In two sentences
Le Puits d'Angle, a bed & breakfast in Thibivillers (Oise) one hour from Paris, has a heated indoor pool and a hammam open all year to its guests, a library with an open fire and a table d'hôtes in the evening. Rates do not change in winter: €100 to €130 a night for two with breakfast, and €39 per person for dinner with wine.
Why it works in winter
- A pool at 28 °C, all year
- Under the old timber roof, with wide glass doors onto the garden. Reserved for the guests of the five rooms, with the hammam next door.
- The fire is lit
- In winter, breakfast is served in front of the fireplace in the library — the room where everyone ends up reading, playing board games and dining.
- Dinner on site
- Midweek and off-season, restaurants nearby are few and close early. The table d'hôtes solves it: a winter menu might be pumpkin soup, veal blanquette, Neufchâtel from the farm and an apple tart — €39 with wine, booked 24 hours ahead.
- A bath, too
- Reinette and Pink Lady have a bathtub; every room has individual heating.
- The same price as summer
- Rates are the same all year, breakfast always included.
A winter weekend
Friday evening
Check-in from 3.30 pm until 10 pm. Hammam, a swim, dinner by the fire.
Saturday
Breakfast by the fire. If the sky clears: Beauvais and the tallest Gothic choir in the world (30 min), or the château of Chantilly (50 min). If not: the pool, the library, a board game, and the table d'hôtes again.
Sunday
Gisors market on Sunday morning (15 min), a last swim, check-out by 11.30 am.
Good to know in winter
- Getting to the pool
- It is reached through the garden, two minutes from your room. Bring a bathrobe and flip-flops: there is no changing room.
- Giverny
- Monet's gardens are open April to October; in winter, head for Beauvais, Chantilly or Gerberoy instead.
- Two nights for two
- From €200 (Judeline) to €260 (Reinette, Royal Gala, Chanteclerc), breakfasts included.
- Arriving late
- Check-in until 10 pm; tell us your arrival time.
The house is open all year.
