Chateau du Mont Joly

A lovely homely chateau, which has about 7 bedrooms and is owned and run by the chef and his wife. They have a great team working with them who are always helpful. English is spoken by all. A great place to break the drive when heading south from Calais. There is a nice garden with a good size swimming pool. There are also some goats at the bottom of the garden - fenced in. The restaurant is excellent, a one star Michelin with a great wine selection, breakfast on the patio before a further drive is relaxing.

This is a fine dining destination with rooms five in all We decided to stay overnight on our return trip from Troys to Lausanne to have another fine dining opportunity but dinner rather than lunch The chateau is just outside Dole in a tranquil setting with beautiful grounds with a terrace overlooking the swimming pool. We booked a standard room overlooking the grounds and the swimming pool which met our requirements - we appreciated the bedside focus lamps. It was a little surprising that there was only one miniscule shower gel ,no shampoo,for two persons The breakfast was an additional cost €15 each.There were aspects of the breakfast which were puzzling.The fruit dish was pineapple pieces drowned in sweet pineapple juice - we found that bizarre when we are in season of red berries an apricots.We were also surprisingly given rich cakes as well as standard french breakfast pain au chocolate croissant and baguette.The orange juice was obviously from a container but certainly not Andros at least I do not consider this a healthy breakfast.There are other options low sugar cereal eggs ham and cheese.It does not reflect that you are staying in a fine dining restaurant