Lets say you have a hankering for a few days of sun and swimming in the sea but would just as soon avoid the hullabaloo and most likely crippling expense of the big seaside palaces. It's hard to find a good little hotel in the away from the sea streets, most of them are designed to offer room and board to French families who are looking for cheap vacations and what is offered is just that. So perhaps here is your solution: Valbonne is a little town about eight miles inland from Cannes, you can be at the beach (there are quite a few nice ones which sell day tickets) in ten minutes. The chateau, a modernized seventeenth century sructure is a mile or so out of town, in a wood and on the side of an eighteen hole golf course. (I'm not a golfer so I can't comment on the quality of the play, neither on the greens fee, which at over a hundred dollars strikes me as high). The rooms are nicely decorated and extremely quiet in the night, something that can't be guaranteed on the Corniche in Cannes no matter how much you pay. There's a very nice outdoor pool, in good weather one dines on a terrace that overlooks the ninth hole. You can get a double for around $150 for the night, if you stay three nights the forth is free and, in all but July and August, if you can book two months ahead of time you get a 40% reduction.
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