CHARDEL CHRISTIAN

Wonderful place, charming rooms, great breakfast. Highly recommended.

Beautiful place with a kind and sweet host. Idyllic environment and rooms.

This is a magnificent chateau - like stepping into a bygone era. There are areas which need renovation (the breakfast room is splendid but cold and draughty) but the common areas and bedrooms are marvellous. Our room was huge, clean, warm and comfortable with a massive bathroom. One room (ours) doesn't have a key but it's really not an issue. Victoria, a delightful French lady, gave us a very warm welcome, cooked us breakfast each morning (simple but adequate) and was always friendly and helpful. You should be aware that, apart from breakfast, there is no catering here. The chateau has an agreement with the delightful Olivier at the Relais Saint Louis hotel and restaurant just up the road, which has a bar and delicious food options.

We have stayed at the Chateau de la Grand Maison 3 or 4 times before under its previous ownership.||||The chateau still has very comfortable, well equipped, sumptuous bedrooms and fascinating public rooms which the new owners seem to be decorating in a style that very much suits the place. There are still the silk table cloths and bed covers, large fluffy bath towels (unusual in France), free WiFi, the lovely trees in the garden and bread at breakfast of the highest quality.||||The staff member who greeted us and left us quite alone overnight (this might be an unsettling experience for some guests) was welcoming as was the Madam who served us breakfast (adequate but not very imaginative).||||Our room (the green one) was also nicely cool after our week's experience of France's heatwave.||||But I sorely missed the experience of returning in the dusk from a restaurant, recommended and booked by the owner, for him to emerge from the basement kitchen and to insist on sharing one or more petit digestifs with us.||||Then next morning his delightful wife insisting we had egg with our breakfast as we selected from a table groaning with home-made jams, bread, pastries, fruit etc. Then further insisting we took what we wanted from the table for our picnic lunch.||||So the chateau is still well worth a visit and I/we will return. The challenge for the new owner is to find a way to restore some of the missing sumptuous magic which the previous owners brought to this lovely old house.

We cannot recommend this chateau enough. It is a beautiful location, in a lovely village, just everything you want when you head to Normandy. Nice continental breakfast, lovely service, and an amazingly beautiful place, with plenty of lawn space and porch space for sitting outside, located within the village of Belleme and within good distance of amenities, etc., but also very private and tranquil. We look very forward to our next trip!

We stayed here this summer whilst visiting Le Perche. Leo and his lovely wife have made this an oasis. With such an historic atmosphere and super comfortable rooms it was hard not to have a lovely time.

Leo is a great host, very enjoyable stay.

Plutôt très grosse maison bourgeoise que château mélant différentes époques mais avec un charme certain. Séjour très agréable dans deux immenses chambres pour mon épouse, ma fille et moi même. Très proche du centre ce qui rend tout accessible à pied.Excellent petit déjeuner et accueil charmant de la part de la jeune fille qui s'est occupé de nous.