Hotel Review: Novotel Amboise – Family-Friendly with Pool

Novotel Amboise Swimming pool

The Novotel Amboise is a comfortable mid-scale four-star hotel with swimming pool and rooms sleeping up to four. The Novotel Amboise is a modern hotel in the southern residential suburbs of Amboise with beautiful views of the chateau. The comfortable bedrooms with air-conditioning can sleep families of up to four. The hotel has a pool, … Read more

Top Sights and Châteaux in the Loire Valley

Travel to Orleans, Tours, Blois, & Amboise, France

Renaissance chateaux are to many the best sights and main attractions of the French Loire Valley. Historic cities such as Orleans, Tours, Blois, and Amboise are worth seeing too.

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photo credit: Joe Shlabotnik

The historic towns and châteaux of the Loire Valley are popular sightseeing destinations for travelers to France. The Loire Valley played host to French kings and noblemen during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries when the court stayed at various palaces along the Loire. Paris and Versailles only became the centers of political power in France from the end of the sixteenth century onwards.

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