Le Quartier Francais is such a wonderful boutique hotel. It is located in the small town of Franschhoek off the main street. It is a quiet, established 21 room hotel. Even though the hotel is approximately 30 years old, it is completely modern and the bedrooms and bathrooms look new. The rooms range from their standard Auberge Rooms, to the Grande Rooms with oversized chairs and huge windows. Next, is our room which is the Petite Garden Suite with a private garden. The final two rooms are the Auberge Suites wth a private pool and a loft for the children and finally the Four Quarters rooms which are 4 rooms surrounding a private courtyard and pool. All of the beds have inviting bed linens, wood burning fireplaces and flat screen tvs. Most of the spacious bathrooms have dual sinks and seperate showers and tubs. Most of the rooms surround the hotel's inviting pool with have large chaise lounges around the pool. The hotel provides complementary transportation to many of the restaurants and places around Franschhoek. This is sophisticated elegance - casual style. 
The hotel has 2 restaurants. The Common Room is their casual restaurant that also serves daily breakfast which if you are MY client...is a Virtuoso amenity. The second restaurant is their world reknown, The Tasting Room which I will write about in a few days. Last night, we were exhasted so we decided to eat in The Common Room. Dinner is served "tapas style" with the exception of chicken or steak served a la carte. We enjoyed 2 different salads and Jeff had a short rib pizzette which was so good and I had probably one of the best wild mushroom risottos that I've ever eaten. Hats off to The Common Room.
There is one all purpose spa room which offers various kinds of facials, body treatments and manicures. It is very peaceful and the therapists were quite good.
To orient yourselves...Franschhoeck is one half hour away from Stollenbosch and Stollenbosch is 45 minutes away from Cape Town. My next blogs will be more about the food and wine...better than I ever expected!
Stay tuned!!
Mari
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