Adrian - United Kingdom

I stayed at the beautiful La Banne with my daughter and we had a fantastic and varied few days. A quiet, private, comfortable, well appointed and spacious room which was immaculately clean. A delicious high quality breakfast served al fresco on a private patio with views in all directions led to a calm and relaxed start to the day. The salt water pool with views in every direction allowed us to soak up the sunshine and relax with our books. The pool is wonderful to swim in and the exclusive use of it at perfect times of the day is a really huge bonus to this property. We did the short (20 minute) walk up into the beautiful Bastide village of Belves on both evenings - firstly for the local gourmand evening which was buzzing - fantastic local food and lots of friendly chatter and then the next night to go to an open air Shakespeare production (in English) which was a high quality production and excellent fun. It was another massive bonus having such an attractive town with such high quality entertainment just a short walk away. The walk whilst hilly is very pretty, safe and easy. We also had a long canoe on the Dordogne. All of these recommendations came from our hosts when they invited us to join them for a glass of wine. Neil & David struck the perfect balance as ideal hosts, thoroughly helpful through the booking process, very welcoming and generous and yet otherwise respectful and unobtrusive.