Les Jardins de la Livree Bed and Breakfast Villeneuve-les-Avignon

Les Jardins de la Livree is a wonderful place to stay in the vicinity of Avignon if one has access to a car as the bus connection to Villeneuve-les-Avignon terminates early. They've got plenty of secure parking spaces despite being located in a maze of narrow country roads.

But perhaps therein lies some of the magic of this place. A tall gate opens to reveal a rather spacious building that's segmented into rentable apartments, a restaurant with a patio, a live-in portion occupied by the owners, and a huge kitchen. Driving through the second gate that divides this building in two reveals the said patio, a sizable garden, along with a respectable pool, some parking space, a chicken range, and a huge XV century wall.

Everything about this place is outright pleasant. The place is incredibly well-maintained and quiet. Breakfast is good and service is stellar, with the owners always ready to jump in and lend a helping hand. Our room was not too big and it suffered from some shortcomings - shower that was prone to flooding the bathroom, lack of air conditioning (must be a serious issue mid-summer) - but was overall once again, cozy and tidy.

We were never rushed towards anything at this place - free to park anywhere, free to stay at the pool, given the keys for the main gate to come back whenever we pleased, and even given enough coffee to satiate our seemingly insatiable and separate body cavities into which coffee goes.

Location was pristine. From the gate to the main square it was less than a minute on foot. Driving from the main highways into this town was also not a problem, though navigating the narrow streets and the series of roundabouts was a lot easier thanks to a GPS with French maps.

We would recommend this place happily and easily to just about anyone. For 70/E a night for a double room it's definitely not economy, but the ambience is well worth paying that compared to the nearby selection of similarly priced places.