Hotel La Vieille Bastide - Flayosc

Nice and quiet hotel,just what we were looking for.Breakfast was a bit expensive at 10 Euros per person per day for a basket of croissant,pan de chocolate and sometimes not very fresh coffee. Very well decorated lounge and just my type of music in the background (classical)to relax in the evening with a coffee and a Tia Maria and catch up on the events and activities done through out the day. This is an ideal Hotel for people that want to get away from the usual busy cities and from the hustle of walking round busy streets. We hired a car from Marseille airport and we used our own Tom Tom, be pacient with the satnav sometimes the signal goes and some country roads have been mmodified as roundabout instead of a crossing. Frogs come out at about 10pm to make some noise, I believe they have a noise competition as it gets louder by the minute, they stop at about mid night and they go to sleep. You get used to them on the second day.

The room was extremely cold on arival, heating should have been switched on in advance. The central heating controls were not easy to operate. Breakfast was basic (even by continental breakfast standards) and expensive (10 Euro). The proprietor was very friendly and helpful but the manageress was very cold and distant.