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Yes. The Les Échasses wellness area includes a dry wooden sauna and a wood-fired Nordic bath, designed for two people at a time, as well as massages by appointment. It…
Yes. Les Échasses has a large outdoor swimming pool set among the vegetation, in the heart of the 4-hectare estate in Saubion. It complements the wellness area, which includes a…
Yes. The calm of the estate, the Landes forest and the seclusion of the Modges around the pond make for a real break from everyday life, with the sauna, Nordic…
Les Échasses lets you combine, about 15 minutes from Hossegor, unusual wooden accommodation, an outdoor pool, a sauna, a wood-fired Nordic bath and massages by appointment. A weekend starts from…
Yes. Le Comptoir also welcomes outside guests, and you only need to book by the day before at the latest. Booking is strongly recommended, as the dining room has a…
Le Comptoir is the restaurant at Les Échasses, located on the estate in Saubion. It serves fresh, local, seasonal cooking inspired by produce from the estate's permaculture vegetable garden and…
Dinner is served at 8 pm at Le Comptoir and the kitchen closes at 10:30 pm. Booking is required by the day before at the latest, for staying guests and…
Yes. The Le Comptoir cellar includes organic and natural wines, chosen to go with local, seasonal cooking. Petit Futé also mentions a restaurant with a wine cellar among the strengths…
Le Comptoir serves home-made, local, seasonal cooking made with fresh produce. Part of the vegetables, herbs and fruit comes straight from the permaculture vegetable garden and orchard at Les Échasses…
Les Échasses is an eco-lodge because its untreated timber-frame accommodations are built on stilts, in a minimal and reversible way, within the wetland ecosystem and Landes forest, with a small…
Breakfast at Les Échasses features home-made and local products: bread, jams, honey, fresh fruit juice and sweet and savoury items according to the season, with produce from the permaculture vegetable…
Les Échasses was designed by Basque architect Patrick Arotcharen, with landscape architect Marti Franch and designer Jean-Louis Iratzoki. In 2016 the project won second prize in the Prix national de…
Yes. The estate has a permaculture vegetable garden, an orchard and beehives, and part of their production ends up at breakfast and in the restaurant Le Comptoir, depending on the…
The accommodations at Les Échasses have an untreated timber frame, set on stilts to limit the impact on the wetland soil. The raw wood gives the Modges a simple, contemporary…
Les Échasses is at 701 route des Bruyères, 40230 Saubion, in the southern Landes (GPS coordinates 43.67873, -1.349132). The estate is about 15 minutes by car from Hossegor, and close…
An eco-lodge like Les Échasses replaces corridors and large capacity with independent timber accommodations, blended into the landscape and set in privacy around a pond. It adds a concrete environmental…
Yes. Les Échasses is about 15 minutes by car from Hossegor and the beaches of the Landes coast. A cycle path runs past the estate and leads directly to the…
Yes. Based in the southern Landes, Les Échasses lets you reach Bayonne and Biarritz by car for a day trip, as well as other destinations in the French and Spanish…
By train, the stations at Dax and Bayonne are both about 40 minutes by car from Les Échasses. By air, Biarritz Pays Basque airport is the closest; Bordeaux is another…
Yes. The Landes coast, with the Hossegor and Seignosse surf spots, is about fifteen minutes by car, or around ten kilometres by bike to Seignosse Océan. Les Échasses is a…
