The Best Hotels Near Au 14 Février, by the Record
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A former abbey tucked beside the Prés Fichaux Garden, this hotel trades on centuries of stonework outside and entirely contemporary rooms within. The bar, Le 62, leans into whiskey, wine, and Champagne, and the bistro handles dinner without fuss. The old town center is a short walk south, the rail station just across the river. It carries the Michelin Guide selection and, by local standards, the address to match.
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A 19th-century mansion on the quiet north side of Bourges, close to the station, with an original oak staircase and stained glass that the twenty rooms and single suite quietly ignore in favor of contemporary furnishings and modern comforts. It's a small, calm hotel that reads more like a private house than a hospitality operation. The old city and the UNESCO-listed cathedral are an easy walk, and the bar serves drinks and a light menu all day.
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Half-timbered walls and seven guest rooms in the heart of the Sologne, where the forest and Loire châteaux form the scenery and nobody is in much of a hurry. This old coaching inn runs small on purpose: floral wallpapers, dark vintage wood, rustic beams in the dining room, and a garden terrace that earns its keep in summer. The kitchen leans into local Sologne produce and Loire wines, which is exactly what you'd want here.
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An 18th-century château a few minutes outside Bourges, with original woodwork still in the rooms, a swimming pool in the gardens, and a dining room under old timber beams serving food sourced nearby. Rooms split between those with period details intact and those where antique-style furnishings dress up newer construction, which is a distinction worth noting when you book. The Berry countryside is very quiet, and that's rather the point.
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A Caudalie spa, a pool, bikes waiting by the door, and a wine bar that makes it genuinely hard to leave, all inside a Loire Valley château converted into a small, quietly luxurious hotel. The rooms mix antique bones with contemporary furniture without making a fuss about it. Forests and vineyards surround the estate, so the countryside is right there whenever you need an excuse to skip the spa. Michelin gives it two Keys.
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The hand-painted murals and grand fireplaces in this 17th-century Loire Valley château are original, and the current owners had the sense not to touch them. It's a country estate hotel where no two rooms look alike, some paneled in dark wood, others in florals, all with serious bathrooms and antique furniture that doesn't feel like a museum. A spa, two pools, and tennis courts designed by Guy Forget round out the property without turning it into a resort cartoon.
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A 19th-century château turned boutique hotel on a 180-hectare estate in the Loire Valley, where 19 individually designed rooms split between the castle itself and a traditional Solognote farmhouse. The bar runs from morning coffee to evening cocktails, and on Monday and Tuesday nights guests eat together around a communal table. Bikes, forest laser games, and astronomy nights are all folded into the room rate, which sets the tone nicely.
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A coaching inn from the 18th century, now a quietly charming boutique hotel spread across several old village houses in Chenonceaux, a few minutes' walk from the Loire's most photographed chateau. Rooms mix antique furniture with modern comfort, there's a heated pool and a small wellness area, and the kitchen draws from an on-site kitchen garden. The kind of place where a glass of wine before dinner feels like a reasonable life philosophy.