La Perle des Montagnes - Bed and breakfast - Chambre d hôte

Tout. Noortje est aux petits soins. Chambres spacieuses et confortables, petit déjeuner 5 étoiles avec une majorité de produits fait maison. C'était parfait.

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Noortje is a star host, flexible about check-in, very helpful in providing local information and advice and an ace cook. The breakfast, complete with home-baked lembas (elf-bread!), fresh, homemade and local cheeses, fruit and an ever-changing richness of home made jams and preserves. We never managed an early start. The room was very comfortable with a great shower and a good bed, with a bonus view from the verandah over Canigou. Kitchen well-equipped, next to the dining room. Vernet itself is a lovely location, with good local shopping and an excellent restaurant - Le Bistro - as well as a series of short and long local walks up and down the mountains.

Le lieu, le calme, la montagne,

J'ai tout apprécié

The owner, Noortje, is a lovely lady. We were the only guests at the time so had the use of the shared kitchen facilities to ourselves. The eggs for breakfast were from the owners' own chickens. There is a coffee machine providing unlimited excellent freshly ground coffee. The location of the B&B is handy for visiting the charming walled town of Villefranche-de-Conflent and for the Little Yellow Train station. It has a lovely view of Mount Canigou.

This would be a great place to stay if you are fit and into walking and hiking (which we are not) and enjoy the company of other guests. Unfortunately we were misled by the description of the facilities given in the Booking.com listing, and were expecting several facilities including restaurants on site (rather than just around the location of the B&B). We have some mobility issues and also do not like driving in the dark, so were dismayed to be told on arrival that the nearest place to get something to eat in the evening was a 15 minute walk away. Fortunately we were able to rush out to a supermarket that was handily not too far away and made it back before it was completely dark, and heated up a pizza in the shared kitchen/dining area. If there were other guests staying, we would have hated having to work around using the kitchen facilities with others. The kitchen has no microwave so that limited the choice of things we could cook easily. We thought the breakfast hours were rather rigid - it had to be finished by 0930 which was too early for us as were trying to have a relaxing holiday - but Noortje did kindly leave us some breakfast items to eat when we were ready.