The Top 15 Hotels Near Auberge des Templiers
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Rooms and suites at this refined small hotel in Burgundy look out over the river Yonne and forested hills, many with private patios for sitting with the landscape. The Lorain family has run it for generations, and the residential warmth shows: you feel like a houseguest with better linens. A two-level spa, hammam, and heated pool handle the recovery between vineyard visits and long dinners downstairs.
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Eight rooms perched above Sancerre's famous vineyards, with views that make it clear why this particular slope has been argued over for centuries. It's a small, quietly elegant rural hotel with a spa, bikes on offer, and a restaurant that cooks to the season and leans hard into the local terroir. The wine list, unsurprisingly, skews local, and the team can arrange tastings with nearby producers for guests who want to go deeper into the obsession.
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The rooftop bar looks straight at Sens Cathedral, which sets the tone for a hotel that has placed itself, very deliberately, in the middle of everything worth seeing in town. Suites face the neo-renaissance town hall or the rooftops, the restaurant leans into Burgundy produce and wine, and there's a playroom, a small fitness room, and in-room treatments when you'd rather skip a spa. A Michelin Selected Hotel.
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A vine-covered château outside that looks exactly how a Burgundy country house should, and inside a rotating gallery of bespoke Dutch design and contemporary art that somehow never feels like a museum. This ten-room hotel earns a Michelin Key with spaces built to sprawl in, a pool designed for doing nothing, a spa, and a locavore restaurant whose menu shifts with whatever the region is offering.
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A stone building on the banks of the Loire that was once an aristocratic residence, now a boutique hotel where the original architecture shares the room with genuinely contemporary design. Rooms look out over the rooftops or the Georges V bridge, and one comes with a private terrace. The spa runs on Omnisens products. No restaurant, but the quai puts you steps from both the cathedral and enough dining options to fill a long weekend.
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A neoclassical facade from the 16th century gives way to rooms dressed in jewel tones, bold murals, and patterns you'd never expect from something this old, which is rather the point. The 46 rooms and 10 suites at this MGallery hotel sit right on the square facing the Fontainebleau palace, and lean into contemporary luxury rather than period-room reverence. A cocktail bar and an on-site restaurant keep things convenient.
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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.