Great house. I stayed there with my three teenage kids and set up was perfect for us. The house itself exceeded our expectations and was very relaxing. We'll be going back - thoroughly recommend it.

Emmanuel is a super host - enthusiastically meeting us on arrival and making sure we settled in.

The house is in the small village of Montfort - lives up to it's reputation as one of the prettiest small villages in France. Breathtaking setting and lovely for a wander around (the chateau itself is privately owned and note open to the public)

With three restaurants and a small boulangerie / patisserie on your doorstep this is well set up for not having to do any major shopping. That said Sarlat is only 10 minutes away and is great for sightseeing (and there's a supermarket on the way home to stock up).

We had other family staying nearby so we had to make sure we booked for the restaurants - well worth trying the two in the village early in your stay - you'll likely want to go back!!

We used Bise as a base for spending quite a bit of time on the river - Soleil Plage is a 2km away and has a well run canoe/kayak hire - but again book at least a day or two before as there's a big campsite down there so they get booked up. For the adventurous there's a (quite steep) path down to the river from the top of the village - we managed to get a paddle board and a kayak down there to the river. If you do go kayaking I recommend doing at least two days - one day from upstream - a little more 'nature' oriented and should be obligatory for the view you get of the Cingle de Montfort and the Chateau. The other day head downstream to take in the classic castles and cliffs 'package'.

WE LOVED OUR WEEK THERE - and Bise was the perfect base