Visit the Pont du Gard in Provence, just 15 minutes from our cottages in Uzès

Discover the Real France — From Your Own French Village Home

Planning an independent holiday in France?
Let us help you choose the perfect places to stay and discover the best of each region.

Imagine spending a week in a beautiful French village, exploring local markets, historic towns, country restaurants and magnificent scenery — all from the comfort of your own French home.

Then moving on to another wonderful and completely different region of France and doing it all again.

For more than 27 years, French Cottages has helped independent travellers experience the real France, staying in a small collection of carefully selected properties in four outstanding regions.

Tell us your approximate travel dates and we'll help you discover which of our French Cottages homes could form the perfect bases for your holiday.

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Personal advice • Carefully selected accommodation • No obligation

Plan your entire itinerary with French Cottages

A Better Way to Explore France:
Stay Longer. Discover More. Travel Less.

Why spend your holiday continually packing, unpacking and changing hotels?

We believe the most enjoyable way to discover France is to stay for a week or longer in a few carefully chosen locations, exploring each region at your own pace.

We call these locations your French holiday hubs.

From each French Cottages home, you can enjoy fascinating day trips to historic villages, magnificent countryside, vineyards, markets and cultural attractions.

Then return each evening to your own comfortable home in a real French village.

With two, three or four hubs, you can experience several very different regions of France without the constant disruption of moving from place to place.
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Four Wonderful Regions. Eight Carefully Selected Homes

Provence

Roman heritage, beautiful villages and the Mediterranean way of life.

What is it about this fabled region, or even the word Provence, that is so compelling?
The rugged beauty? The vestiges of Roman architecture?
Its Impressionist artistic heritage or the great wine and food?
You could spend a Year in Provence!

Loire Valley

Medieval villages, castles and outstanding French cuisine.

The Valley of the Kings; the Garden of France; the Land of the Great Châteaux.
Here is a region chosen by Royalty, where the wine flows and history greets you at every turn.
It is also stunningly beautiful, abounding in landscapes both wild and meticulously man-made.
A must see!

Dordogne

The land of châteaux, vineyards and French history.

This particularly beautiful region of France has had a curious attraction to humankind since prehistoric times. Celebrated rather more recently for its cuisine and wines, and the remarkable river that winds amongst its fairy-tale châteaux and Medieval villages, visiting the Périgord really does feel like travelling back
to a former era.

Pyrenees Basque

Mountains, traditional villages and a distinctive French culture

A Strange and Beautiful Region With Its Own Customs, Language and a Wonderful Cuisine. Princess Eugenie, the wife of Napoleon III loved it and so did other famous people such as Edward VII, Sarah Bernhardt, Maurice Ravel, Igor Stravinsky, Jean Cocteau, Ernest Hemingway, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayworth and Gary Cooper!

River beach under the 2000 year old Pont Du Gard

Every French Cottages property has been chosen for its character, comfort and location,providing an excellent base for discovering the surrounding region

Not Sure Which Regions to Choose?
We'll Help You Plan a Holiday Around Our French Cottages Homes.
Perhaps you have three or four weeks in France but aren't sure how best to divide your time.
Would Provence and Dordogne make a good combination? Should you include the Loire Valley? How much driving is involved between regions?
Which of our properties would best suit your interests?
That's where our experience can help.
We've been welcoming independent travellers to France since 1998, and we know the advantages of exploring the country from a series of comfortable, well-located homes.
Tell us when you're travelling, how long you have and what interests you.
We'll help you consider an itinerary using our available French Cottages properties, with practical suggestions for combining regions and making the most of your time.
Our initial itinerary and accommodation advice is complimentary and carries no obligation to book.
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The French Travel Guide is 123 pages of fascinating information about France's best destinations

The French Cottages Travel Guide

A practical, unique, experience-driven guide to travelling independently in France

For over 27 years, French Cottages has helped travellers experience France in a deeper, more relaxed and more authentic way. Over that time, we have accumulated an enormous amount of practical, real-world knowledge — not just about where to go, but how to travel well in France.

This guide is written for travellers who want to explore France independently, stay longer than just a few days, and experience real villages rather than tourist itineraries and those superficial river cruises.

The French Cottages Travel Guide exists to share that knowledge.

DOWNLOAD OUR 123-PAGE FRENCH
TRAVEL GUIDE AND BROCHURE.

Why choose us?

Over 27 Years of Experience

Since 1998, we've been helping independent travellers discover some of France's most rewarding regions.

Just Eight Carefully Selected Properties

We're not an enormous booking platform. Our small collection of homes has been chosen for quality, character and excellent locations.

A Real French Home, Not Another Hotel Room

Enjoy the comfort and independence of your own home while experiencing everyday life in a French village.

Help Choosing Your Holiday Hubs

We can advise on how to combine our properties into an enjoyable multi-region holiday, avoiding unnecessary travel and allowing time to explore.

Personal Service

You'll deal with people who know the properties, the regions and the pleasures of independent travel in France.

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Address

759 Rathdowne Street
North Carlton 3054
Victoria
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Contacts

Email: stay@frenchcottages.com
Phone: +61 (3) 8658 0799