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My husband and I and my brother and his wife enjoyed our stay in this beautiful apartment in June. The apartment is very well equipped and has excellent air conditioning which we were very grateful for with the latest high temperatures. Kris was very helpful when we arrived giving us all the information needed to enjoy our stay. We loved the daily market just a block away. We also so visited Lourmarin on the local bus and Marseille another day. We left with very many happy memories of Aix and Kris and Thierry's lovely apartment.

Perfect location to enjoy the region. Apartment had everything we needed. Kristen and Thierry had made sure it was like staying in your own home. Amazing small restaurants that were all in walking distance.

Every need provided for in elegant comfortable French style, close to delightful neighborhood stores, cafes and markets, and 15 minute walk to Cours Mirabeau. Great welcome book with suggestions for your stay. Lovely coffee table books in English, plus a bookshelf of English books. One of my best stays in France.

We stayed for about two weeks mid-November to visit our daughter who was studying in Aix and the apartment was perfect! PROS: - Excellent location to everything in the Centre Ville: daily street markets, a Monop', cafes, restaurants, patisseries, boulangeries... - Safe location and secure building - Quiet, warm and perfectly appointed apartment - Parking available at a nearby garage (for a nominal fee) AND super easy exit from the garage to the Aix périphérique for trips to nearby towns and Marseille - AMAZING hosts! Kristine and Thierry are pros - they were available when we had questions and checked in with us several times during our stay to make sure things were ok and offered great recommendations. CON: You'll have go home at some point.... Some places we liked near the apartment: Tonkin Food (200 ft away, great Vietnamese take-out), Le Countrepoint for burgers, Licandro Le Bistro, Maison Weibel for "correct" pastries, FarinomanFou for bread, Fromagerie Savelli for cheese and Brûlerie Richelme for coffee. Nearby towns to visit: Cassis and its calanques, Marseille and nearby calanques, Rousillion, Gordes, L'ile sur la Sourge (Sunday market), Avignon, Ménerbes, Lourmarin (Friday market), Moustiers-Saint-Marie and nearby lake, Sisteron, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Eygalières...so many more... Merci beaucoup Kristine et Thierry, j'espère que nos chemins se croisent encore. xo

From the initial written contact, to being helped with our luggage on arrival and departure, and our welcoming plate of Aix specialities and Provencal rose, our hosts kristine and Thierry could not have been more helpful or charming. They even checked to see if we were ok when a neighbor mentioned he hadn’t heard any noise from the apartment. The apartment was beautifully decorated by Kristine who has a professional eye for art and antiques and has created a gorgeous “shabby chic” environment. It was well stocked with everything we could need for our ten day stay, though we ate out often, checking out Kristine’s recommendations for restaurants and cafes. Location could not be better, It is ideally located near the edge of the historic centre and in short walking distance of restaurants, bars, galleries, fabulous shops and the famous Cours Mirabeau. We had a caterer and boulangerie beneath us, and several restaurants on the same street. On Kristine’s suggestion we ate breakfast out a couple of times, so we could people watch at a morning market. Also, on her suggestion, we visited the 18th century Caumont Museum for a fabulous lunch and an exhibition of art by Nicolas de Stael. On a visit to the Cathedral we were lucky enough to be able to hear the wonderful organ being played during a wedding ceremony. We were also close enough to the Post Office to be able to carry our rather large parcels of purchased goodies, some from the Cours Mirabeau market, to be mailed back home. From the Tourism Bureau on Cours Mirabeau we were able to book a trip to the Camargue, and a second one to five small, very old villages of the Luberon wine country. I can confidently recommend both tours. I cannot recommend this apartment, and its hosts, more highly. Despite my age and dodgy knee, I would very willingly climb that beautiful spiral staircase if I ever got another chance to visit the wonderful Aix-en-Provence, city of squares and fountains, cobblestone laneways and beautiful old buildings.