Apartment gite right in the heart of Carcassonne
The apartment is on the first floor of a listed building, overlooking the historic Place Carnot in the the lower town, known as the Bastide St. Louis, in Carcassonne. The property is accessed up a short traditional French tiled flight of stairs with a beautiful curved iron balustrade.
The gite sleeps 4 in 2 en-suite double bedrooms.
The entrance hall has a hall cupboard and mirror. Inside the cupboard you will find a bag with tapestry and wools for making a tapestry cushion that will eventually go in the sitting room and guests are invited to do some stitching if they wish. There is also a hair drier and small first aid kit.
Bedroom 1 has an en suite bathroom also containing a washing machine;
co-ordinating blue and cream toile de Jouy curtains and bed-linen; Louis
Philippe bed and French style furniture; alarm clock beside bed. There
is a small utility room off the bathroom where the water-heater is housed.
There is hanging and shelf space there. Both bedroom and bathroom are
double glazed with traditional shutters outside and have heaters for use
in the winter.
Bedroom 2 has an en suite shower room. Co-ordinating rose curtains and bed-linen; bateau-lit and matching furniture; alarm clock beside bed. The bedroom is double glazed with traditional shutters outside. Heater for use in the winter.
Both bedrooms are equipped with fluffy white towels, bath sheet size, and both have luxurious cream sheepskin rugs.
The WC is in a separate room and has a wooden seat.
Bed 1
Bed 2
The kitchen / diner
The sitting room
The view of Place Carnot
The sitting room overlooks Place Carnot with traditional windows and shutters and French-style ceiling to floor voile curtains; two smart and very comfortable sofa beds (which do not look like sofa beds and which can be used as one double, for a couple, or two singles) and two Versailles chairs, central chandelier and pretty enamelled wall lights, a standard lamp, nest of marble top tables plus additional occasional table, coffee table with selection of hard-back books and folder with sightseeing information, elegant corner cabinet, large mirror on back wall and smaller mirror between windows, bookcase with large selection of books and games, CD/tape player/radio and large selection of CDs, Turkish rug, well-equipped sewing box. Heater for use in winter. The apartment is amply supplied with local guide books, maps and print-outs from useful web sites; also there's a small French dictionary and phrase book.
Shops and facilities of all kinds can be found within a few moments' walk of the apartment. There is a bustling market selling fantastic fresh food in the Place Carnot, literally right outside, three days a week.
The condo is seven minutes by taxi from Carcassonne airport, which is served by frequent RyanAir flights from London Stansted. It is also only an hour by train from Toulouse, which is served from several UK airports by both regular and no frills airlines. The apartment is a few minutes walk from Carcassonne station.
