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Il Sereno Como
Il Sereno brings a new era of luxury to the banks of Italy’s iconic Lake Como. Awarded the title of “Most Anticipated New Luxury Hotel Opening in 2016” by Luxury Travel Advisor magazine, Il Sereno’s ethos of understated elegance presents a freshness to this well-established destination. Designed by Patricia Urquiola, Wallpaper* Magazine Designer of The Year 2015, the all-suite hotel promises modern style and an authentic…
Royal Mansour Marrakech
The Royal Mansour can be counted amongst the few establishments in the world that defy hotel excellence. Just a few steps away from the famous Jemaa El Fna square beats the heart of the Marrakesh Palace, offering travellers the unique concept of a medina within a medina.
Each area has been designed to intuitively take guests on a sensory journey. Take a step into the secret and sumptuous history of one of the…
Cliveden House
Cliveden House is a privately owned 5 Red Star award-winning hotel, and sister to the world-renowned Chewton Glen Hotel & Spa in Hampshire. Our story is one of over 350 years of powerful personalities, iconic parties and scandalous affairs. Built in 1666 by the 2nd Duke of Buckingham, as a gift to his mistress, Cliveden House has remained a pinnacle of…
Kudadoo Private Island
Kudadoo’s renowned eco-consciousness and sleek design extend to the Maldives island’s 15 over-water residences where your uninterrupted enjoyment of the private island charm and the splendid natural surrounds are the norm….
Azulik Tulum
In the heart of the Mayan jungle, a revolutionary project is about to redefine human evolution. A new vision of the future that is guided by ancestral knowledge and creates community is beginning to shape up.The VILLAS of AZULIK Tulum are built in harmony with the Mayan jungle and the Caribbean Sea. With no electric light, A/C, or television, we present nature as our main amenity, setting the perfect mood for a…
Aria Hotel Budapest
The Aria Hotel Budapest is a luxury boutique hotel with an exquisite design inspired by music. To compliment the musical concept, master designer Zoltan Varro’s vision was to simultaneously recreate the rich, lavish atmosphere of a historic Hungarian palace while also embracing visitors in the warmth and comfort of a private residence…
Piccolo Hotel Portofino
Hotel Piccolo Portofino, surrounded by the typical luxuriant vegetation of the Liguria Riviera, among the crystal clear water of Portofino and the blue sky, is a piece of art of the reception, unique of its kind. A hidden jewel, that has to be searched end discovered. Obtained from a refined period villa, today it is a boutique hotel, and from its generous terraces, a breathtaking view onto this exclusive stretch of coast…
Bawah Reserve
A gorgeous tropical paradise surrounded by a blue ocean, Bawah Reserve sits in sheltered seclusion 160 nautical miles (300km) northeast of Singapore in the remote Anambas Archipelago, Indonesia. This pristine and previously uninhabited marine conservation area is surrounded by turquoise lagoons and coral reefs, which cater to outdoor adventurers looking to indulge as well as those looking to relax in paradise…
Gecko Hotel & Beach Club Formentera
In the beautiful and protected island of Formentera, Gecko Hotel & Beach Club was set out for like-minded individuals to unwind, connect with oneself and nature and above all celebrate life. Gecko brings to Formentera a new form of hospitality that unites our love for the island, the beach life and the elegance of a time in the past that continues to inspire us. Our clublike restaurant, in front of the Migjorn beach, offers a…
Laucala Island Fiji
A private island refuge in the South Pacific, Laucala unites dramatic rainforest-laced landscapes and white sandy beaches with unparalleled levels of luxury and privacy. No expense has been spared at the exclusive tropical hideaway, where 25 Fijian-styled villas are set amid coconut plantations, beside deserted beaches and atop the island’s volcanic mountains, overlooking fertile coral reefs and endless jungle. Style and…
Château de La Chèvre d’Or
Nature is everywhere at Château de la Chèvre d’Or. There are lots of different gardens filled with sculptures, fountains, waterfalls, flowers, herbs, trees and shrubs. The area is perfumed with the scents of jasmine, bougainvillea and roses. The magnificent colors create a framework that blends into the horizon and the sea…
Relais Borgo Santo Pietro
Situated in the heart of Tuscany, Relais Borgo Santo Pietro was once a healing stopover for medieval pilgrims. Today it continues to provide a sanctuary for modern souls, merging a 5 star luxury hotel and spa concept with a ‘farm to plate’ philosophy on a 300-acre estate. A sumptuous feeling of home pervades the 800-year-old luxury farmhouse hotel, with its worn leather armchairs pulled up around open fires, fresh flower…
Casa Casuarina Miami
Casa Casuarina was built in 1930 by Alden Freeman. Alden Freeman’s father, Joel Freeman was Treasurer of The Standard Oil Trust (also known as Rockefeller’s Company) and left Alden a fabulous wealth when he passed away. That gave the young and wealthy Alden the opportunity to retire at the age of 27 from being an architect and travel all over the world. Alden was also a descendent of the Mayflower on his mother’s side…
Il San Pietro Di Positano
The San Pietro di Positano is more than a hotel. It is a journey within a journey, where memories are created and never forgotten. A haven of peace, immersed in nature, this elegant home harmonises old-world traditions of hospitality with contemporary, understated luxury. Escape to this small slice of paradise suspended between the sea and sky. Carved into the cliff overlooking the mediterranean Sea, our rooms are a…
Cavo Tagoo Santorini
The exclusive Cavo Tagoo Santorini, twin of Cavo Tagoo Mykonos is located within walking distance from Fira and just a few kilometers from Oia, the resort offers luxurious suites, spectacular sunsets over the sea and a personalized service exceptional. All Suites are modern and feature a hot tub or private pool on the terrace style, design details, 43-inch LCD satellite TV, patio or terrace with stunning panoramic view…
Meneghetti Wine Hotel & Winery
In search for unique places, sometimes you need to get off the main roads. However, let them lead you to Bale, Istria. Then slow down and follow the road that gets narrower with every mile, as nature draws closer. Slow down even more, and then make a turn into the white road. As the iron gates of the Meneghetti estate open up in front of you, stop for just one moment – and realize that the magic actually appears off the…
Palazzo Navona Rome
The innovative Palazzo Navona Hotel fully deserved of its role as being amongst one of the most qualified 4 star Hotels within the city “centro”, capable of fulfilling its own lifestyle qualities to satisfy even the most demanding guest. The intimate and charming ambience emits a feeling of almost magic by creating a special atmosphere which pervades this residence surrounded by its historical-art and ancient Roman…
Mnemba Island Lodge
Steeped in culture and history, Zanzibar enticed adventurers, seafarers and traders from far and wide. Known as the spice island, from the centuries old trade of cloves, nutmeg and cinnamon, today the Zanzibar Archipelago is still bathed in the heady scents of spices and traditional dhows still drift across the horizon. A romantic hideaway, Mnemba Island is an exclusive paradise featuring twelve rustically chic beachside…
Cocos Hotel Antigua
Perched on a lush green hillside, encircled by miles of heavenly blue sea and sandwiched between two gorgeous white sand beaches is COCOS Hotel, an all inclusive Antigua resort for couples and adults only. This rustic yet romantic and cozy boutique resort is located on the sunset side of the beautiful Caribbean Island of Antigua and comprises of a collection of 35 quaint wooden Cottages positioned on a pictoresque…
Villa Principe Leopoldo Lugano
Live in a fairy tale, surrounded by prestige and nature. Imagine contemplating Lugano’s beauty in a princely residence. The former private home of German Emperor Wilhelm’s brother in law, the Villa is located on a picturesque promontory called the Collina d’Oro (Golden Hill), whose views and location are the best kept secret in town. If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to live in a legendary home, a stay…
Villa Belvedere Taormina
Hotel Villa Belvedere is a delightful and charming boutique hotel, located at just a few minutes from Taormina’s lively town centre and from the world-famous Greek-Roman Theatre, which are both reachable by walking through the inspiring and panoramic Duca di Cesarò Botanic Gardens. The hotel benefits of wonderful views over the sea, the bay of Naxos and Mount Etna. The hotel has always been…
Juma Amazon Lodge
With its prime location in one of the most remote and preserved regions of the Amazon Rainforest, Juma Amazon Lodge is an intimate and inviting property harmoniously nestled into the forest environment which defines it. Juma Amazon Lodge features 19 intimate bungalows seamlessly nestled into the lush surroundings of the Amazon Rainforest. In order to accommodate the water levels of the wet season…
La Clef Champs-Élysées Paris
La Clef Champs-Élysées Paris, a 5-star hotel in the centre of Paris, offers you a unique stay in a typically Parisian atmosphere. The building was built in 1907 by the Hennessy family, during the enchanting interlude offered by the Paris of the “Belle Époque”. Reflecting this magical era, our luxury hotel in Paris embodies a certain French art de vivre. La Clef Champs-Élysées Paris enjoys an idyllic setting and immerses you in the…
Boutique Hotel Die Alpbacherin
The history of DER ALPBACHERIN began in the former Angelika house. Some time ago, in the middle of Alpbach, at house number 405, stood the small bed and breakfast “Haus Angelika”. Georg and Lisa ran them with a lot of love. The success proved you right and so the desire for a new place for more guests was born. A dream came true. Together with daughter Valentina and her boyfriend Thomas, plans, dreams and…
A visit to the Domaine de Rochevilaine is a deeply moving experience – surprise and wonderment… Which is the more awe-inspiring, the site’s natural beauty or the beautiful stone manor house? The gateway to truth, a monumental thirteenth century porch, opens out onto a group of historic dwellings amidst a sea of flowers.
Inspired by love and the pleasure of sharing with others, Bertrand JAQUET has developed, embellished and confirmed this Relais & Châteaux hotel as one of the jewels of the Breton hotel sector. Standing at the water’s edge, with your eyes fixed on the horizon, time has no hold on you.
A rare site : a rocky peninsula over 1 hectare in size, including a 300 m private marine façade. Architectural buildings steeped in history dotted around the gardens. 37 rooms and suites offering stunning views. The “Spa marin” 1 300 m² devoted to your wellness, pioneers of Spas in France.
The gourmet restaurant and exhilarating cuisine by Maxime Nouail Maître Cuisinier de France, awarded one Michelin star. The hotel, the restaurant the “Spa marin” are open 365 days a year.
OUR HISTORY
Domaine de Rochevilaine, “key” location of the old route of pewter, is a place where the Phoenicians are said to have bought and transported the necessary pewter to copper smelters producing bronze, which was the universal material back then. They probably were its first hosts.
Many years later, in the 13th century, Jean the 1st Duke of Brittany founded the abbey of Prayers in Pen Lan. It was offered to the Cistercian monks so they could pray night and day for their founder and… for the sailors’ souls that would wreck on that dangerous coast, hence its name of Prayers.
Rochevilaine still has a lookout post from that time, which is part of the abbey property, it is contiguous to a circular turret used to stock powders (wine today!). In the 19th century, Pen Lan will have a very active economic life.
It is the peak of the “white gold” salt marshes, whose production was once implemented by the abbey of Prayers’ monks. Furthermore, the coastal fishing fleet stimulates the little port.
Even more recently, different blocks from the “Atlantic wall” were set up in this strategic location – cannon platforms, underground shelters… Rochevilaine remembers those fortifications as there are so many underground. After the 2nd world conflict, only a memory represented by abandoned walls was left.
Henri Dresch, engineer and industrialist, buys the place in 1952. He started clearing, cleaning the place and “fixing up” the Viscount’s house, an old 19th century resort villa that the war reduced to ruins, to open a hostel in 1956 that will be featured in the Michelin Guide from 1958. Thus, step by step, an unusual kind of hotel emerged.
Two manors in the inland were transported stone by stone – one from the 15th century, the other one from the 16th… Then a monumental 13th century porch was added. Henri Dresch will leave an amazing architectural complex.
A few difficult years will pass before Jean-Pierre Liégeois, a doctor, who was sensitive to the place’s energies, happily starts building a real full-granite castle – named Aqua Phénicia – and flooded with light through an inner canopy.
In 1997, after getting a solid reputation of hôtelier restaurateur and developing a very important hotel group in France and Europe, Bertrand Jaquet, with his wealth of experience, runs the Rochevilaine ship and paradoxically becomes its first hotel owner.
Wise, innovating, man of action and passion, Bertrand Jaquet is in line with the founder, Henri Dresch. His choices are always driven by posterity’s sake. His daughter Cécile Nouail Jaquet and his son-in-law Maxime Nouail have been working with him for several years.
As a pioneer, Bertrand Jaquet builds the first French Spa in the Rochevilaine Domain in 1997. The notion of “sea spa” was born! In 2004, this Breton hotel jewel successfully returns to the prestigious international organization Relais & Châteaux.
It must be noted that he is one of their oldest members in the whole Birttany region, since he appeared in the Relais de Campagne guide from 1961, which was the former international grouping.
ANITA CONTI’S ROOM
In tribute to Anita Conti “la dame de la mer”, the first French oceanographer, ecologist before time, a magnificent suite has just been realized at Domaine de Rochevilaine.
On the whole ground floor of the 19th century house, 100 sqm of living space facing the sea, south facing. A private garden of full foot, itself of 90 m ², sheltered in the shelter of the winds with panoramic sight on the bay.
The luxuriously decorated and air-conditioned suite includes an independent bedroom with a king size bed, a magnificent bathroom and a double shower over the garden, a lounge, a dining area … not to mention the courtesy bar and the magnificent exhibition of Photos by Anita Conti. A unique holiday resort in Brittany.
MANOIR DE LA MINE D’OR
The “Closerie de la Mine d’Or” is an 125 m² residence, a large terrace with a seaview, a large outdoor jacuzzi, a private garden with a fountain and a collection of plants.
Inside, there is a stunning fireplace and a range of other facilities including a complimentary bar. The spacious private terrace faces the listed site “La Mine d’Or” in Pénestin renowned for its golden cliffs which reflects the colours of precious metal at sunset.
MANOIR DES CARDINAUX
This remarkable 15th century building perched on a rocky spur is named after the famous battle of the Cardinals. This historic treasure is a haven of peace boasting a surface area of over 100 m² just for you, in 3 different main rooms: Four bay windows overlooking the sea, a spacious living area, dining room and south-facing terrace,
a cosy room with terrace where you can watch the sunrise, a bathroom offering a panoramic view over the ocean, in which you can breath in the fresh sea air from your whirlpool bath or from the sofa.
THE RESTAURANT
Recommended by all the renowned food guides, the gourmet restaurant invites you for a gourmet meal prepared with ingredients sourced locally, respecting nature and the work of passionate men and women.
The ocean surrounds the 3 rooms offering a panoramic view of the sea as if you are on a ship’s deck ! A contemporary decor comprising rare Breton antiques, 18th century marine paintings and parquet.
The restaurant is open all year round for lunch and evening meals. In the summer, you can enjoy your lunch in the garden near the pilgrims’ fountain surrounded by plants.
THE CHEF
The menu, elaborated by the chef, Maxime Nouail, changes to reflect the seasons. The restaurant offers gourmet meals as well as more simple dishes and snacks that can be enjoyed on the terrace in the summer or in your apartment.
The Chef works with only the freshest ingredients from land and sea sourced from local suppliers. His fish tank faces his kitchen: lobsters and crustaceans, oysters from Pénerf and the bay of Quiberon, bass from the island of Dumet, sole from la Turballe, shrimps from Le Guilvinec.
BREAKFAST
Breakfast at the Domaine de Rochevilaine is an unexpected experience, a delicious ode of Breton land… the first pleasures of the day ! The Domaine de la Rochevilaine has moved away from the traditional buffet breakfast and offers original menus for a balanced breakfast.
Our team of chefs meticulously create the finest home-made breakfasts made from locally sourced ingredients. Breakfast is served with discretion in your apartment or suite from 7.30am to 11.30am or in the “Rotonde” restaurant overlooking the ocean from 7.30am to 10am.
POOL COMPLEX & WELLNESS CENTER
The swimming pool heated to 30°, sauna, a hammam and aquatic circuit have been designed so that you never want to leave! In the intimacy of the spa where each details reminds you of the ocean and where you are surrounded by high performance, new generation equipment, you can enjoy all the benefits of the water, steam and heat to recharge your batteries before heading off to visit the Morbihan and southern Brittany.
Tea and fresh water are available to complete your relaxing break in Morbihan bay
TREATMENTS
The spa centre offers you the opportunity to discover a range of high quality revitalizing treatments, an intimist ambiance, and luxury products during a relaxing wellness break on the edge of the Vilaine esturay in the Morbihan in southern Brittany ! In 1997, Bertrand Jaquet equipped the Domaine de Rochevilaine with the first French spa.
Thanks to its high quality service, the Aqua Phénicia Spa at the Domaine de Rochevilaine has received the title of “Relais & Châteaux Dream Spa” and a Worldwide award (Best well-being concept, spa and fitness room).
A team of experienced professionals is at your disposal, ready to listen to you, 7 days a week. They will advise you on which treatment to have or suggest different courses.
Wellness, agility, mobility, rejuvenation… a six day retreat is ideal. A range of day treatments are also available: hydromassage baths with seaweed and salts, Jordan mud wraps, seaweed wraps, body exfoliation using salt from the Dead Sea… The spa is open 7 days a week from 9am to 1pm and from 2pm to 7pm.
DOMAINE DE ROCHEVILAINE
Visit the Morbihan during your stay at the hotel. Head for the tourist trails in southern Brittany on foot or by bike, along the marked walking paths inland and on the coast. Visit the popular tourist attractions combining tradition and modernity. Admire the extraordinary heritage and culture that will leave nobody indifferent.
MEDIEVAL TOWN OF VANNES (30 KM)
Discover Vannes, capital city of the Morbihan. Behind the medieval ramparts, this town steeped in history has managed to preserve its rich historic and architectural heritage.
ROCHEFORT-EN-TERRE (35KM)
Discover Rochefort-en-Terre, one of the prettiest “small towns of character” in Brittany. Visit the chateau, the ramparts and ancient residences with colourful flowered façades. The quaint boutiques, art galleries and stalls are open all year round.
LA ROCHE-BERNARD (20KM)
Head for La Roche-Bernard and take a step back in time. Discover this authentic coastal village.
LA GACILLY, TOWN OF FINE ARTS (57KM)
Nestled in the Aff valley, La Gacilly boasts a fabulous cultural and architectural heritage. The town is lively all year round thanks to the Yves Rochers gardens and arts and crafts workshops in the centre.
MALESTROIT (40KM)
Ideally situated on the edge of the Oust, the ancient town of Malestroit, a small town of character, will take you back through the centuries.
LE GUERNO (13KM)
Discover Le Guerno, a small town of character in the Morbihan, renowned for its flowered houses and magnificent 16th century Templars church.
