Two log houses with swimming pool and sauna in Essoyes, Champagne

We stayed here for 4 days recently while touring France. It's a fairly basic, but cosy, wood cabin with a hugely effective burner that heats the whole place, and a shower with PLENTY of piping hot water. There is a BBQ whose grills need a clean, and a very basic oven. There's a toaster, crockery etc. We booked towels (10EUR pp) well in advance of our stay but they'd been forgotten, so we had to go for dinner after 12 hours travelling without a shower, not great. However, once I reminded the host over VRBO chat, they left some while we're at dinner.There's a weak mobile signal here, quite nice to get away from it all but there were a couple of times I needed Internet access and had to drive out of this area to get a strong enough signal. The main issue was on the last night, we were having dinner and the host came down and said we had to leave as it was already our last day, despite our checkout being the next morning! We ended up having to show him the date on our phones to prove we had one more night paid for. It was a genuine mistake by the host but it raised serious privacy concerns that the host can just come to the cabin unannounced like that and it's the main reason I'd not stay again, despite feeling comfy in the property itself. If you have a sports car check you can pass the track, which is a farm track. I have a GT4 and it was grounding out at times. This should probably be mentioned in the advert. Overall, a nice, but not perfect, stay.

Very nice loghouse with good views, very quiet. The pool was clean and warm. Friendly hosts.

We had a great 11 days in the cabin. It was lovely to wake up with the sun coming through the trees and our children loved seeing the horses and sheep in the barn

Fabulous log cabins and lovely peaceful location if you want to get away from it all. Just go careful regarding the cleaning options. We stayed for one night en route elsewhere and the following weekend 2 nights on our way back to England. On our arrival the 1st time the place was not that clean. It didn't bother us too much, especially as we were only staying around 12 hours, we just cleaned up a bit before we left. We left it cleaner than we found it. On our 2nd stay the owners paid us a visit and very politely asked us to clean this time as last time we'd left it in a mess. I explained it was a mess when we arrived and we certainly left it cleaner than when we arrived. They did not accept this. Not a complete disaster but it marred the stay for me and left a bad taste in my mouth. I suppose all I'm saying is that if you choose the option to clean yourself, instead of paying their cleaner 40 euros, you need to do an inventory on arrival and make sure you go to the owners if it is not clean. Or take photographs when you arrive to prove how you found it/left it.