As a group
A reunion, a long weekend, a birthday among a few: up to twelve guests in five rooms, the grounds to yourselves, breakfast by the pool. Not a big rental where everyone shares a kitchen. A guesthouse, all yours if you take all five rooms.
Villa Hautvallon hosts at most twelve guests, in five rooms booked separately, on about two and a half hectares (6 acres) in Gordes. The village is a ten-minute walk away. The outdoor pool measures 17 × 6 m (56 × 20 ft) and is heated. Check-in is in person, between 4 pm and 8 pm. Check-out is at 11 am. Booking.com shows a score of 9.8/10.
For a reunion, this size is the whole point. Big enough for everyone to have a room and a bathroom. Small enough for dinner to fit outdoors, at the pool house or in the garden, without turning into a function room, which we are not. We do not promise a party, a sound system or a set caterer. We prepare the nights, breakfast, and the meals the house can manage.
Who sleeps where
Four people, 95 m² (1,020 sq ft). An extra-large double bed and two twin beds. This is the room for a family within the group, or for two pairs of friends who want the terrace under the trees. Do not assign it at random: look at the room page first.
Two people, 35 m² (375 sq ft), two twin beds. The room for those who travel together without sharing a bed. The split-level layout separates the sleeping area from the sitting area. Useful when the group is not made up only of couples.
The Provençale (king-size bed, 35 m²), the Chambre Fleurs (55 m² / 590 sq ft, terrace), the Chambre Histoire Naturelle (50 m² / 540 sq ft). All open onto the grounds. Dogs, on request, are accepted only in the Provençale and the Histoire Naturelle — tell us beforehand, it is not automatic.
If there are only six or eight of you, two or three suites are enough, each booked separately. If you want the grounds without other guests, take all five together. How the whole house works is explained on the whole house, and the dates are on book.
By day, by night
Group life happens outdoors: the pool, the pool house, the chestnut trees. You get together because you decided to, not because the rooms open onto the same hotel corridor. In the morning, continental breakfast is served by the pool, included. No buffet at set hours.
There is no kitchen in the rooms. Do not plan on a “we’ll shop and cook” weekend. Lunches are offered, some dinners too, and evening barbecues. An outside private chef can be arranged on request — tell us when you book, with the number and the day, not at 6 pm the day before. On evenings without a table at the house, we book one in the village. Not every table in Gordes will take a group of twelve: that is exactly why you need to tell us early. For the evenings you split up, our three tables in Gordes — the bistro, the summer terrace, the grand table at La Bastide — are about ten minutes away on foot.
On Tuesdays, the market is a walk away, from 8 am to 1 pm. It is not a meal, it is the group’s morning. Other ideas for the day are on things to do in Gordes and, for forty-eight hours, on a weekend in Gordes.
No one cooks in their room, and no one has to keep everyone else’s schedule: one message with the names, the rooms and the arrival times is enough. We will not run a WhatsApp group for you. On arrival, one instruction for everyone: ring at the gate between 4 pm and 8 pm. There is no key box. If the cars are not arriving together, tell us: parking is on the grounds, free, and you are welcomed in person, not by a night desk. After 8 pm, let us know. The morning after the last night, check-out is at 11 am for every room, not room by room at different times. A group that wants one last coffee has it before leaving, by the pool, not on the road. Breakfast is the only shared schedule we set: it has no fixed time, but it has a place, by the water.
The occasion
A milestone, a reunion, twenty years since you were last all together in such numbers: the house prepares the stay, not an event. Champagne or flowers in a room, on request. A barbecue if the season and the day allow. A table in the village if fewer of you are around that evening. We do not run a function room, we do not host weddings, and we do not promise fireworks or a program.
For two, the anniversary has its own page, with the special touches and the gift vouchers: an anniversary in Gordes. A proposal is prepared separately, and quietly: a marriage proposal. Among friends, write to us with the number, the dates, and who sleeps where. Jean-François answers at villa.hautvallon@gmail.com, or on +33 4 90 72 92 54.
Up to twelve guests, in the five rooms. You can also book just two or three rooms if not everyone is coming: the rooms are sold separately. The whole house is booked as one on the Book page, when all five are free together.
No. The rooms have no kitchen for guests: this is not a rental house. Continental breakfast is included. Lunches, some dinners and evening barbecues are offered. An outside private chef can be arranged on request. On evenings without a table at the house, we book one in the village.
The Suite des Marronniers sleeps four (an extra-large double bed and two twin beds, 95 m² / 1,020 sq ft). The Chambre Duplex has two twin beds. The other three are suites for two: Provençale, Fleurs, Histoire Naturelle. Tell us who is sharing and we will put it together.
See the rooms one by one: the five rooms. Hold all five together: availability.
Villa Hautvallon
Up to twelve guests. Breakfast included. Tell us who takes which room when you write.
