Crillon le Brave in the Vaucluse named on the 2017 gold list
Luxury Vaucluse Hotel, Crillon le Brave, has been named in Condé Nast Traveller as one of the top 20 hotels in the world.
The list includes hotels from India, Australia, Italy, China, South Africa, Greece and Oman located on the coast, in cities or more wild locations.
What they say about Crillon le Brave:
"The once-desolate village where this 36-bedroom hotel has been evolving elegantly since the early 1990s is a settlement on a low flank of Mont Ventoux, yet, with a glass of Viognier and a featherlight piece of aubergine tempura in hand, you could be soaring sky-high over the plain.
As well as the expansive, half-roofed terrace bar and restaurant, where a jazz band plays and the ex-Negresco chef sends out gastronomically plated pork and mountain lamb, there's a nominally less glamorous bistro, tucked into one of the many stony nooks that are so unfakeably ancient, mossy and charming".
"A pétanque piste lies hidden just beyond the swimming pool, and a new adults-only sunbathing corner seems like a wonderfully sensible idea when families are splashing about in the afternoon. You may have the pleasure of walking along a narrow street or passing the old church to reach your room.
Big, cool and very quiet, they combine chic linens and mineral tones of grey and heather with original tomette floor tiles and whopping wardrobes. If the huge walk-in showers don't soothe your woes, a new spa in the vaulted former stables provides treatments suitable for everyone from heavily pregnant women to Tour de France emulators".
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