast with ginger and honey.

Features include:

• Minibar/fridge
• Restaurant
• Restaurants nearby

Activities

• Take a trip to nearby Mougins, a pretty medieval hilltop village famous for its restaurants. It also has a number of commercial art galleries and a photography museum which is worth a stop to see the permanent top floor collection of photos of Picasso taken by Robert Doisneau, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, André Villers and others
  
• Visit the beaches of Cannes and Antibes. You can hire a lounger on a private beach, be served on hand and foot, saunter down to the clear blue sea and dip in a toe. Try La Garoupe on the Cap d’Antibes for the real Riviera experience, a little like being an extra in a Jean-Luc Goddard movie. Fabulous.
  
• Go to the markets at Biot, Tourette-sur-Loup and Valbonne, ancient small towns of impeccable architectural beauty to which the loveliest local produce comes once a week
  
• Grasse is famous for its perfume factory, visit and you can make your own scent. Alternatively go to Bar-sur-Loup for the sweet factory and the waterfall
  
• Nice is great for Matisse and Chagall; both have museums dedicated to their work here. There’s also the flower market and the old town is worth a peek
  
• Cannes is excellent for shopping, also for daytrips to the local islands in the bay, or for watching the world go by. Cannes is cool, no doubt about it
  
• Sit around by the pool and do nothing! You can also indulge in a massage (they have a special treatment room)

Activities on site or nearby include:

• Golf
• Shopping / markets

Kids

Although the house is small, up to 3 children at a time are very welcome and extra beds are available.

Best for:

Babies (0-1 years), Children (4-12 years)

Family friendly accommodation:

Suite St. Honorat is the best as it can accommodate up to 3 extra kids on rollaway beds and the day bed. The other suites can fit either an extra bed or baby cot. We'd recommend St. Honorat or St. Marguerite as they are on the ground floor and have easy access to the gardens, St Marguerite is particularly suited to a couple with 1 child.

Extra Beds Available

For more family-friendly places, see our Kids Collection

Location

Les Rosées is situated in the village of Mougins, which is near Grasse, north of Cannes in the south of France.

By Air:
Nice Airport is very close (25km).

From the Airport
Grab a cab or hire a car (see below).

By Car:
Car hire is available at both Nice Ville station and the airport - see our car rental recommendations.

By Rail:
From London you can take the Eurostar to Lille, then change for direct TGV trains down to Nice Ville. London to Nice takes about 9 hours. Car hire is available at the station.

Detailed directions will be sent to you when you book through i-escape.