DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES

Guests at Les Vignes Bed and Breakfast have often remarked that it really should not be called a B&B. The title B&B, they say, summons images of small, minimally equipped rooms and sometimes shared bathrooms. Ordinary B&Bs do not offer the luxury of Les Vignes manor, where each guest room is 25 square meters, with an equally large adjoining bathroom. In addition, the comfortable rooms are elegantly furnished, decorated, and equipped with an entertainment center including colour television with some English satellite channels and VCR with access to our VCR library.

Guests are welcome to relax in our living room with its fireplace, colour television and full satellite channels, VCR/DVD center, jigsaw puzzle, board games, and magazines. Energetic guests can explore the neighboring Normandy countryside walking or riding our new bicycles. Lazier guests can lounge in the sun on chaises longues. The literary can read a book in the shade of the chestnut tree alley. The restless can find peace strolling around the grounds, watching the waterbirds flying along the canal which runs from the Risle River to Les Vignes, the trout swimming in the moat which surrounds the stately turn-of-the-century manor, the grapes ripening in our Victorian greenhouses, the horses grazing in neighboring pastures.

Breakfasts also are extra-ordinary at Les Vignes, where guests enjoy orange juice, coffee, tea, or hot chocolate, fresh fruit, yogurt, granola, and a daily homemade specialty or two such as blueberry muffins, pancakes, banana bread, or breakfast souffle.

An added advantage not offered by ordinary B&Bs: our guests can choose to eat their evening meal at Les Vignes, to relax and unwind by candlelight after a day of sightseeing at nearby Honfleur, Deauville, Rouen, or Giverny. Leslie creates a 4-course gourmet meal with the guests' food preferences or allergies in mind, using vegetables and herbs from the garden and, of course, the four Normandy cheeses. The price of the evening meal includes house wine with the meal, and clients can take advantage of our full bar service for an aperitif before or a digestif after dinner.

Obviously, Les Vignes is not an ordinary B&B. We don't know what we should call it. With only two guests rooms, it isn't an hotel. With its elegant manor and beautiful grounds, it isn't a rustic auberge. Some guests have suggested "luxury guest house", others "exclusive retreat". Why not spend a few days with us and let us know what you think we should call Les Vignes, our special home in the heart of Normandy.

E.mail: leslie@normandy-bnb.com

Tel: 00 33 2 32 45 06 67