Hotel · Castelnau-de-Montmiral · 10 km from Gaillac
Hôtel des Consuls
Seventeen rooms in a medieval townhouse on the Place des Arcades in Castelnau-de-Montmiral. A pool in the courtyard, views over the Vère valley and the Gaillac vineyard.
The Hôtel des Consuls is the building you notice first when you reach the Place des Arcades in Castelnau-de-Montmiral. A blond-stone façade pierced by pointed arches, three floors, and the bearing of a townhouse that lodged the bastide’s magistrates for centuries. The current owners took it over in 2009, after thirty years in hospitality, with the idea of an independent hotel that does not feel like a chain.
Seventeen rooms, spread across three tiers. The “Classic” rooms are simple and clean; the “Comfort” rooms add exposed stone walls, beams and sometimes a period fireplace; the “Superior” rooms open onto the Vère valley or the square. The building has a lift — rare in a medieval structure — and a wheelchair-accessible room.
The surprise is the pool. It sits in the inner courtyard, between stone walls and wrought-iron balconies. Not large, not heated, but perfectly unexpected in a hilltop village. Breakfast, served as a buffet with local produce, is taken in the vaulted room or on the terrace overlooking the bastide’s rooftops and the vines below.
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17 rooms (classic from €71, comfort from €107, superior from €127) · Buffet breakfast included · No restaurant (good tables under the arcades next door) · Unheated pool · Shaded terrace · Free private parking · Lift · Wheelchair access · Pets welcome · Wi-Fi · Soft-drinks bar.
