Villa Otilia

We had a lovely stay at Villa Otilia. Eric and Sylvie are magnificant hosts. Eric will guide you through the region and Sylvie makes the most wonderful food. We most definitely recommend to stay here in the oasis in la Provence verte.

This is not a hotel, not an airbnb, not a villa, but a bed and breakfast. With this particular property, the owners have very strict rules that guests should adhere to. These rules were not explicitly stated anywhere in the property, nor in their listing. If these rules were already presented before confirming our booking, we would not have stayed here. These limitations led us to a confrontation where the owners told us that it would be better for us to leave. We have decided the following morning to leave as we were afraid of the way they were speaking to us and to preserve our mental health. We were so afraid that during the first night we slept over the bed, didn’t go under the duvet afraid to mess it up or that we might get reprimanded for anything else that we’d do next. We couldn’t sleep that after the discussion at midnight, we looked for a hotel online until 3am and left the property at 9am the next day. Also, every time we go in and out of the property, we had to inform them so they can open the gates, they don’t give a key to the guests, you wouldn’t be able to go out as you like which is a massive restriction of freedom and not part of the chart of chambré d’hôtes rules. These “rules” are not “rules” which the owners kept emphasizing. They’re quite implicit with these house rules. For them these are things a normal “educated” person would have instinctively. For me, the way they speak to us was very patronising and hostile.