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Review: Le Barn

A new breed of French country hotel is built-in simply 45 minutes outside Paris—with stables, spa, and village pastimes.

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Prepare the scene.
A bulldoze through the wood south of Paris leads to what feels like a Gallic Soho farmhouse, set up amid meadows, with grain stores, big-roofed barns and a 19th-century mill transformed into a hotel, where Clark the domestic dog supervises children modeling with dirt from the games closet, and piles of brunch-fourth dimension charcuterie await in the conservatory. What's the story behind it?
It's part of Marugal, a Paris-based mini-group that white-labels some of its backdrop for their corresponding owners, and is planning to accept Le Barn concept global—affordable, well-designed family-friendly rooms gear up in compellingly natural landscapes, a short drive from the urban center. Shanghai may exist next. What can we expect from our room?
Parisian design studio Exist-poles—other projects include NoMad hotels in New York and L.A.—has repurposed several Fifties barns into bedrooms with waxed sheet defunction, Shaker-style furniture and Frédéric Wood horse sketches tacked to cork walls. Some take shared balconies overlooking a fishing pond. Bathrooms are sleek in matte black and white Metro tiles; white linen-sheeted beds were comfortable merely the overall impression is one of Moonrise Kingdom summer camp rather than country pile. The tech is non-invasive and works well. How about the food and drink?
Rustic French with brunch tables heaped with local meats and cheeses, oven-toasty baguettes, and croissants aslope French salted butters and organic fruit jams. An outdoor grill fires upwards at weekends as well, to the delight of carnivores, just there are plenty of fresh salads too. Breakfast is included. Annihilation to say about the service?
This is more than near the experience than the service, though it runs efficiently and living quarters are kept spotless. Food arrived promptly, the bartenders fabricated splendid café au lait and, in the spa, the Indian yoga instructor will knead away travel aches in silence. Who comes here?
Parisians from the sixth, 7th, or 16th arrondissements, who seem to know each other already but not in a cliquey way. Breton stripes and espadrilles won't seem out of place. Is there anything interesting nearby?
Le Befouled shares 500 acres in the Rambouillet woods with French republic's famous holistic horsemanship schoolhouse, La Cense—just information technology's best to explore the surrounding woodland and small villages by bicycle. Set the coordinates for Rochefort-en-Yvelines, Rambouillet, or Chevreuse. Annihilation we missed?
There is no check-in or bank check-out fourth dimension, and very frequently you will come across guests leaving with vegetables from the organic gardens or a jar of homemade tomato sauce. Attempt your hand at horse whispering, cooking lessons in the grass-roof kitchen, riding Friesian horses in the sky-lit modernist befouled, or just a clunk-click game of pétanque. Is it worth it—and why?
Yes. Guests experience comfortable enough to wear pajamas to breakfast, fifty-fifty to lunch. Nothing felt affected and the natural setting sparks that nostalgic glow of babyhood summers.

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