FranceVilla - Spekdam 23

Eerste keer ervaring met Francevilla, altijd beetje spannend natuurlijk! Maar alles is dik naar wens geweest. Superfijn contact en snelle reacties. Alle vragen worden snel beantwoord en opgelost. Wij hebben villa Mon Desir gehuurd in Anglars Nozac. Fijn huis, wel echt franse slag, maar echt van genoten. Heerlijk zwembad, fantastisch uitzicht en prachtige sterrenhemel ? We komen nog een keer terug.

We had an absolutely wonderful vacation - the castle is truly extraordinary! Our kids will remember it forever.

Dear Lydia, we are back from France and we have been very satisfied with the Chateau Lotoise. All was o.k. From the welcome with Pierre-Louis until the departure on Saturday. The weather was great all the days and we have used the pool, the terraces in front and behind the house also every day. The kitchen was fine and we used it daily for cooking, so that the restaurant has no business with us. A marvelous place to make holidays, quiet and peaceful. Best regards Walter

Raphaelle is a lovely home which belongs to Bruno & Sandra. The directions provided brings you to a small hamlet called La Maison de Muguet. Just as you come into La Bachellerie take a right turn, takes you across the railway line. The road goes round to the right and then left, it is on the left with a small road up to the gates with Bruno’s vegetable garden with chickens on the right. The pictures of the house don’t really do it justice. The gardens are large with lots of flowers and interesting spots to chill out. Our 2 dogs loved the grounds as they could nose away as the garden is surrounded with a fence. Theo did find a way out twice. The house has 4 good size bedrooms with lots of wardrobe space. There are 2 toilets, a lovely bathroom all with beautiful views. The kitchen, dining and living room are open plan with large doors leading out to the patio and gardens. It is equipped with all that you need for your stay with Bruno & Sandra leaving some welcomed wine and homemade jam, this with fresh flowers from the gardens was a nice touch when you arrive. We rented the property to enable us to rest and recuperate and the property provided this. There are good supermarkets nearby in Terrasson-Lavilledieu, Montignac and Thenon with all the shops you need in Brive-la-Gaillarde, with a large farmers market worth walking round and sampling the products. As this was our 4th year visiting the area, we only went out a few times to enjoy the history, food and wine, the places we visited were beautiful medieval buildings with rivers running through the towns. Périgueux was lovely and we had a beautiful fine dining 3 course lunch in L'Epicurien. Well worth visiting. In the old town of Terrasson-Lavilledieu is well worth a visit, again some lovely restaurants. Montignac is also worth a visit and has a Vet across from a large Intermarche. Bruno and Sandra, have a beautiful home. Many thanks to Bruno for providing us with home grown tomatoes and walnuts which were magnificent. We were blessed with sunshine for our two weeks stay, the pool was used every day. There is a fully equipped annex beside the pool where the washing machine is housed. This has without a doubt, been the best house we have stayed in. If you want relaxation and a modern home, close to amenities, then this is the place for you. We loved sitting outside in the evening talking, listening to music and watching the stars.

We spent three wonderful weeks at Villa Batista. The house is very nicely decorated, absolutely clean and everything you need is available. The large pool is fantastic, the property has a great location and is completely fenced to the delight of our Yorkie lady. For her it was paradise. We spend our vacation for many years only in holiday homes, in Spain, Holland and USA. The Villa Batista is by far one of the best houses ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ and we will certainly come back. We have booked for the second time with FRANCEVILLA and we are very satisfied. Gabriele & Michael

We stayed in Villa Saint Léon during the COVID pandemic and could not have selected a better villa: perfect location, very privately situated, with a large garden, nice heated swimming pool, spectacular view on the small valley, fully equiped villa with everything you could imagine that you could need. If you don’t want to go anywhere, you could easily stay at the villa for several weeks without being disturbed. We could even imagine the house being ours and never leave again. :)

We rented the pictured gite in Milhac, southern France for 2 weeks in August. This review is an honest review from a regular traveller to the region, who has rented many gites over the years and what I am about to share with you should put you off using Francevilla.nl. We paid approximately £4000 for this holiday, and we only get to go on holiday every few years as a complete family. We felt confident that this was the perfect place for us. The Maison Milhac, in the images supplied, looks beautiful. And when we arrived, indeed the gite is, or has the potential to be, absolutely amazing. But it was absolutely filthy, and elements of it were dangerous. The pool had a cover missing from the filter in the bottom – leaving a big hole. Two of us, including my 12 year old son, hurt themselves on this hole. The oven had a smashed glass lid, leaving sharp edges. But also: •USED razor, veet hair removal cream (half used), and FINGERNAIL in middle drawer of downstairs bedroom •Window handles removed from window next to the front door, and also one half hanging off in the office next to the wifi router •Blood stains on the sofa next to the television •Chipped plate •Shower in upstairs double bedroom broke off the pipe first time of using, soaking the bathroom. This was fixed when I called the cleaner (Annette and her husband) •Filthy oven and oven hood •Unusable pans and baking utensils – filthy and damaged •Blood stains on the side room soft furnishings •Filthy and broken blinds throughout the whole gite •Dirty floors, and cobwebs everywhere •All mirrors were filthy •Filthy shower and corroded soap holder •Bodily stains on the sheets •Cover missing for pool filter (as described above) – the pool cleaner / chemical man said he would have needed to drain the pool to fix. Serious safety issue – my 12 year old got his whole foot caught in this. Also broken light fitting in pool. •BBQ filthy on arrival. Not cleaned, we had to clean it to use it •Stains on the blue garden chairs (looks like blood) •Oven top sharp edges where it was broken •Sun room windows handles removed, and one left on the side •Cheap plastic cups provided for bathroom (disposable 10 cent ones) •No ironing board in gite •Hole in the carpet of the sun room •Drawer fronts fell off in double bedroom upstairs •Front door of cupboard completely fell off when opened in double bedroom upstairs •Bottom pelments under the cupboards broken in corner. •Dead bugs and flies absolutely everywhere in gite •Shower handle in downstairs double bedroom fell off. Replaced this but easily falls off. •Play area (wooden climbing frame) rotten and almost collapsing •Table top slides on legs of outdoors dining table. Not fixed to legs. •Wifi was very, very slow but I appreciate this is down to location so not a major problem. Broken blinds, filthy floors, filthy windows, filthy mirrors, toenails and used razors in drawer, no ironing board, the fact we had to go to Leclerc and buy our own towels and pans for cooking. The list goes on and on. BE WARNED there are many, many gites out there and your money would be better spent elsewhere. Final note - upon raising our concerns to the owner through the website owners, the response was to offer to refund us our cleaning deposit (a mere 120 euros) - which is a cheek as we spent the first two days cleaning the gite!

We had a fabulous time staying at Belle Vue villa. We had carefully chosen the villa to ensure level access for my disabled Mother in Law, downstairs bathroom and toilet, steps into the pool and private gardens. We were not disappointed, the villa was well equipped throughout with everything you could need. BBQ implements and briquettes were there, table tennis, basketball, football for the kids even a kite for the afternoon winds. If you wanted to sit outside for any meal there were a multitude of options to catch the sun. In the evening, sitting by the pool reading and enjoying a local red wine was truly relaxing. We enjoyed discovering the local area and had a few canoe trips down the Vézère, one from Montignac to Saint Leon and the other from Saint Leon to Les Eyzies. Also visiting the caves Lascaux and La Roque St. Christophe for the troglodyte caves. The kids really enjoyed discovering all the history and wandering round chateaux, avoiding the local bats! Furthermore the local restaurants in Montignac were excellent, Lou bombareau was very relaxed and sociable and catered for the kids with moules. On a rare adult only dinner, Hostellerie La Roseraie didn't disappoint with excellent food. I enjoyed devouring Magret de Canard, a local speciality multiple times!