Chateau De La Houlberdiere

Highlights

• This chateau in the Loire Valley is a wonderful family holiday venue, with plenty of entertainment options for the little ones.
• You're only 20 minutes from Le Mans!
• The blend of old and new: you'll love the contrasting elegant formal dining room and contemporary kitchen.

You should know

• You may hear a little noise from the road from time to time.
• You’ll want to bring a car, as the nearest towns are a 5 minute drive away.

This elegant country chateau in the Loire Valley will help you return to your senses. Enjoy a leisurely breakfast in the modern open kitchen, then wander the 450 acre estate. You can fish or boat on the lake, or hop on a bicycle to explore the French countryside. On Saturday the market at Noyen-sur-Sarthe will introduce you to Loire Valley specialties - keep an eye out for cheese, tarte Tatin, and sablés (the preferred biscuit).

Chateau de la Houlberdiere comprises nine beautiful double bedrooms, one of which can be converted readily to a second living room or study. The nine bedrooms are each decorated to a theme, and three of them have the added privacy of en suite bathrooms, some with elegant roll top bathtubs. There’s plenty of entertainment for the kids including games, toys, bicycles, an all-weather tennis court, and even your very own private pool.

Chateau de la Houlberdiere is perfectly located with historic towns and villages dotted all around. It is 20 minutes to the centre of le Mans and under five hours from London by Eurostar. Fast trains to Paris from le Mans take less than an hour.

The nearest towns are a five minute drive away, and you will find an array of supermarkets, boulangeries, charcuteries, town squares and cafés and weekly markets.

The Loire valley region is full of old-world villages and story-book chateaux. It was once fought over by Gauls, Romans, Visigoths and even Attila the Hun. You can roll through the lush valley, visiting fortresses in Amboise and Angers, UNESCO-designated Chartres Cathedral and the Gothic cathedral in Nantes.

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