Bergerac City Vacation farmhouse rental with internet access, balcony/terrace, golf and walking

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  • Farmhouse
  • 3 bedrooms
  • Sleeps 6
  • 5 nights min stay
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Key information

  • 100% refund within 24 hours after booking. See Policies & House Rules
  • Swimming pool
  • Child friendly
  • Car advised
  • Pet friendly

From the owner

Rigal is open all year, 20 minutes from Bergerac airport. Long weekend winter breaks, perfect tranquility but close to ALL amenities. Half term and Easter holidays, full central heating and cosy wood burner. Wonderful vineyards, markets and Chateaux and delightful Bordeaux is a day trip away.

Summer is sun, fun & luxury living. Stay at our stylish family-friendly farm with heated salt water swimming pool in a beautiful corner of France & you may never want to leave.

Your holiday at Rigal is an exciting opportunity to enjoy a relaxing and authentic French farmhouse experience.

Our three-bedroom child-friendly farmhouse nestles in 100 acres of organic pasture and woodland on a low intensity, free-range organic farm and is ideal for up to 6 guests plus cots, perfect for a family or a family travelling with grandparents who have their own ensuite bedroom on the ground floor.

The children can immerse themselves in safe and peaceful country surroundings, explore the extensive outdoor space and play equipment, make friends with the farm animals and help to feed them every morning, a highlight for the children ( and often all the family)

Our completely renovated farmhouse has:

3 en-suite bedrooms

Large lounge diner with woodburner and fabulous fireplace

Modern fully equipped kitchen

2 private terraces overlooking our 100 acres

12x6m heated saltwater pool with verandah, sunloungers

2 play areas for the children, netted trampoline, toys

Daily animal feeding, plenty to see and stoke

Extensive equipment for toddlers and babies including:

• Cot(s) and linen, fitted cot sheet, top sheet, blanket

• High Chair

• Booster seat

• Baby Monitor

• Changing mat and/or changing table

• Steriliser

• Stairgates (where needed)

• Potty

• Child's Loo seat

• Child's step

• Plastic cups, crockery and cutlery including weaning spoons

• Bath Toys and non-slip mat

• Hand held blender

• Bed Guard

• Blackout blinds/curtains/shutters in child's bedrooms

• A range of age appropriate outdoor toys

• A range of age appropriate indoor toys and books

• DVD player, screen and children's DVD – on request

• Microwave

• Night lights in children's bedrooms

INSIDE

Our farmhouse is a classic honey-toned Dordogne stone building, renovated with care and attention to ensure a beautifully decorated interior with a contemporary French feel.

The huge open plan sitting room and dining space, with a high exposed beamed ceiling, has two comfy sofas positioned in front of the fabulous ancient fireplace with a wood burner.

Family evenings, or taking a break from the French sunshine, are easy with the children helping themselves from the dresser full of toys and books or snuggling up in front of the television with UK satellite television or a movie from the DVD library.

French windows look out over a terrace and the huge back garden leading onto the medieval-designed organic vegetable patch, fields and woodlands.

The large dining table has plenty of space for all the family to enjoy meals together, with seating for up to 12.

Whether its preparing a simple breakfast or rustling up a French feast, cooking in the bright and airy kitchen is a pleasure - and there's plenty of room for the whole family to get involved. Fully-fitted with Shaker-style units and a double butler sink, it's equipped with all the usual mod cons including an oven/hob, fridge freezer, dishwasher and microwave.

A kitchen table with stools is perfect for snack time.

And there's no need to take all your laundry home with you as there is also a washing machine, neatly tucked away in a cupboard under the stairs.

Also on the ground floor is a delightful double bedroom, with a king-size bed, designed to ensure a good night's rest or relaxing afternoon nap.

This bedroom is perfect for grandparents who might like some space and privacy, or may find negotiating the stairs difficult. Alternatively, the room has plenty of space for a cot if being used by a couple with a baby.

A modern bathroom is accessed directly from this bedroom and the kitchen.

Upstairs, with child safety gates at the top and bottom, are two bedrooms in the renovated attic space. The landing and bedrooms have sloping ceilings and beautiful exposed beams.

The stylish master bedroom, with feature oak beamed, has a king-size bed, separate dressing room and en suite shower room. There is ample space for several cots in this relaxing bedroom.

A twin room, with an en suite shower room, is a lovely children's bedroom and also has space for a cot.

OUTSIDE

The private rear terrace is the perfect place to enjoy adult time in the evening when the children are in bed and it's position takes full advantage of the wonderful evening sunshine.

The private front terrace overlooks the tree-shaded courtyard, furnished with a table, chairs and barbecue, where there is a swings and slide set for smaller children.

At the far end of the courtyard is the fully-enclosed 12m x 6m salt-water, heated swimming pool, with Roman steps for easy access, enclosed by fencing and a self-locking gate and featuring two splash alarms.

Poolside shade is provided by a covered veranda and there are plenty of sun loungers for relaxing.

Beside the pool is a large, netted trampoline and, a little further up a gentle slope towards the woods, sits a second very large timber play set for older children.

Designed by British company Treetops, the play houses, swing, slide, climbing wall and climbing net are sure to be a magnet for older children and provide hours of creative play.

There is a good view of the play equipment from the pool area, allowing grown-ups to enjoy some quiet time while the little ones play to their hearts' content.

The farm also has plenty of friendly animals to see and stroke, from pigs to cows, rabbits to guinea pigs, ponies to doves.

Or you can visit the rare breed chickens - and maybe even collect some eggs - which share their stone-built home with the farm's resident ducks

Further details indoors

The Gite can comfortably sleep 6 plus cots and a floating bed if a child wants to or needs to sleep in a different room.With 3 en-suite bedrooms ,a kingsized bedroom and twin bedroom upstairs and a kingsized bedroom downstairs with en-suite bath/shower room.Both the king sized mattresses are pocket sprung orthopedic and very comfy.There is a wooden cot and a travel cot if required. There is a new fully fitted kitchen with dishwasher, microwave and washing machine, a spacious lounge with wood-burning stove and satellite television and DVD player. There is a dining area and outside you will find a walled courtyard to the front and to the rear a terrace and grassed area for BBQ's (provided) and watching the sunset. Everyone comments on how spacious the gite is and that it looks like it is straight out of a magazine..which is it....Country homes and Interiors Feb2011 and Living France March 2011
Of course there is WIFI to keep you up to date with waht's happening in the world as time seems to standstill at Rigal.

Eco-Tourism
Le Rigal estate is run organically, our pastures were officially recognized as organic in 2014 ; no chemicals are used on the pastures and re-cycling is a way of life. You will find recycling bins close to the gite where paper, card, plastic containers, boxes, bags, bottles, tins, cans and so on can be collected and recycled. A composting system is in place and most kitchen waste (apart from meat) can be composted. The compost produced is then spread onto our organic vegetable plot.
The wood burning stove in the gite is an environmentally friendly form of heating (if required!) using wood coppiced and collected from the estate.There is also wood burning central heating making out of season visits warm and comfortable. The salt water pool conforms to all the latest safety and filtration standards. The pool is a salt water pool thus avoiding chemicals that damage the skin and environment.

We have a variety of livestock, including several ponies. Much of the estate is grazed by cattle all safely fenced and we have a flock of hens and ducks including rare breeds.

Further details outdoors

Outside there is a new large heated salt-water swimming pool, table tennis, swings, sand-pit and a trampoline with acres of space for games of frisby, badminton, football or cricket in a safe environment. There is woodland to explore and walks straight from the front door. With farm trails, areas to make dens, and feeding the animals the children who come to stay at Rigal have so much to do.There are laminated details of all the marked walks in the local area. There garden is best described as parkland as there is so much of it! but in the courtyard there is an apple orchard with very safe gardens you can view from the comfort of the patio.
There is a terrace in front of the gite with table and chairs for dining( bbq providied) and also a table by the pool for relaxed poolside dining. There are sun loungers and wooden chairs by the pool.
At dusk you can often see deer and hear owls hooting, crickets cricketing! and frogs croaking.
We have a variety of livestock, including several horses and ponies.There is Misty the sheepdog who keeps a watchful eye on our small flock of rare breed free range chickens. The rest of our land is grazed by cattle.

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Amenities

Bed & bathroom

  • Bedroom 1: Queen Bed
  • Bedroom 2: 2 Twin beds
  • Bedroom 3: Queen Bed
  • Beds in other rooms:
  • 1 Family bathroom, 3 En suites

Families

  • Great for children of all ages
  • Pets welcome
  • 2 Cribs
  • High chair

Access

  • Parking
  • Secure parking
  • Accessible for wheelchair users — please contact the owner for details before booking

Essentials

  • Wi-Fi available
  • Shared outdoor pool (heated)
  • Climbing frame
  • Swing set
  • Trampoline
  • BBQ
  • Balcony or terrace
  • Internet access
  • Central heating
  • Fireplace
  • Table tennis
  • Stove
  • Fridge
  • Freezer
  • Microwave
  • Toaster
  • Kettle
  • Dishwasher
  • Washing machine
  • Clothes dryer
  • Iron
  • High chair
  • TV
  • Satellite TV
  • DVD player
  • Stereo system
  • Linen provided
  • Towels provided

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Interaction with guest

Many of our guests have stayed before but if you are new to Rigal you will find that you will receive a warm welcome along with a bottle of local wine and some freshly laid free range eggs. We visit the farm in the morning to feed the animals and you are invited to join us to feed, stroke and get to know the animals. During this time we are on hand to recommend places of interest to visit, make restaurant reservations for you or just to answer any questions you have or sort out any problems. We pop round in the evening to close the animals away, if you want to chat we are available, if privacy is what you are looking for there are plenty of quiet places to relax and unwind.
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Check in: 16:00 Check out: 10:00
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This rental can only be paid for online through Holiday Lettings using your credit/debit card or PayPal (never by bank or wire transfer).
Damage deposit: ($126.24) £100.00

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Smoking

No smoking at this property

House rules

Family friendly, toddler and baby equipment, certified by Tots to Travel, toys, books, dvds, cots, cot bedding, high chairs, buggy, potties we have most equipment for little ones, just ask.

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About the owner

Chris And Jacqueline H.
Calendar last updated:
05 Sep 2023

Years listed:
14

Languages spoken: English, French
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lisadel13
Ampthill, United Kingdom

Mr
Sep 2019

We had the perfect week at Rigal in September! It was the ideal holiday for our young family - Chris and Jacky made us feel very welcome, and our daughter couldn’t wait to see Jacky in the morni… More 

5 Oct 2019

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snapej68
Worcester, United Kingdom

Wonderful, relaxing holiday
Aug 2018

We had a wonderful week staying in the gite at Le Rigal. The gite itself is very well equipped, comfortable and decorated tastefully. Le Rigal itself is blissfully relaxing, the pool is a good size an… More 

19 Aug 2018

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icklelou2
Guildford, United Kingdom

Amazing!!
Jun 2018

This is our second holiday at Rigal after staying last October. It was even more fantastic than we remembered , we couldn’t have asked for a better family holiday. The pool was lovely and warm … More 

12 Jul 2018

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FarAway706488
Birmingham, United Kingdom

Excellent relaxing week with the ducks and chickens
Jun 2018

We stayed with friends in the Gite….very well appointed and fantastic areas at both the front and the back of the house to enjoy sunshine at both ends of the day. Chris and Jacky are regularly… More 

24 Jun 2018

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123louc
Guildford, United Kingdom

The perfect holiday!
Oct 2017

This is the most wonderful place to stay! Chris and Jacqui were wonderful hosts, they provide so many things for children, even including a buggy, we had everything we needed. The farmhouse is beautif… More 

21 Apr 2018

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Occasionally, you will pay a damage deposit up front as part of the total rental cost. In this case, the owner has 10 days after you check out to report any damage. If they don’t, we’ll return your deposit. If their claim is successful, we’ll deduct the agreed cost and return the remainder.

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How can I retract my booking request?

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Go to Manage your holiday booking to cancel your booking. Here you can view your cancellation policy to see if you’ll be refunded.

How do I edit my booking?

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If Chris and Jacqueline (the owner) agrees, they’ll send you a revised quote outlining the changes. You can review and accept/decline this from the Manage your holiday booking page. You’ll have 48 hours to take action before the revised quote expires.

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