シャトー ドゥ ラ ビュシュリー(Chateau de La Bucherie)

This the 2D time we stop over here on the way to south of France and it is such a beautiful place with amazing amenities and a beautiful family business. I would so recommend it, solo or family! It is a little corner of heaven!

Such a great non pretentious low key place, peaceful, quiet, and unique. Three quarters of the village work for the daily functioning of the Château. The rooms are modest and clean. Breakfast offers many food items made from the Château's own property, bread is baked daily and the rest is supplemented by local producers. Make reservations with the very own restaurant or you will need to drive a bit to any nearby cities.

The chateau is beautiful inside and out. It is well maintained and richly but comfortably decorated. It felt like staying at someone’s VERY nice home. Claire was helpful and pleasant. Boots were available after a rainy day to take a brief walk on the property. Highly recommend.

The hotel was pretty however the shower room/toilet smelled like a sewer. It was really bad. This hotel, so called hotel, does not offer any mean to feed a guest apart from the breakfast. We arrived late and learnt that the only restaurant the property has does not reserve a table for the staying guest hence we had to drive a half an hour back and forth at late evening with a hungry 3 and 6 years old.

The château is truly a magnificent place. We only stayed for one night, but I wish we would have stayed for longer. The surrounding are magical, the rooms beautiful, and the staff very professional. Would recommend!

If only I’d taken note of the previous reviewer, I’d have saved my husband and I from a really rather miserable experience. We booked a superior double room. We arrived, delighted by the outside appearance of the chateau, but were shown to a room in an annex which was definitely not superior. The windows were nailed shut, which meant there was no ventilation in the room. The bed was a very small double, hardly bigger than a large single. The staff were not helpful. It was suggested we left the outside door open for ventilation! There was no real warmth or concern for us, despite having paid £270 for two night’s stay. I recommend you do not visit this hotel. We are left not knowing where will be staying for our second night. It has sadly rather taken the icing off our long looked forward to mini break to see Monet’s garden.

Avoid. This is not a hotel. It is run like a hostel. No reception or assistance 8pm-8am except in an "emergency". No kitchen to get food or tended bar. Friendly staff but they are limited in what they can do for you. In fairness, it is a very beautiful chateau with gorgeous grounds. BUT that's it. The detail is a disaster. It is clear that corners have been cut in the renovations and cheap fixtures used. It's all got an attitude of "that'll do". In some instances it’s actually dangerous. There isn’t enough space to detail all the problems we had staying here. A poorly designed bathroom, bath fitted wrong way round rendering it unusable & the absence of a shower curtain resulting in a pond all over the bathroom floor (very dangerous). Most rooms had this problem. Ongoing noisy renovation works in part of the building. Dirty, holey towels. A slim breakfast offering at €18pp, nothing cooked except eggs, no effort to cater for allergies despite advanced notice. Ants infesting the room with the presence of any food at all (I had brought my own gluten free bread) and getting into everything - even the bed! Restaurant closed Mon/Tues, no other kitchen onsite to get food outside of restaurant hours unless you pay €35pp for “plats froides” (read: ham & cheese). Self-serve bar only (no ice). Terrible wi-fi & poor general internet. Extortionate prices for extras. No air-con, exposed constantly hot & noisy pipes, pot-hole ridden drive/car park, the list goes on. Stay somewhere else.

Avoid. At least for a year or two whilst they finish/fix the renovations. This is not a hotel. It is run like a hostel. No reception or assistance 8pm-8am except in an "emergency". No kitchen to get food or tended bar (unless you pay €35pp for “plats froides” (i.e. ham/cheese)). Friendly staff but they are limited in what they can do for you. In fairness, it is a beautiful chateau and grounds. Several lounges, a games room, big fires (not on when we were here), large outside (uncovered) terrace. The room we had (a junior) was spacious. BUT the rest and the detail is a disaster. It is clear that corners have been cut with the renovation and cheap fixtures used when trying to get rooms ready for guests. It's all got an attitude of "that'll do". The WiFi is good if you're in the hallway, forget it if you're in your bedroom or in the breakfast room. And the general internet signal isn't great here. Don't bother staying here Mon-Weds. Almost everywhere around is closed so you'll struggle to find elsewhere for meals, and the hotel restaurant is closed Mon and Tues. The breakfast is available daily but is not good if you have any allergies at all, even if you give them advanced notification they don't bother to get in any alternative items for you. You have to bring your own gluten free bread and still pay the €18pp. There is nobody to greet you or show you what's what, there's no ambient music and the room echoes. For everyone who doesn't have allergies, the breakfast is pretty thin: two types of ham and cheese, yoghurt, pastries and bread, overripe apples & pears, the kitchen can make fried or boiled eggs. There is coffee and tea, and a from-concentrate juice (only one, mind). Nothing else cooked and no other hot items. Oh, and it's only served until 9.30am and you'll be joined by ants on the table (more on that below). The bathroom of our room was an absolute disaster. At first glance it looks impressive: gold taps, bath, rainfall shower. But then you realise they've put the bath tap on the wall at the end your head is supposed to be, and the bath tilts downwards towards the drain end, so you can't actually use the bath as a bath (trust me, I tried, it did not go well). There's no shower curtain so taking a standing up shower means the floor becomes a pond. Thankfully we'd asked for other towels (because one provided had holes and stains on it) so we had spares which we used to cover the floor afterwards. It’s dangerous! The water also flowed into the open closet where our suitcases were. Great. When we raised this with the staff, there was not a single expression of surprise. Everyone seems to know this is a problem, but the rooms are still being allocated. We were offered two alternative rooms. Unfortunately, the first was next to a room with ongoing renovation & associated noise. The other had the same problem - no shower curtain. Not worth the hassle of changing. We also returned to our room to find that the GF bread I'd had to bring with me had

Lovely surroundings, castle, rooms and garden. We have a lovely evening on the terrace and biljard room. So service minded staff and the breakfast was great. As the have been informed about the closed restaurant before arrival, that wasn’t a problem.