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Farmhouse |5 bedrooms |Sleeps 12

Meze in Languedoc-Roussillon

From £750 per week

7 nights minimum stay

Changeover Saturday

4 out of 5

8 reviews | Write a review

Key info  Swimming pool, beach or lakeside relaxation, balcony/terrace, car essential, private garden, no pets allowed

About the home

Situated in three hectares with lawn, established trees and surrounded by a pine forest and grapevines, this luxurious country hideaway would suit one or more families. There's plenty of space inside and out.

The Mas accommodates a maximum of 9 adults, plus 3 children.

The five spacious bedrooms, three bathrooms and free flowing, light and airy living areas are beautifully finished and furnished. The extremely well equipped kitchen opens to a large terrace for al fresco dining.

Looking out to the countryside, the private pool is for guests' exclusive use and has a large, paved surround for sunbathing.

A villa in the grounds to sleep four is also available to rent, this would accommodate a total of 17 guests between the two properties. Please refer ad ref 72291 (the Villa may also be let independently of the Mas).

NB: When the Mas only is let, the pool and grounds are for the exclusive use of guests at the Mas only.

It's just a 10 minute drive to the lovely little port of Mèze, which has a sandy beach lined with seafood restaurants

There’s a choice of walks directly from the house, particularly along the Roman Road in both directions, which offers lovely unspoilt walking amongst wild flowers; it’s also great for bird spotting.

There is a lively market town nearby for supermarkets, restaurants, shops and one of the best weekly street markets in the area. Lots of historical sites in the area and easy day trips can be made to Carcassonne and the Cathar castles, Nimes, Arles, Avignon.

INTERNET ACCESS:
Internet is available for 15 euros a week, which should be paid for on arrival. This will include 250 Mo which is the equivalent to 16 hours of surf time. Extra time can be purchased via the owner.

Facilities

Further details indoors:
Entrance to the house is via a big, sunny terrace of 50 sq m into a hallway with guest powder room. The bright and airy open plan living and dining areas have a high, vaulted ceiling with amazing huge beams. Windows all round give vistas over the green countryside.

Three comfy three-seater leather sofas form a spacious sitting area around a big fireplace with glass insert. French doors open to the front terrace.

A counter worktop separates the kitchen which is extremely well equipped, including a dishwasher, microwave, gas hob, oven, kettle, toaster, hot drinks machine. Off the kitchen is a large covered terrace of 50 sq m with pitched roof and big beams and a teak dining setting - ideal for al fresco dining on hot days. From the terrace a lawn with mature olive and pine trees meanders down to the pool.

A half flight of steps goes up to a twin bedded room and bedroom with king size bed, both with big windows looking over the view. An anteroom houses two hand washbasins opposite a stylish, fully tiled shower room with shower, WC and hand washbasin. A further bathroom on this level has bath, hand held shower, WC, hand washbasin.

A landing with a single sofa bed has a spiral staircase which leads up to a big loft room with enormous beams and three single beds, an ideal sleeping and playing space for children. NB: the ceiling height makes this room suitable for children only.

On the ground floor is the huge master bedroom suite with a double bed, sitting area with TV and French doors opening to a lovely covered terrace and stone-walled courtyard, private to the suite.

The beautifully tiled shower room with shower, WC, hand washbasin and utilities room with washing machine, laundry tub, iron, ironing board are accessed via a short corridor.

A twin bedded room has French doors to the garden and pool and a door opening to a flight of steps going back up to the entrance hall.

All bedrooms have fans. Cot and highchair available.

The Mas accommodates a maximum of 9 adults, plus 3 children.

A villa in the grounds to sleep four is also available to rent, which would accommodate a total of 17 guests between the two properties. Please refer ad ref 72291. NB: the Villa may also be let independently of the Mas.

INTERNET ACCESS:
Internet is available for 15 euros a week, which should be paid for on arrival. This will include 250 Mo which is the equivalent to 16 hours of surf time. Extra time can be purchased via the owner.

Further details outdoors:
The area around the house is landscaped with lawn and garden, leading on to open countryside with a pine forest and grapevines.

The private swimming pool, 10 x 5, 1. 75M and 1M at the shallow end, has steps leading into it and a wide, paved surround with sun loungers and views out to the open countryside. The pool has an electric cover to be used for security and a cabana with shower and WC.

BBQ, table tennis table and pétanque area (boules court) for your enjoyment.

Plenty of parking space.

The pool and grounds are for the exclusive use of guests at the Mas only.

Further details

** Cooking, shopping, cleaning, and a personal laundry service can be arranged during your visit, please enquire for details. **

** Please note that part of the approach to the house is along an unmade road.

** The Villa in the grounds may also be let independently of the Mas

** The Mas accommodates a maximum of 9 adults, plus 3 children

Conditions

Bed linen and bath towels are supplied. Please bring pool towels.

Bookings run Saturday-Saturday in high season, for minimum periods of one week. During certain parts of other seasons we can be more flexible, please enquire.

A security deposit of £400 applies.

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From the rear terrace towards the pool

 

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Pool

 

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A twin bedded room

 

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Part of the facade

The Languedoc-Roussillon / Herault region

This region, the Languedoc, is France's best kept secret. With its sleepy villages of sun-warmed stones and red tiled roofs, surrounded by magnificent scenery and herb scented hills, it is ideal walking country. It is France’s largest, up-and-coming wine producing region and there are many opportunities to taste its excellent wines.

If you can tear yourself away from such over-abundance of nature's generosity, there are many local places of interest nearby. Or an hour's drive takes you to splendid Roman towns such as Avignon, Nîmes, Arles to the east, stunning Carcassonne and the Cathar castles to the west.

The sandy beach at Meze is only a 10 minute drive. Mediterranean beaches are 20 minutes’ drive and Lac Salagou for fishing and non-motorised water sports, 20 minutes. For a touch of true French sophistication, Montpellier, 40 kms, offers the arts, theatre, shopping, an international airport and train station. The Spanish border is only 1.5 hours' drive.

The Meze area

The sandy beach at Meze is ringed with a wide choice of restaurants which specialise in local seafood.

There are restaurants and supermarkets at Pézenas, 5 kms, which is famous for its antique dealers and big Saturday street market, also a public swimming pool.

Brilliant local markets, concerts and festivals year round include truffle and wine fairs. Private wine domaines hold classical concerts in lovely surroundings during the summer - under the stars in a fabulous chateau courtyard or in an atmospheric wine store - followed by wine tastings

How to get there

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Montpellier, 45 minutes' drive, is the closest airport (Ryanair and Easyjet).

Nimes, Carcassonne, Perpignan and Rodez airports less than an hour's drive (Ryanair)

Toulouse and Marseille two hours, an easy trip on the autoroute (British Airways)

Beziers airport 40 mins (Ryanair)

TGV to Montpellier from Paris takes 3.5 hours

Activities near Meze

Reviews

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14 Oct 2011

“A little bit of French heaven” Having stayed at Mas Belle for the past three years (and have already booked up for next year!) I thought an honest review was needed. We have always found Ruth, the owner, very welcoming,... more

12 Oct 2011

“Fabulous place--would recommend to anyone” We stayed at Mas Belle for 3 weeks in May/June. Over the past few years we have rented a number of properties in France, italy and Spain and Mas Belle is right at the top of our favorite places. The... more

02 Oct 2011

“a wonderful family holiday” This is an excellent venue for a family holiday. The house is very well equiped and spacious and the area around the pool is beautiful and very family friendly. The house is surrounded by fields of... more

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30 Sep 2011

“Fabulous family vacation getaway home !!” We had a fantastic August week at your vacation home with all of our family! There were 8 adults and 2 small children with lots of room for everyone. We ate out on the covered patio and BBQ'd every day which was fantastic, (which also helped with the cleaning up inside)! Kitchen was stocked with lots of cooking utensils and crockery and the dish washer was used to the maximum. We visited the beach and shopping was a short ride to town. I would recommend this property to everyone if you want a "getaway vacation" !!

30 Sep 2011

“Had a wonderful time with my family in this get away haven” We had trouble finding the place, but after that, was a great experience. We had fun, lovely place. The rooms were nice, but in a strange layout. One of the rooms was a path to the back ones. But other than that was nice and breazy! Loved the pool and the outdoor eating area!

28 Sep 2011

“One of the best places we has stayed at” I stayed at Mas Belle in June this year along with my husband, son, daughter and her boyfriend. I have stayed several times in France and can honestly say this was one of the best places we've stayed at. It was clean and very comfortable. I like the fact that although there was a small villa nearby we had sole use of the pool which meant a lot to us as the place we had stayed at previously had a limit to when we could use the pool which didn't enhance our holiday in any way. We found the owner very amenable although we didn't have a lot of contact mainly because we didn't need to as everything we needed was at the villa. We have already decided if we go to France next year then we would certainly try to stay at Mas Belle again. I have already mentioned it to my sister and we are thinking of going as a larger group although it would probably be the year after next.

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28 Sep 2011

“Fabulous!!!!!” We were 2 extended families staying at Mas Belle July 2010. House amazing. Grounds exceptional. fairly hidden away which was great for us. Boules pitch for the boys, spacious pool area for the girls.... more

11 Sep 2011

“Left Dissapointed” I would like to point out that due to the way we were treated (I will explain later) I have given more time to the negatives of this property! But in saying that I would like to think this is an honest review. Good points first: Large spacious house, great pool and outside sitting area - this is where we spent most of our time. Area is lovely and the port of Meze is a great little place with small man made beach - all very clean. The house: Only 2 of the five bedrooms are actually proper bedrooms; the upstairs double was a good sized spacious airy room and the other was the twin downstairs room at the rear of the property. The other rooms are a bit of thoroughfare; the downstairs double has a staircase leading up to the upstairs bedrooms and has no door so it is not very private. "A half flight of steps goes up to a twin bedded room" - this is not really a bedroom as it is a main route through the house that is used by all who stay in the upper rooms, there is a curtain which is used to create privacy wall - but not very good - this room (or large corridor) is very noisy! "big loft room with enormous beams" All I can say is this is a small & very hot room, the kids were cooked at night! I is also an open room with no doors, very noisy. Bathrooms were all really spacious and modern, unfortunately the large luxurious shower cubicles were spoiled by the mere dribble of water that came out of the showers! Shame really, considering the amount that appears to be spent on the high pressure auto sprinkler system in the garden! The treatment! Firstly we were aware that we did not clean before we left, but were prepared to pay that out of the security deposit (£50), however we did have to clean some of the kitchen cupboards on arrival as they were dirty - the cooker hood was filthy and did not work. We were also charged £150 for unblocking the septic tank - there are post-it notes stating that no wipes to be flushed down the toilets - we discovered on return that one of the young kids had flushed wipes down - fair enough. However, we were also accused of hitting an outside wall hard with one of our cars, luckily we all had hired cars and had to send in our receipts to prove none of them were damaged! We were also charged £130 for a new mattress as one of the kids had apparently wet the bed - none of our kids have had this problem before, the stain was strangely on the mattress but not the sheets! Tip - when you arrive strip the beds and check the mattresses. we were finally charged for £20 for ink drawing on the kids bedroom floor - apart from the kids having no pens in the room, we put the spare mattress in that room so all the kids could sleep together - there was no visible floor space for them to draw on. So we feel we were ripped off, we were honest and admitted the parts were were liable for, but felt they tried to charge us for damage that had been caused previous to our visit. We were never shown receipts for the extras we had to pay for! Response: Dear Guests We are greatly saddened by your review of Mas Belle and can only apologize if you feel you were unfairly treated. We pride ourselves on the friendly personal service & cleanliness that the owner normally provides for her guests during their stay. This is the first time in the 3 years that there has been any dispute with any clients and never before has money from the security deposit been withheld. The septic tank was unblocked personally by the owner, an extremely unpleasant task, thus saving about 150 Euros on the price of a professional company being called out. Other damage was done but no charge was made. It is a shame that the review gives the impression that the bedrooms are inadequate. The 5 main bedrooms are all between 25m2 and 40m2, all have fans to keep cool. All rooms also have mosquito nets on the windows so they can also be left open during the night. The Mas is set in a rural position so the only noise is the sound of the cicadas. We believe that the true representation of Mas Belle is shown by the lovely, heartwarming comments that are left in the visitors' book at the Mas and sent privately through email to us, and repeat clients who return year after year.

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Rental prices

Prices for group size 12
Period	From	To	Weekly	Nightly rate		Minimum  stay
				Weekday	Weekend
	21 May 11	2 Jul 11	1150£ 1150	0-	0-	1 Week
	2 Jul 11	27 Aug 11	1950£ 1950	0-	0-	1 Week
	27 Aug 11	17 Sep 11	1150£ 1150	0-	0-	1 Week
	17 Sep 11	24 Dec 11	750£ 750	0-	0-	1 Week
	24 Dec 11	7 Jan 12	1150£ 1150	0-	0-	1 Week
	7 Jan 12	19 May 12	750£ 750	0-	0-	1 Week
	19 May 12	7 Jul 12	1150£ 1150	0-	0-	1 Week
	7 Jul 12	1 Sep 12	1950£ 1950	0-	0-	1 Week
	1 Sep 12	15 Sep 12	1150£ 1150	0-	0-	1 Week
	15 Sep 12	22 Dec 12	750£ 750	0-	0-	1 Week

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

A villa to sleep four can also be rented to accommodate a total of 16 guests. Please refer to ad ref 72291.

Security deposit of £400 applies.

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