Airelles Gordes, La Bastide

Amazing stay! Booked based on Travel & Leisure reco and wasn’t let down (again). The staff was amazing. The property is stunning and the views are incredibly beautiful. Would definitely return. Elio in the concierge was super helpful and very friendly. I appreciate all his help before and during our stay. 10/10

This hotel is one of the most outstanding French regional hotels I have stayed in. The room was large with a very comfortable bed, and spacey bathroom. A huge collection of gifts, edible and otherwise, was supplied for you to take home. The buffet breakfast displayed a huge choice of interesting food. Definitely a must have experience in a charming hillside town. zSteaff were always very helpful.

We booked Airelles La Bastide for a weekend summer break as it’s a fairly short drive from home. Although we had a good stay I’m not sure we’ll be back, especially not in summer. There is not enough beds at the pool and guests seem to reserve them from early in the morning by placing personal items on the beds - some which sit there for hours and hours until the guests decide to go down and actually use them. So books and sunscreen had a better holiday than we did most of the time! So bear this in mind if you go, because we didn’t know and so were without beds for our first day! The staff servicing the pool area don’t seem in control of this at all - fellow guests saw beds lay empty all day, but because there was a personal item on the bed, the pool guys won’t let anyone use it. The restaurants/food and breakfast was great, but service during breakfast is very slow. Be sure to sit on the terrace closest to the breakfast buffet, because they will forget you completely if seated on the left hand side terrace. Our room was nice, close to the pool, but the walls were awfully thin. We were neighboured with a suite and so heard children crying non stop - as if they were in our room. The same happened when a family with a dog checked in and left the dog in the room alone from early morning. It was screaming and distressed which was awful to hear. Management moved us to another room for the night which was a relief. All in all, good but not great and probably won’t be back.

I have been lucky to stay at incredible properties around the world and Airelle Gordes, La Bastide now ranks at the very top of my list. The only negative I can think of is that we had to leave. Thank you to the entire hotel team for a perfect stay. We cannot wait to return.

The small but extremely fine luxury hotel chain Arielles runs one of the most beautiful hotels in the world, the Bastide de Gordes, in perhaps the most beautiful village in France, the famous Gordes. Of course, everything you get here has its price. This hotel and its restaurants are for people full of joie de vivre and enjoyment. But this group of people will be very, very happy here. The location is unique, the furnishings are enchanting, the staff are exceptionally polite, friendly and kind. Here the guest lacks for nothing, and anyone who knew the Oriental in Bangkok in the days of Kurt Wachtveitl or the Vier Jahreszeiten in Hamburg under Gert Prantner, for many years the best hotels in the world, can only come to the same conclusion: The Bastide de Gordes has nothing to hide behind these famous icons. We always enjoy the L'Orangerie restaurant in particular, whether for breakfast, lunch during the week or Sunday brunch deluxe. This hotel is our living room in Provence and we can only say that we are grateful and happy that the Bastide exists