20' south of Fontainebleau, the Eden barn in its green setting

Impressive location and a delightful barn conversion.

Our stay at Christine and Janick's was absolute heaven; I honestly don't have the words to describe how much our family enjoyed our time at their home. Christine was a pleasure to work with before, during and after our stay. Check-in and check-out were easy. Christine greeted us and showed us around when we first arrived, ensuring we settled in comfortably. Their home is amazing, nestled in the French countryside, built and decorated with love and exactly as pictured. Our family had more than enough space to spread out and relax. We enjoyed the pool and outdoor space nightly. The kitchen, laundry and bathrooms were well equipped. I would stay with Christine and Janick again in a heartbeat and would move there if I could! As it is, we are taking with us beautiful memories and a wonderful new friendship.

We stayed with our two children for one week and had a wonderfully relaxed week. We were made very welcome, felt comfortable and enjoyed chatted to Christine and Janick. The pool was super! The house was well equipped and we enjoyed a complimentary cake on our arrival. We would return and highly recommend.

Perfect quiet location, nice big swimmingpool and good facilities. Definitely recommended

We expected a nice place to stay. What we actually found was a paradise! Paradise run by two angels of artistic and esthetic perfction and God's of hospitality. Seriously, our stay at his place was out of this world!

The house and the garden are really nice, the pool is the cherry on top. In the french discription it says: Nous partageons volontiers notre piscine ( ouverte de mai à septembre) avec les voyageurs dans la limite du raisonnable) Chacun dans le respect et la discrétion. We asked ourselves what this meant. One example: on our second last day it was 30 degrees celsius, but the owners did not open the pool, because they wanted to visit friends in the afternoon. (We asked in the morning.) So we had to go to a crowded lake for a swim, although we had a pool in front of the house. Moreover there was no W-Lan available during our stay, althoug the description says that W-Lan would be provided. We had a great stay as a family of five, comfortable beds, kitchen eqipped with all we needed, a Provence like garden, we did nice trips to Paris, Fontainebleau and Vaux le Vicompte but the access to the pool was more restrictive as imagined and we missed W-Lan access.

Christine and Janick were delightful hosts and we found the cottage to be charming and full of character. We visited during a heatwave making the pool a very welcome facility and although it is shared with the owners this was never a problem. They respect your privacy by not using the pool when you are and vice versa. The location is remote so you will need a car but is great for visiting various chateaus. Paris with so many sights to see is only 40 minutes by train from Moret Veneux les Sablons. The Palace of Versaille is about 1.5 hours by car and is spectacular. You need to allow a whole day if you are going to do both the Chateau and Gardens. Well worth the visit but be aware that the queue to get into the Chateau can be very long; 3.5 hours in our case and that was having booked tickets on line. If you don’t you can add another couple of hours to queue for those. You can avoid much of the queuing by buying a timed ticket. Chateau De Vaux-le-Vicomte is another beautiful chateau (we spent all day there) and on Saturday evenings the garden is candle-lit with a firework display. We didn’t stay for this but it seemed that a lot of people were arriving with picnics for the evening as we were leaving. I am not sure if this takes place every week so best check before you visit if that is your intention. Guedelon Castle approx. 1.5 hours’ drive is a 20 year archelogy project to build a castle using only traditional methods and provides a great day out. We spent a whole day there. Moret-sur-Loing is a very pretty village with a river where the locals like to swim. There is also a very nice restaurant that serves lovely crepes and galettes. Drive over the bridge and through the village high street until you get to the tourist information office on your right. The restaurant is about 20 meters further on the right. Fontainebleau (30 mins drive) has wide range of restaurants and cafes not far from the Chateau. We eat there every other night during our 2 week stay at a variety of restaurants. All were welcoming with good service and reasonable prices. All the meals we had were excellent so I can’t really recommend one over any other as they were all great. The Chateau is also well worth a visit. On the evenings when we did eat at the cottage I cooked on the barbeque. It was a basic barbeque fuelled by charcoal but I found it fine to use and cooked for four each time. All in all, we had a great time and would be happy to recommend this accommodation.