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  • Quiet, rural area with some agricultural activity

Child friendly gites - Ruche gite at La Grange du Moulin
One of 6 family holiday cottages with two heated pools in sw France Exclusively for families.

Ruche family holiday cottage is one of six French gites on the La Grange du Moulin property, sharing the communal enclosed play garden and swimming pool area. Exclusively for families with young children. Ruche family holiday cottage is second in the row - fairly central and directly opposite the sandpit and play garden - so you can sit back and drink a glass or two of the locally produced Pineau whilst your children play in the garden within view of your terrace. This family gite sleeps 6 in 3 bedrooms . It is approximately 6m by 6m on each floor. There is a spacious open plan ground floor with living and dining areas and a kitchen area. The kitchen is equipped with 4 ring gas hob, work top electric oven/grill, fridge freezer, dishwasher, electric kettle and microwave. the cottage is furnished with the needs of young families in mind - it has everything you need but don't worry about breaking the crystal decanters as there arn't any and if your toddler has a tantrum, the other families will understand as they've all been there! Cot, high chair, booster seat, change mat, toys and books, stair barriers, potty and toilet seat , plastic crockery and cutlery, toddler step an hand blender are standard items in all the cottages. The open tread, cast iron, spiral staircase leads to the first floor which has 1 twin rooms with two single beds (90x200) a king sized master bedroom with 160x200 bed and a double room with standard double bed 140x200 The double bedrooms are is smaller than those in Papillon cottage or Grenier cottage, but this means more spacious 3rd bedrooms.

Ruche gite has an open terrace area to the front and rear with charcoal barbecues at the rear. Two families together may like to let Ruche and Horloge gite s together as there is a space between the two which may be used to put tables together and eat as one large group. The bathroom has a bath with shower attachment, basin and toilet and plenty of hot water and good pressure.

Registration code

(MS)

Facilities

  • No smoking
  • Local contact
  • Safe for small children
  • Dishwasher
  • Washing machine
  • Tumble dryer
  • Iron
  • Fenced garden
  • Baby sitter
  • Cot
  • High chair
  • Playground
  • Internet
  • Hair dryer
  • Bath
  • With swimming pool
  • Heated pool

Availability of 'Ruche - La Grange du Moulin'

Surroundings

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La Grange du Moulin family friendly holiday gites in the Charente Maritime region of Sw France are very centrally located for all the main towns, places of interest and of course the beaches. La Rochelle, Royan and Rochefort on the coast and Poitiers, Angouleme and Niort inland are all just an easy one hours drive away at most. Saintes and Cognac are closer still and have plenty to keep both adults, children and toddlers occupied and entertained. Even Bordeaux with its world famous vineyards and wineries are just a 1hr30 drive away. The Coast with hundreds of miles of coastline is just an easy 1hrs drive but we also have a fabulous inland beach and swimming lake just 30 mins away. The links below take you to our blog posts with more detail on each place. For travel details see here
Child friendly things to do

St Savinien boating
La Rochelle aquarium
La Palmyre animal park
Chateau des Enigmas puzzle trail
Valley des Singes , monkeys
Paleosite , become a neanderthal
Futuroscope
Boat trips , such as Fort Boyard
Play parks
Swimming in lakes, sea and pool
Bike rides - bike hire available
Fishing with kids
Family friendly beaches & swimming

Chatelaillon beach
Royan beach
Water parks
Fouras beach
La Rochelle beach
Ile d'Oleron
Ile de Ré
La Palmyre beach
Les Gours swimming lake

Great places to visit

La Rochelle for shopping & seafood restaurants
Cognac for distillery tours tastings
Saintes for its Roman ruins
St Jean d'Angely our historic local town
Rochefort - corderie Royal and Hermione sailing ship
Niort for shopping and restaurants
Angouleme historic town
Bordeaux to visit the top wine producers

  • Rural

Reviews

Ruche - La Grange du Moulin has received 2 reviews over the past 4 years with an average of:

10 stars
  • 10 stars

    Molyneux family review of La Grange du Moulin, August 2019, Ruche holiday cottage, children aged 7 and 5 yrs

    Wendy and Chris have created a special place here. They have thought of everything that a family might need. If you have forgotten it they will have it! The whole set up has been created with families in mind. Wendy is fabulous with the children and provides activities that entertain the children so the adults can relax with a glass of wine. The garden is safe and and enclosed so you don't need to worry about your children escaping!!! The area is rural but there is plenty to do, if you are stuck Wendy and Chris have plenty of ideas to help! As you are here with lots of other like-minded families you don't need to worry about your children making too much noise and it's very sociable for the adults too! We couldn't recommend it highly enough

    Comment from Wendy Blakeman EI

    This review was left in our guest book and the family gave us permission to publish it
    Deze recensie is in ons gastenboek achtergelaten en de familie heeft ons toestemming gegeven deze te publiceren
    Diese Bewertung wurde in unserem Gästebuch hinterlassen und die Familie gab uns die Erlaubnis, sie zu veröffentlichen
    Cette avis a été laissée dans notre livre d'or et la famille nous a donné la permission de la publier

  • 10 stars

    Kennedy family review of La Grange du Moulin,June 2019, Ruche holiday cottage,child age 3yrs

    Everything was great. From the child facilities to the pools for both children and adults. Loads to do from within an hours drive which is great with small children. Nice relaxed atmosphere. We will be back.

    Comment from Wendy Blakeman EI

    This review was left in our guest book and the family gave us permission to publish it
    Deze recensie is in ons gastenboek achtergelaten en de familie heeft ons toestemming gegeven deze te publiceren
    Diese Bewertung wurde in unserem Gästebuch hinterlassen und die Familie gab uns die Erlaubnis, sie zu veröffentlichen
    Cette avis a été laissée dans notre livre d'or et la famille nous a donné la permission de la publier

Restaurants, food & wine

there is a good selection of restaurants in our local town of Saint Jean d'Angely, however they all require a car to get to

Activities

We offer regular on site activities such as Fabric and pottery painting. We can also organise , vineyard walks, scuba diving sessions and yoga for all the family. We also host discovery evenings such as discover Pineau, discover sparkling wine etc with our very own resident wine expert.

  • Near riding
  • Fishing

Further remarks

As a child friendly property, our entire property is non smoking and non vaping. this means that you cannot smoke or vape inside the cottage or outside including on your own front or rear terrace, around the pool or in the communal play area. the only place you can smoke is in the parking area or by leaving the property.

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Additional price info and offers

Price includes

Bed linen

Price exclusive

  • Safety deposit € 150.00
  • Cleaning fee (optional) € 65.00
  • Price towels per person (optional) € 15.00

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How many guests?

Per week starting from

€400

Per week starting from

€400

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