La façade de l'Hôtel Douce France, ancien relais de poste à Veules-les-Roses

Our story

A former coaching inn
in the heart of the village

Then

Where travellers stopped to change horses

Like every coaching inn, ours has seen its share of travellers, mail and weary teams of horses getting their strength back before setting off again along the roads of Normandy.

What remains is a silhouette you won't forget: the half-timbering, the two turrets, the great carriage porch and the cobbled courtyard where coaches once rolled in.

La cour pavée de l'Hôtel Douce France vue d'en haut
La terrasse de la cour avec ses tables et son chariot à glaces

Now

A hotel where you take your time

The coaching inn has become a charming hotel of twenty-six rooms and apartments, in one of the Most Beautiful Villages of France. The Veules, France's smallest river, flows just a stone's throw away, and the sea is only 350 metres off.

In the courtyard, the tables await the morning coffee, and the ice-cream cart the summer afternoons. Facing the sea, the Annexe carries the story on, with its feet in the pebbles.

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“Horses used to stop here for a rest. Me? I never left: it's far too nice here.”