Formidable France

Have you got kids and you need a grown-up break? It’s not cheap but it looks worth it:
http://www.chateaurigaud.co.uk/index.html
Read this family’s enviable experience:

Guardian article may 2007

Look out for the new Channel Tunnel link which should be completed on time in 2007.
The first half of the connection - to Ebbsfleet - was built on time. Now the second part, also with substantial Treasury guarantees, is nearing completion too, along with the comprehensively rebuilt station at St Pancras.

Close to home ... Reims is now just 45 minutes from Paris on the TGV:
Guardian article May 2007

Anyone planning a quick weekend jaunt to France should check out
http://www.bedbreak.com/
It has an impressive array of properties.

Le Spa Bleu, Ardeche, FranceThis 18th-century former farmhouse has views of vineyards, fruit trees and forested hills. It's a well-run but informal place offering an impressive range of alternative therapies from an international team of therapists. Smoking is allowed, and guests can help themselves to bottles of wine from the cellar-cum-games room. The farmhouse has an unheated outdoor private pool and a large indoor Jacuzzi with whirlpool and jetstream. Treatments range from the traditional to the esoteric such as "aquawellness" treatments by local expert, Anne Toulemonde , who combines watsu and j ahara to ease stresses and strains.· 0033 4 7539 9375, lespableu.com. From €60pp per night. Fly or train to Montpellier then a two-hour drive or bus to Aubenas