Les Rosees

Rooms

There are five suites; four in the main house and a separate garden cabin. We stayed in peaceful ground floor Suite St Honorat whose French windows in the sitting room annexe open onto the garden. Antique wall panels have been lime-washed first in black, then white, orange, finally grey so different hues surface depending on the light. Its bath is so big they had to knock down the wall to get it in!

Romantic Suite Isadora on the first floor has a big ancient beam bisecting the ceiling, and a rather large bed covered in a thick Provencal quilt. The sitting room is wrapped in curving glass – one of the loveliest rooms in the house.

Technically speaking, top floor light-filled Suite Serguey is not a suite, but in our opinion it is the best room. Spark up the stone fireplace, stick on some music, pour a deep bath and watch the flames dance through a pane of glass while bathing. Its roof was made for stargazing, too.

The fourth suite, Suite St Marguerite, is on the ground floor with direct access to a leafy garden (small private terrace). Its walls are distress-painted with natural pigments in rich gold and green.

Romantics can stay in charmingly quirky Suite Gypsy, a cabin parked out in the gardens, which has spacious wood-lined interiors (double/twin room, sitting area, bathroom with big tub) and flower-fringed wooden deck outside.

All five have large double/kingsize or twin beds, good bathrooms with inviting tubs or powerful rainfall showers, air con/heating and a minibar.

Features include:

• Air conditioning
• Central heating
• Cots available
• Minibar
• Radio
• WiFi

Eating

Sublime food flows from the kitchen. Breakfast (extra cost) is mostly taken on the terrace overlooking the garden: jugs of orange juice, baskets of freshly-baked pastries, home-made jams (they collect the berries from the Murrier tree outside the house and forage for figs in the woods to make preserves), goats cheese and scrambled eggs, Herbes de Provence hams, creamy yoghurts, French coffee or English breakfast tea. If you come in winter and breakfast inside, the candelabra on the grand piano is lit.

If you want to stay around all day, the chef can whisk up something for lunch: salads, sandwiches, a plate of cheese, local mushrooms in season, and a cool glass of wine.

For dinner,Table d'hotes restaurant offers set daily-changing dishes cooked by gastronomic extraordinaire Fabien Morosolli. You might get a surprise amuse bouche, ginger and chicken soup with crème fraiche, confit duck in truffle sauce, and pear tarte tatin. Sometimes a barbecue can be fired up. Thanks to the thriving garden, much of the fresh produce is plucked straight from the plant and into the pot – you can even go along with the chef to pick which vegetables you'd like to eat that evening.

There are plenty of places to eat out should you desire to leave the gardens. For good country cooking and friendly service, try Le Petit Fouet, which doubles as a shop selling jars of truffles, fois gras, coq au vin. Our favourite spot was the busy Bistro de Mougins where we ate the most delicious duck breast with ginger and honey.

Features include:

• Lunch by arrangement
• Organic produce
• Restaurant
• Restaurants nearby

Activities

• Must-see Mougins, a pretty medieval hilltop village famous for its restaurants, commercial art galleries, long views and famous visitors, is just 5 minutes away. The photography museum has a permanent collection of photos of Picasso taken by Robert Doisneau, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, André Villers and more
  
• Visit the beaches of Cannes and Antibes. Hire a lounger on a private beach, be served on hand and foot, saunter down to the clear blue sea and dip in a toe. Try La Garoupe on the Cap d’Antibes for the real Riviera experience, a little like being an extra in a Jean-Luc Goddard movie. Fabulous.
  
• Go to the markets at Biot, Tourette-sur-Loup and Valbonne, ancient small towns of impeccable architectural beauty to which the loveliest local produce comes once a week
  
• Grasse is famous for its perfume factory, visit and you can make your own scent. Alternatively go to Bar-sur-Loup for the sweet factory and the waterfall
  
• Nice is great for Matisse and Chagall; both have museums dedicated to their work here. There’s also the flower market and the old town is worth a peek
  
• Cannes is excellent for shopping, for day trips to the local islands in the bay, or for watching the world go by. Cannes is cool, no doubt about it
  
• Sit around by the pool and do nothing! You can also indulge in a massage (they have a special treatment room)

Activities on site or nearby include:

• Golf
• Historical sites
• Museums / galleries
• Shopping / markets
• Swimming
• Traditional cultures

Kids

Although the house is small, up to 3 children at a time are very welcome and extra beds are available.

Best for:

Babies (0-1 years), Children (4-12 years)

Family friendly accommodation:

Suite St. Honorat is the best as it can accommodate up to 3 extra kids on rollaway beds and the day bed. The other suites can fit either an extra bed or baby cot. We'd recommend St. Honorat or St. Marguerite as they are on the ground floor and have easy access to the gardens, St Marguerite is particularly suited to a couple with 1 child.

Cots Available, Extra Beds Available

For more family-friendly places, see our Kids Collection

Location

Les Rosées is situated in the village of Mougins, which is near Grasse, north of Cannes in the south of France.

By Air:
Nice Airport is very close (25km).

From the Airport
Grab a cab or hire a car.

By Rail:
From London you can take the Eurostar to Lille, then change for direct TGV trains down to Nice Ville. London to Nice takes about 9 hours.

By Car:
Car hire is available at both Nice Ville station and the airport – see our car rental recommendations.

Detailed directions will be sent to you when you book through i-escape.