Le Mans holiday manor house to let with walking, log fire, rural retreat, TV, DVD

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Le Petit Bois (manor house)

Home description

This beautiful manoir provides a relaxing rural retreat, the garden, courtyard and grounds provide ample space to enjoy, eat alfresco, play outdoor games or just sit and relax. The house has three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a beautiful large lounge with open fire , and plenty of room to relax.

Whether its a family get away or a break with friends here at Le Petit Bois you can enjoy living the French life, shopping at the villages' Sunday market, or eating out at the local gourmand restaurants, and for the active life the nearby forests and lakes provide opportunities to walk, bike, fish, sail or generally just get away.

The back of the house	Bedroom 1
Bedroom 2	The Lounge

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The Loire Valley / Sarthe region

20 minutes from the bustling medieval city of Le Mans, famous for the 24 hour motor race. One hour north of the Loire rivers' vineyards and chateaux. Forest and lakes nearby, such as the local Forest of Charnie and the magnificent Alpes Mancelles - ideal for walking, cycling, fishing, sailing, swimming.

Le Mans area

Perfect base to visit the area, including the towns of Le Mans, with its magnificent cathedral, medieval city and fantastic shops, Alencon, Laval with its hilltop fortress, the lake at Sille Le Guillaume with its beach and sailing facilities, the medieval village of Saint Suzanne, picturesque St Cenerie, Fresnay Sur Sarthe, or Solesmes Abbey, with its Gregorian chants and hymns.

Saint Symphorien is a small friendly village of approximately 500 inhabitants located 20 minutes from Le Mans, with a bar / tabac, boulangerie, butchers with epicerie, hotel with an award winning restaurant, tennis court, boules ground and a Sunday market, selling fuit & veg, cheese, meat, fish, flowers, clothes.

There is a good public open air swimming pool in Tennie, a neighbouring village, which is just 6km from the house.

If you're looking for crowds and British people, you'll be hard pushed to find them here!

How to get there

By car, the Normandy ports of Caen and Le Havre are only app 2.5 hours away, a little further from Calais and Boulogne at app 4.5 hours but access is easy via the autoroutes direct to Le Mans. From the confluence of the A28 / A11 serving Paris, Alencon, Nantes , Tours, Rennes the house is 18 minutes.

By air there are direct flights in to Tours (1.5 hours) , Nantes and Dinard, or a comfortabe option is to fly to Paris and connect to the direct TGV service Montparnasse to Le Mans (55 minutes)

By train, using Rail europe you can travel from any point in the UK, via Eurostar to Paris and TGV to Le Mans.

Activities near Le Mans

Facilities

Further details indoors:
The house has a large lounge with huge oak beams, a central fireplace which can be lit when required The bedrooms are large and spacious with views to the rolling countryside beyond. The bathrooms are new and all bedrooms finished to a high standard,

Further details outdoors:
Access to the front is via electronic gates into a courtyard surrounded by barns which provide secure and ample parking. The garden to the rear also fully secured allows children or animals to roam in freedom. To the side of the house is a large field that can be used for flying kites or generally running around in. The garden has an orchard and potager (kitchen garden) and guest are welcome to harvest fruits and vegetables for their own use.
In the garden is a summer house for shaded dining, guests can use the barbecue and hammock, play boules and croquet, or just sit and watch the sun settle into evening.
Games, books and a selection of movies are available.

Further details

Pets allowed by arrangement
Rentals min 3 nights no maximum

Conditions

Strictly no smoking
Refundable breakages deposit of £300 required in advance, to be refunded within two weeks of your departure (subject to satisfactory property inspection).

Rental rates

Period	From	To	Weekly	Nightly rate		Minimum  stay
				Weekday	Weekend
Summer 09	2 Sep 09	6 Sep 09	750£ 750	125125	125125	3 Nights
Autumn / Winter rate	16 Sep 09	20 Dec 09	600£ 600	0-	0-	1 Week
Xmas / New Year	20 Dec 09	4 Jan 10	750£ 750	0-	0-	1 Week
Winter / Spring	4 Jan 10	27 Mar 10	600£ 600	0-	0-	1 Week
Spring / Summer 2010	27 Mar 10	4 Sep 10	775£ 775	0-	0-	1 Week

The property's weekend rates apply to: Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights

NB: Prices may be subject to change at the advertiser's discretion.

Prices are for the property per week in UK Pounds.

£300 refundable deposit required at time of booking.

Payment in full required 28 days from rental period.

10% discount for second week. Discounts for long term rentals. Please ask for details.

Rental rates include cleaning fee.

There is a winter fuel supplement from November 1st to March 1st of £50 per week. (Oil and logs)

Guestbook for Le Petit Bois

We arrived safe and sound and have now settled into your wonderful property. It is so comfortable, and the location is perfect. What a lucky find for us!

I cooked a chicken casserole tonight which included a few fabulous courgettes from the garden plus some of your onions, potatoes and tomatoes (the latter are really juicy and aromatic). I have a favourite spot in the house - that lovely bench in the garden opposite all the wild flowers - and sat there this morning eating a peach from your tree and thinking Deep Thoughts about the world. Can't get much better than that!

Thank you for allowing us into your lovely house. We have rented houses for our summer holidays over many years, and yours is one of the best!

There are, in our experience, two types of holiday home owners. Those who strip away any trace of human habitation and leave you with an antiseptic shell and those who say 'this is our house,please look after it'. You know which category you are in. It makes the whole experience so much more friendly and welcoming. Thank you for a great holiday!

We were very sorry to leave, and I am trying hard not to look at the weather in Le Mans. Thanks again for a wonderful stay.

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Name:	Rachel Nickless
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