Bastide du Mourre

Style

Chic cure-all

Setting

Meditative Luberon massif

The Provençal vineyards stretching out over leafy hillsides surrounding Bastide du Mourre was our first clue that this might be our kind of wellness retreat. It’s set in a 17th-century country house with a gloriously green estate laid out like a hamlet, where rooms are quietly charming and hung with lavender bunches. There are HIIT classes, wake-up yoga, Pilates and hikes deep into the Luberon Regional Natural Park, but also immersed-in-nature massages; healthy food, decadently dressed; and wine. Surely that’s enough motivation to get up and go?

Facilities

Quartos

17.

Checkout

Noon, but flexible, on request and subject to availability. Earliest check-in, 4pm.

Mais detalhes

Rates don’t include the hotel’s healthy buffet-style breakfast (€30 a guest). But yoga sessions and two guided hikes a week are free and on arrival you’ll find green and black tea and some biscuits waiting for you.

Also

Unfortunately the vintage building and rugged farm outlay make this stay unsuitable for guests with mobility issues.

Hotel Closed

The hotel closes for the winter season.

Academia de ginástica

Acesso gratuito à Internet

Lavanderia

Aceitamos animais de estimação

Restaurante no local

Serviço de quarto

Spa

At the Hotel

Sauna, Nordic bath, sports hall, pétanque pitch, tennis court, bikes for hire (€75 for a full day), living room, umbrellas and plug-adaptors to borrow, charged laundry service, and free WiFi. In rooms: minibar, air-conditioning, bath products.

Our Favourite Rooms

There’s a rustic spareness to rooms – with white walls and just a desk, posies of dried flowers and perhaps a wooden shutter or the ghost of the Bastide’s former features (a fireplace, painted-over window…), but this contributes to the sense of calm and draws focus to those soul-stirring green views. The Superior has views over the Luberon mountains, and the Grande Deluxe is the largest on the property.

Poolside

The sizable heated pool is hidden in the garden’s greenery, surrounded by loungers and sherbet-hued parasols, with a glimpse of mountains between the branches.

Spa

Spa-ing is practically mandatory here – how else can you fully achieve inner peace and a dewy glow? You’ll be pampered in ‘pods’ set amid the trees, with just the rustle of leaves to disturb. Products are by organic French brand On the Wild Side, which will brighten, lift and scrub as part of botanically scented facials, wraps and massages (or special Ayurvedic and Renata França-method therapies and reflexology on request). Mani-pedis and waxing can be booked too, and the sauna and Nordic bath (heated to 35 degrees) in the grounds will steam any worries away. Fitness comes in the form of yoga and HIIT classes, and hikes into nature, and there are a range of specialists whose services you can call on, from dieticians to naturopaths to shiatsu practitioners.

Packing Tips

Here’s what you’ll need to make a new you: yoga and work-out gear, hiking shoes and swimming costumes.

Also

The hotel recognises that snacking is an important part of wellness too, and so nuts, fresh fruit and detox waters are laid out from 4pm to 6pm daily.

Crianças

All ages welcome; extras beds can be added to Deluxe and Grande Deluxe rooms for €50 a night (an extra €15 to include breakfast; free for under-twos).

Galeria

Food & Drink

Top Table

Wherever you can look out upon the Luberon range – although you can’t really miss these majestic mountains.

Dress code

Peel off the Lycra for something waftier and summery.

Hotel Restaurant

The seasonally changing snack menu features healthy eating with an emphasis on plants and garden-grown ingredients, making ‘good for you’ very good indeed. Enjoy dishes like gazpacho, quinoa salad and salmon gravlax.

Hotel Bar

Drink to your health with fresh juice or green and black tea – or maybe with a few chilled glasses of Provençal wine.

Last Orders

Breakfast is from 8am to 10.30am.

Room Service

You can dine in-room during restaurant hours.

Planes

Avignon Airport has a small number of routes in Europe and is just a 30-minute drive from the hotel. However, Marseille, an hour’s drive away, has a wider spread of global international connections. From here, the hotel can arrange transfers (from €130 to €190 one-way, depending on the time and day).

Trains

Cavaillon station, a 20-minute drive away, is the closest. From here you can ride to Marseille or Avignon. And, the Avignon TGV Station will let you explore the wider region. Transfers can be arranged from both (prices range from €50 to €100).

Automobiles

The wonderfully wild Luberon is best explored by car, and the hotel has free parking 200 metres or so from the main building – but you could easily come here and spend your whole stay onsite, stretching your legs on verdant hikes.

Worth Getting Out of Bed For

If you’re on a wellness mission, gather your yoga gear, hiking shoes and meditation mantra, and come find yourself amid truffle oaks, lush vineyards and flowering jasmine shrubs at the heart of the Luberon. Formerly a Provençal farm, Bastide du Mourre gives you space from the real world for a little while, and offers you divergent wellness paths: one that treks merrily along wildlife-rich, butterfly-fluttered trails in the Luberon Regional Natural Park (with knowledgeable guides to point out plants of note, geological features and regale you with the region’s history; twice a week, and free for guests); stops for a friendly game of tennis; then sweats it out on a tailored bootcamp or at an alfresco HIIT session. And another, that doesn’t really go anywhere, just meandering around the grounds, simmering away in the sauna or Nordic bath, flopping in the spa to be wrapped in olive-tree leaves or be massaged with mint and eucalyptus, and stretching gently at yoga classes (three free a week) that follow various disciplines or Pilates. You call the shots when it comes to your betterment style. Otherwise Oppède is a very jolie village to explore, as are Bonnieux, Gordes, Lacoste, Roussillon… alongside many others in this lovable corner of Provence. And, for a heady hit of the region’s best-loved flower, follow your nose to the Lavender Museum.

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