Luxury Holiday Villa rental with Private Pool - Near Montelimar, Rhone-Alpes Reviews

“Authentically French”


This is a beautiful house with a very French feel about it, located about 15-20 minutes walk from the centre of Montelimar. The house is well decorated, has an excellent kitchen and comfortable rooms, with air conditioning to ensure comfortable nights. It has a very personal feel of staying in someone's second home, with books, DVDs, lots of personal items and the use of a car and bikes. The owner is very generous and extremely helpful. The house is located conveniently near a supermarket and excellent row of shops - fish, meat, wonderful veg shop and a baker's just slightly further on, but well worth the walk. Montelimar is very untouristy, but with a good selection of restaurants (we particularly enjoyed the moderately priced, excellent food at La Papillote) shops for all budgets and cafes for chatty afternoons drinking coffee or beer and eating ice-cream. We travelled from Dorset, UK on three fast trains, departing at 9am and arriving in Montelimar at about 8.30pm. The train service was excellent and we also went by train to Arles (great amphitheatre, location of many famous Van Gogh paintings and an excellent Ancient History museum), Avignon (walk past the main square packed with restaurants and eat outside the Pope's Palace - much nicer) and Orange (the Roman theatre is definitely worth a visit - use the audio guide). We also hired cars for two days to visit the Pont du Gard (magnificent - take swimming kit and swim in the river) and to go Kayaking down the River Rhone (absolutely fabulous, but go with a sense of humour - you will probably be squirted with water by enthusiastic holidaying kids at some point) No house is perfect and I would say the minor downsides of this one were that the road was a very busy one (although you are behind high gates) and the swimming pool is unheated and in shade for much of the day, which made it a fantastic plunge pool and very pleasant to sit beside, but only our youngest (age 11) really enjoyed actually swimming in it! I would definitely recommend this house, town and region to other people.