Two log houses with swimming pool and sauna in Essoyes, Champagne

We stayed here for 4 days recently while touring France. It's a fairly basic, but cosy, wood cabin with a hugely effective burner that heats the whole place, and a shower with PLENTY of piping hot water. There is a BBQ whose grills need a clean, and a very basic oven. There's a toaster, crockery etc. We booked towels (10EUR pp) well in advance of our stay but they'd been forgotten, so we had to go for dinner after 12 hours travelling without a shower, not great. However, once I reminded the host over VRBO chat, they left some while we're at dinner.There's a weak mobile signal here, quite nice to get away from it all but there were a couple of times I needed Internet access and had to drive out of this area to get a strong enough signal. The main issue was on the last night, we were having dinner and the host came down and said we had to leave as it was already our last day, despite our checkout being the next morning! We ended up having to show him the date on our phones to prove we had one more night paid for. It was a genuine mistake by the host but it raised serious privacy concerns that the host can just come to the cabin unannounced like that and it's the main reason I'd not stay again, despite feeling comfy in the property itself. If you have a sports car check you can pass the track, which is a farm track. I have a GT4 and it was grounding out at times. This should probably be mentioned in the advert. Overall, a nice, but not perfect, stay.

Very nice loghouse with good views, very quiet. The pool was clean and warm. Friendly hosts.

We had a great 11 days in the cabin. It was lovely to wake up with the sun coming through the trees and our children loved seeing the horses and sheep in the barn

Lovely location if you want to get away from it all. Gorgeous Log cabin. Just go careful regarding the cleaning options. We stayed for a night two weekends running. When we arrived the first weekend the place was not that clean. It didn't bother me too much, especially as we were only staying around 12 hours en route. We left it cleaner than we found it. The following week when we came back on our return journey the owners visited us and very politely asked us to leave it cleaner this time, as they felt we had left it in a mess. I explained it was not clean when we arrived. They did not accept this. I suppose all I'm saying is that if you chose the option to clean the property yourself (instead of choosing their option of 40euro for a cleaner) make sure you take photographs/inventory of the condition when you arrive and if you think that anything is below standard bring it to the owners attention straight away or you could be blamed for it after your stay. Not a disaster, just marred the stay.