PETIT FRANCK

What a find. Rather than stay in a boring mainstream motel, we search our beautiful owner run small hotels or houses with room to stay in. On a trip from the UK to Italy we chose Chateau de La as its beautiful and quiet to stay, just minutes from the motorways and quite easy to find. The owner was there to greet us, and showed us to our enormous bedroom. Room 123 had a huge comfortable bed with and huge bathroom with two sinks, a bath and a shower for two. Brilliant after a 700km drive!. Veronique booked a local restaurant (Les Moblots in St Julien, 7 minutes by car. Food fabulous and made a tiring day great , see my other review in the area) and even though my French is poor we were able to talk together. After a quiet night, breakfast was fresh and ready, then a tidy up and we left without fuss, and making sure this was in the book for future stop overs when passing. Many thanks for a fabulous stay.

Spent only one night here and wished it could have been more. A lovely Chateau on beautiful grounds. We had a very large room with a huge window with a great view of horses in a field grazing. Took a walk around the grounds and gardens as it was a very warm day. The owner could not have been nicer or more helpful. Breakfast was a delight with crusty breads, croissants, pain au chocolate, yogurt, that wonderful butter and home made strawberry preserves. All served on real porcelain and silver. Would return for sure. In a great location for a tour of the Beaujolais wine vineyards.

We booked two rooms for three nights at this charming, very clean and comfortable chateau. We arrived a couple of hours before check-in but explained to the hostess that we had not had lunch but had a picnic we had bought at the local supermarket and asked if she minded us sitting in the garden. Immediately a table cloth, cutlery, plates, glasses and water appeared, so we had a rather posh picnic. Lovely French coffee followed. Restaurants close at 2:30pm almost everywhere in Lyon or the surrounding areas.||The rooms were huge and very comfortable with beautiful large windows that looked out on to fields with horses, geese and cows...very relaxing.||After a wake up call from the geese a delicious breakfast was served every morning and the hostess Veronique made the worlds best hot chocolate according to our teenage son!! ||Veronique also booked our taxis to the wedding and back and recommended and booked some amazing restaurants for us to try. ||All furnishings were clean, comfortable and well maintained.||If ever in the area again we will definitely return to Chateau de la Venerie!!!||Merci Veronique!!!

Stayed at the Chateau with friends on our recent vacation in France. The experience was amazing. Lovely setting, delightful host (Veroniqué) and hospitality that cannot be matched. I would strongly recommend it to anyone in the area. Close to Lyon but another world. Horse farm across the stream is great, the horses come to visit in the morning with breakfast. A must stay!

En route to the Provence our family of 4 stayed overnight at Chateau de la Vénerie. A beautiful venue in the Lyon area. We were welcomed by the friendly host Veronique. Although we were a few hours early we could already access our rooms. The rooms are spacious with a nice view. Veronique made a reservation for us at a nice restaurant on the river bank of the Saône in a village nearby. |We planned to leave early the next morning and told Veronique we wouldn't use breakfast. Although breakfast usually is served as of 7.30am she was more than willing to serve us breakfast at 6am. We kindly thanked her for the service, but said it wasn't necessary. |We enjoyed our stay and the friendly hospitality.

If you are ever in the Lyon region or Beaujolais region this is the place to stay. A huge room with a comfortable bed, an incredible view of horses and geese in the meadow. A great breakfast and the price is very reasonable. The host is very gracious and informative. I've been to a lot of chateau b&b's and this ranks in the top five.

This is very special. Veronique makes you feel at home. She is great company and a brilliant source of history about the region as well as the family property.|The room is huge and very comfortable. Nothing is missing.|The view of the gardens with the ducks and horses is beautiful and if you're lucky enough to be there during the frog's season of amour you will have plenty of 'music'.|The surrounding region is beautiful and the restaurant Clochemerle is worth the visit alone.|This is a very special destination.

We booked 2 rooms at the Chateau for 1 night whilst travelling from the Dordogne to Beaune.||We were greeted by the hostess and taken to our rooms overlooking the garden and we could not believe the size of both bedrooms each with brand new en-suites.||Our room excluding the en-suite was approximately 50 square metres with the second being about 40M but with a bigger en-suite and massive walk in shower. ||The owner recommended and booked a restaurant on or behalf that was excellent.||The breakfast next morning had a range of bread, pastries, jams, fresh orange and hot drinks.||Great value for such size bedrooms.