Holiday gite in Cozes, Charente Maritime, France
Luxury Gite with Pool in a Peaceful Setting
Stylish and Spacious Holiday Home, 5 min from Sea
Sleeps 8 (4 Bedrooms)
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This delightful detached villa of 300 m² in the grounds of an 18th Century estate is a former dairy, recently converted to the very highest standards to create a stylish and spacious holiday home in a peaceful rural location 5 mins from the sea and close to local amenities. Comfortably sleeps 8 plus baby (cot, highchair and baby listeners available). Sofa bed on Mezzanine sleeps extra 2. With its own extensive private grounds and heated pool, Le Grand Theuillac offers its guests privacy and seclusion with a wide variety of sightseeing and leisure opportunities nearby. A large private garden at the rear of the villa has sunloungers, covered terrace and built-in BBQ. Satellite TV with DVD is provided, together with a high quality sound system and WiFi broadband facility. The villa is cleaned weekly and bed linen, household linen, towels and beach towels are provided and laundered weekly. Additional services are detailed on our website. Resident English Estate Managers are on hand.
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Prices Currency Conversion
| Rental periods | |
| January - March | £750 |
| February - April | £850 |
| 1 - 22 May | £1050 |
| 23 May - 30 June | £1200 |
| July / August | £1900 |
| September | £1200 |
| October | £950 |
| November - Christmas | £850 |
| Easter / Christmas | £950 |
Notes on prices
Prices are for the property per week in UK pounds.
Winter lets negotiable depending on length of stay. Out of season long weekends £500. Demand for peak summer weeks is high.
Changeover day
Villa rental is usually Saturday to Saturday although extra days may be booked if available. We try to be helpful with legitimate or unavoidable cancellations and if we re-let the period we will happily refund your payment, less any direct costs incurred.
Accommodation
| Bedrooms: | Bedroom 1 - king size bed and en-suite Bedroom 2 - king size Bedroom 3 - twin beds Bedroom 4 - queen size - convertible to twin beds. All bedrooms have plenty of space and 2 have French doors opening out onto the gardens. |
| Bathrooms: | 2 luxurious fully tiled bathrooms (one en-suite to main bedroom) each with large bath, separate shower and twin wash basins. Separate WC just off main entrance hall. |
| Kitchen: | Well equipped kitchen includes cooker, ceramic hob, dishwasher, fridge/freezer, microwave and kettle. Extra two ring hotplate available for use outside with barbecue if needed. |
| Utility Room: | Separate utility room with washing machine, tumble dryer and ironing facilities. Whirleygig for outside drying. |
| Living Rooms: | The lounge has an enormous arched picture window with doors opening onto the side garden and overlooking open countryside. A light and airy room, very comfortably furnished with an open log fire as well as under-floor heating. |
| Other: | The dining room seats up to 10 people and has French doors leading out to the covered terrace and private rear garden. |
| Cleaning/towels/ linen/maid service: |
The villa is cleaned weekly and all household linen and towels are provided and laundered weekly. |
Notes on accommodation
Open log fire and under floor heating in the lounge. Thermostatically controlled electric heating throughout. Accommodation is almost all on one level so the villa is suitable for all ages! Cot, highchair and Tomy baby listeners available if required. No smoking within the villa.
- hob/stove,
- oven,
- fridge/freezer,
- microwave,
- dishwasher,
- washing machine,
- tumble dryer,
- iron/ironing board,
- satellite tv,
- tv,
- telephone,
- internet access,
- central heating,
- cot,
- high chair,
- barbecue,
- pool heating,
- shared pool
Accessibility
Not suitable for wheelchairs but excellent for anyone with slight mobility problems. Apart from single steps at the entrance doors/patios and 2 steps down from the Dining Room to Lounge, the property is on one level.
Outside
A large private garden at the rear of the villa has sun loungers and a covered terrace with table and chairs and built-in BBQ – ideal for relaxing and dining outdoors. Separate sun loungers and parasols provided by the 12m x 6m heated swimming pool a short way from the villa (max 50m) shared occasionally if the owner's private house is occupied.
Coast/Beach
Only 10 mins away, the village of Meschers has the finest local beaches, with several sandy coves ideal for swimming and sunbathing. You can also visit caves hollowed out of the white cliffs by wind and waves. Just a little way up the coast, St Georges de Didonne has fine white sandy beaches backed by dunes and pine trees. Lots more fantastic beaches within reach (including some famous surfing beaches) many backed by dunes and forests.
Golf
There are several golf courses in the area; the Maine Gaudin at St-Palais, the Louis Rouyer at Saintes and the Prée at La Rochelle. These 3 courses combine varied technical aspects with something to please players of all levels. Delightful surroundings, views over the sea, forested sections, unspoilt countryside and outstanding facilities. The nearest two are at St Palais, near Royan (15 miles), carved out of the heart of the Courbre forest with narrow sloping fairways, lined with tall pines and mimosa. Superb views over the trees to the Atlantic. Slightly further (25 miles), south of Boyardville, 8kms from St Pierre d'Oleron, a flat(ish) links-type course on the shores of the Atlantic. It includes a large number of water hazards with vegetation typical of sand dunes. 9 holes, 2908m, par 36. In addition to these 3, there are 6 more – 3 x 9-hole courses at Rochefort and on the Ile de Ré and Ile d’Oléron and as many 6-hole courses at La Jarne, Montendre and St Porchaire.
Special interest holidays
The resident English Estate Managers are on hand should you need assistance and, at certain times during the season, they offer additional services such as the occasional 'cuisine bourgeois' oven-ready dinner and accompanied bike rides incorporating visits to local places of interest.
Travel
By car, we are 4½ hours drive from the ferry port at St Malo and 1 hour from airports at Bordeaux and La Rochelle. There are train links but car hire is recommended to fully explore all the region has to offer.
Distances
Cozes 1½m, Talmont 4m, Meschers 6m, Saint Georges de Didonne 8m, Royan 12m, Saintes 16m, La Palmyre Zoo 20m and a little further away, Cognac 30m, Ile d’Oléron, Rochefort, Iles de Re and Aix, St Jean d’Angely, Angouleme and more.
Further details
Cozes has a full range of good independent shops, an ancient covered market and a good Champion supermarket so, unless you like the hypermarché (nearest in Royan), there would be no need to go further. Here you will also find a monument to the original master of Le Grand Theuillac, a republican mariner and one-time prisoner of England during one of our many scuffles with France! Don’t panic, things have been smoothed over in the last 215 years! Voted one of the most beautiful villages in France, Talmont, our nearest seaside village, is a bastide built in 1284 by Edward 1st of England and its appearance has hardly changed since then. Inside the walls, 17th and 18th century houses surround the harbour and hollyhocks and roses line its many pretty lanes.
Booking notes
Deposit of 20% with your booking and the balance 8 weeks prior to arrival. A returnable deposit of £250 is also required to cover accidental damage to or at the property, any additional cleaning, the cost of telephone calls and/or other services not included in the rental price (although we won’t chase you for the occasional broken wine glass – we accept small breakages as part of holiday life).
Guest comments
(1) We had such a lovely holiday, definitely the best family holiday to date and thank you once again for making it that bit more special. I'm afraid it's back down to earth with a bump today and wishing we were lounging by the pool! Both Max & Amy have made scrap books of their holiday and have taken them into school today, including a piccie of Robbie the Pool Robot! (ANKERS FAMILY) (2) WOW, we loved everything about this place - wonderful for grown-ups and children alike - 2 weeks have flown by, there's just so much to do here. We're really looking forward to coming back next year! (KELLY FAMILY). (3) What a fabulous holiday ... hosts who looked after us so well and with lots of laughs yet somehow made us feel we were holidaying in wonderful solitude.....The villa itself is absolutely stunning, so much space and light - a gorgeous interior and so clean we felt like we were the first guests ever to stay there.....we have already enquired about a return visit... (KNIGHTS FAMILY)
For booking and further information
Steve and Andrea Storey
Tel: (France) + 33 546 97 68 58
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