Am I being stingy or is £2,000 for 7 nights B&B a waste of money?

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Looking at going to an area of the South of France in the summer.

A small apartment/house is about £800 for a week.

A posh but small B&B is £2,000 for a week. The B&B has a fab restaurant but is very expensive (think £200 a meal).

The B&B is gorgeous but I think £2,000 is a waste of money when you can get much more for your money if you self cater.

YANBU - I get why people like B&Bs and hotels, but personally I prefer to spend less for more space, and the chance to have a kitchen and cut down on the need to eat out for every meal!

In a B&B your room will be cleaned every day and you'll have your breakfast made for you. So both of those will make a big difference to the price. Is the relative 'poshness' of the B&B and self catering accomodation comparable?

£800 for the apartment, splash out the £200 per night (or less) on a few meals and croissants etc for breakfast. Best of both worlds.

Agree - nearly £300 a night is 5* hotel territory so I think as lovely as the B&B sounds it has delusions of grandeur. I’d pay that for a posh hotel with facilities (pool/spa etc) and breakfast included, but not a B&B.

I’d go for the apartment and treat yourself by supporting the local businesses with meals out and buying in croissants etc.

The B&B sounds more like a 'restaurant with rooms' aimed to allow people to travel from a wider area to enjoy a lavish meal with wine and not have to go home afterwards, and is likely to be in keeping with the standard of the restaurant, ie posher than the apartment.

They might not expect people to stay for a week and it's not a typical price for a small B&B, which would probably be more like £100 to £150 pn for a double room tops, so around £1000 pw.

Obviously fine if you can afford it and a luxury foodie break is what you're after as they'd probably expect people to eat in the restaurant most nights, but not a typical holiday for most people.

A week in a small B&B - no, regardless of the price. For that length of time, I want space and facilities.

I would go for the B&B, have meals outside so there is no need to use the kitchen much.

For a week I prefer the space in an apartment, particularly if it's a lot cheaper than a hotel/b&b.

If it's just a few nights, I might book a hotel for the convenience as it's usually quicker to check in and handier if you want someone to book local excursions for you.

As it's France, I would pay the cleaning fee and get them to be very explicit about what they still expect you to do. After a couple of unfortunate incidents in ski apartments where I was castigated for not cleaning after paying a hefty cleaning fee, I will never rent from a French owner again ( and it's not us as we have had glowing reports from other self catering rentals around the world).

I agree with the pp who said it sounds like a restaurant with rooms - the rooms are so you can stagger upstairs after a big meal and not have to go back home, not really intended for staying in for a week.

It's whether the posh facilities and restaurant on site are worth it to you.

Personally, even if money were no object, I don't think I'd want a £200 meal every night of my holiday so I'd be going out to other places anyway and it wouldn't be worth it. As pps have said, you'd get better facilities in a hotel for that money.

I always prefer self-catering - usually eat out at a range of places but have a few meals self-catered because there is such a thing as restaurant fatigue!

I'd go with the appartment.

My experience of breakfast in France 'that is made for you' is a croissant, half a baguette, and a midget pot of jam. A jug of warm water and a tea bag of your choice.

I can make my own bed although I sometimes muck up the 'hospital corners', but if you're on holiday I think that level of slovenliness is acceptable. C'est la vie!

It’s France, food options are great, including for self catering & breakfast, so wouldn’t want to splash out on a B&B or hotel unless for a much shorter trip, eg one night to eat at the restaurant & stay.

In France, a hotel breakfast is never as good as the local bakery pastries

I’d self cater, is there a pool at the apartment? Are there any nicer houses or gites in the area that cost a bit more than £800 or is it just those two options. You can still go and eat at the nice restaurant b and b.

Where though? SoF is quite big, if you are on the coast in the stretch from say Cannes through to Menton, or around St Trop, you will be paying top dollar June/July/August.

But a B&B or hotel is so much nicer than self-catering. £2,000 sounds like a bargain to me!

It depends what you want. On a summer holiday I want to sit outside in relaxed surroundings, get drinks and snacks whenever I want, and go for a leisurely walk to nearby restaurants for dinner.

What I don't want is to be confined to one room or have to get dressed for breakfast.

Def apartment for me! I couldn't justify that much on a b&b - i would expect a 5 star hotel for that! I always think that when watching four in a bed...

I’d pick neither option and prefer a larger hotel with more facilities and go out for dinner around 4 nights and have dinner at the hotel the other nights.

100 percent this.

I just don't get the appeal of a week in one room, and eating in the same restaurant every day. As for breakfast being made for me and my cleaning done - I rarely eat more than a bit of toast or fruit and yogurt in the morning, and that hardly requires a lot of cleaning up afterwards.

I do stay in hotels - but it's either a one night stop over in a premier inn for convenience or a weekend away somewhere with a fantastic view.