Beautiful, Secluded Holiday Villa with Private Pool in Sablet, Vaucluse, France Reviews

The pictures and description on the web do not even come close to doing this house justice. It is a wonderful, spacious house in a very private setting in the middle of vineyards, off a tiny road just outside of Sablet. With a pool and multiple outdoor seating/dining areas (protected from the sun), it is perfect for outdoor living. The built-in and covered barbecue area will have you cooking and eating all your meals outside. There are two bedrooms upstairs and two bedrooms downstairs, with full bathrooms on both floors. There are large living rooms on both floors and there is plenty of room to spread out, although we spent almost all of our time outdoors. The kitchen is completely equipped with stove, oven, microwave/oven, 2 refrigerators, dishwasher, clothes washing machine, etc. There is WiFi but no TV. We were two couples, and the house was perfect for us, but it could easily accomodate 4 couples or two couples with children, as long as you didn't mind sharing bathrooms. There is no clothes dryer, but there is a clothesline out back and clothes dry very quickly in the sun. The property is very well maintained and the local English couple who look after it are extremely nice and helpful. Dealing with the (English) owners was a pleasure. Language is not a problem as everyone (pool guy, gardener, etc.) all seem to be English! There were lots of maps, brochures, etc. in the house for the area, there was a very detailed "instruction" book for the house that covered just about every topic, and the comfortably furnished upstairs living room has a very large selection of books.

The pretty town of Sablet is an easy walk away, and it has everything you need...2 boulangerie/patisseries, a small grocery store, a bank, a butcher, a pharmacie, a tourist office/wine store, several café/pizza places and a really excellent Michelin ranked restaurant. The towns of Gigondas, Séguret, Vacqueras, and Beaumes de Venise, with good food and wine are only a few kilometers away, and Vaison-la-Romaine, the nearest "big" town is only 11k away.

This is a perfect house to use as a base for hiking and biking...there are a number of marked hikes and bike rides that run right through Sablet... a perfect base for touring around the area, and a perfect base for doing nothing but sitting quietly by the pool and reading a book. The view of Sablet from the dining table under the arbor at sunset is quite spectacular. The house is hard to beat. I recommend it highly.