Five independent stone houses on one private estate in the Dordogne — for family reunions, weddings, milestone birthdays, and the kind of weeks thirty people need one place to gather.
We started in 2019. We wanted a place in France where thirty people could stay together for a week — where families had privacy but still gathered, where the catering wasn't locked behind a contract we had to accept sight unseen, and where the evenings could go on as long as they wanted.
We looked at châteaux that couldn't sleep everyone. Gîtes de groupe that felt like summer camp with a wine list. Villas where half the guests had to check into a hotel in the next village. None of them worked.
We bought Manoir du Suquet — a 19th-century Périgord estate with five independent stone houses, seventeen bedrooms, a pool, a tennis court, and a long outdoor table that seats more than you'd think — and spent the next years turning it into the place we'd wanted to find.
Up to forty guests in one place. No taxis between villages, no late-night coordination, no splitting the group across three gîtes ten minutes apart. One estate, one WhatsApp thread, one week.
Each house has its own kitchen and living space. The early risers make breakfast in their house; the late sleepers make theirs. You gather in the courtyard or at the long dinner table when you want. You disperse when you want.
No imposed catering. Self-cater, bring in a local chef, use a traiteur of your choice, drive thirty minutes for wine direct from the Bergerac producers. You control the biggest line in the budget.
We know the area well. Trusted chefs, caterers, wine merchants, florists, musicians, celebrants. We can put you in touch with any of them — or stay out of the way entirely. Your choice.
Most group properties give you one headline number. We'd rather give you the real breakdown, because the planner doing the spreadsheet needs to know who's in a proper bedroom and who's in overflow.
Every couple, every pair of siblings, every set of grandparents gets a real bedroom with a door. The sofa beds are extras — for teenagers, plus-ones, the cousins doubling up.
Bardou sits in the Périgord Pourpre, on the south side of the Dordogne valley. Close to Bergerac for flights and trains, close to the wine country for tastings, close to Sarlat and Monpazier for the full Périgord weekend.
For group enquiries — reservations@lesuquet.co