Imagine spending Christmas and New Year in your private fully catered Chateau in the Loire Valley for a week or two. Picture you and your family sipping egg-nog in front of an enormous roaring open fire gazing at a 4 metre Christmas tree flashing decked with decorations and a mass of presents wrapped underneath.

Chateau Rental for Christmas and New Year

Enjoy the Christmas and New Year market in Blois – sample local cheeses, local wine, roasted chestnuts, and buy even more Christmas decorations and last minute presents and stocking fillers.

Embrase a French tradition - Slurp oysters and champagne on Christmas Eve. Watch the Queen's speech in front of our large plasma television sipping sparkling Vouvray on Christmas Day.

Take your family ice-skating in the centre of Blois in front of the Chateau with no huge crowds and no need to book.

Christmas Castle

Over the Christmas and New Year holiday cuddle up under our fur throws and read that best-seller you have been promising to finish for half a year or work your way through your favourite movies or TV series from our DVD collection played in the privacy of your own suite or on the huge high definition plasma in our TV salon in front of the roaring fire. You do not have to miss any of the festive sports on offer as we have the very best SKY sports package available.

Play our large collection of board games, your choice from our themed murder mysteries, darts, indoor badminton, indoor ping pong. Challenge your kids to a game of twister. Be entertained by Alex our resident magician.

New Year Castle

During your Christmas and New Year holiday you can enjoy whatever music you want to listen to on our Bose stereo system selected on your Ipod or i-tunes on a laptop and piped through a series of speakers on the ground floor.

Hammer out some Christmas carols on our grand piano in the great hall. Bring your musical instruments and have your very own Christmas / New Year concert.

Enjoy our sumptuous catering with our special Chateau du Guerinet breakfasts and five course French dinners on four evenings (five over New Year) and the traditional Christmas dinner served at lunch on Christmas Day.

Wine flows freely. Alka-seltzas lie waiting in every bedside table.

Little ones can eat dinner earlier and be settled in bed or watching DVDs, allowing you to enjoy your dinner in peace with your adult guests. They can decorate their own gingerbread house with sweets, make their own pizzas and eat home-made wholesome nutritious child-friendly food.

Walk off that Christmas lunch and festive celebrations through our forest, or try and cheat by sweating out those calories in our infra-red sauna. Leisurely visit the historic chateaux and avoid any tourist rush (most are open all year except on Christmas Day).

You can attend Christmas mass at our local village church four minutes away or in one of three large cathedrals in Blois.

See in the New Year at Chateau du Guerinet with our firework spectacle (assuming private fireworks without a licence have not been banned by next Christmas/New Year).

Come and spoil yourself this festive season. Enjoy our chateau hospitality – you will not want to leave.

“We slept on clouds and feasted like kings” .......... Frank and Sharon Hall


Christmas Week 2008 - available

New Year Week 2008 - booked already

Christmas Week 2009 - available

New Year Week 2009 - available