This time-honoured Logis de France hotel may be modest but genuinely hospitable and honest (to goodness) would, perhaps, be more accurate epithets. Indeed so much TLC has been lavished by Laetitia Fouasse on this grey stone restaurant-with-rooms that visitors say they feel rather like house guests
Mme Fouasse is always welcoming, efficient and admirably helpful. And her country auberge, tucked away in the verdant Sienne valley, is deemed very comfortable and amazing value. The pretty décor shows her assured feminine touch, enhanced by unusually attractive flower arrangements.
The smart restaurant (awarded a B=Michelin Bib Gourmand in 2014) is clearly the domain of her partner, Cyril Lebehot. Expect noteworthy, traditional cuisine and a very good continental breakfast with delicious jams. There’s a small outdoor terrace for dining in summer. The nicest of the sweet little, personalised bedrooms has a bath, while the rest are just as cosy and equipped with a shower room. Quieter rooms face the steep hillside at the rear of the hotel but traffic noise should not be a problem for those overlooking the minor road at the front.
On the doorstep are the ruins of a 12th century Benedictine abbey, said to be the most complete collection of medieval monastic buildings in Normandy after le Mont-Saint-Michel. And the little-known Christian Dior museum in nearby Granville is open during the summer months.