Wooden Cottage – Unwind in the Pays d'Othe

🤎Craving nature and tranquility? Discover our wooden house, built by us in the heart of the Pays d'Othe. In cold weather, rediscover the pleasure of arriving at a cozy cottage with the wood-burning stove lit. 🔥 📍 An ideal location between Champagne and Burgundy: • Paris 1.5 hours away • motorway 10 min away • Troyes 30 km • Sens 30 km • Chablis and Auxerre 50 km 🥐 Shops nearby: • Bakery 600 m away • Supermarkets and local market 4 km away. The space 👩🏻‍🌾 ABOUT US: 🏡 Welcome to our 75 m² single-story wooden cottage. A truly independent lodge, designed and built entirely inside and out by Jérémy. 🤎 🏡 A timber-frame house, naturally comfortable: Built of wood with particularly effective insulation, our house retains heat very well in winter and stays cool in summer, provided it is used properly to avoid the loss of heat and coolness in winter. 🌟 Rated 4 stars (A rated vacation rental is an official classification that guarantees a level of comfort and amenities meeting specific criteria, allowing you to make the most of your stay) where you can enjoy your own space, with complete autonomy, just like at home. 💚 We have designed this simple, warm and comfortable place to allow you to slow down, enjoy nature and disconnect from everyday life, with respect for fine human values. 🤎 Behind the screen, it's me, Julie, who takes care of everything. Airbnb is a platform available to both guests and owners. The fees you pay go directly to Airbnb, not to the hosts. The platform makes bookings easier, but the accommodation remains with us, with our rules, our work and our responsibilities. 😊 🤎 Here, kindness and respect are paramount. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💰: The price of your stay includes the costs associated with running the cottage (mortgage, internet, electricity, taxes, etc.) and renting it. 🧺: We do not charge a cleaning fee. The requests mentioned below are simply a matter of good manners and respect for the premises and others. These are essential human values that, for us, should be the basis of community life. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏡 YOUR PRIVATE SPACE You have a completely independent house, with: 🌳 A private and fully enclosed property of 1,400 m² (15,070 sq ft) 🔑 A separate gate that locks ☀️ Garden furniture and deckchairs 🍗 A barbecue (charcoal not included) 🌌 Very little light pollution, so you can enjoy the starry sky So you'll feel completely at home during your stay. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏠 THE SPACE 👨‍👩‍👧 Maximum capacity: 3 people • 3 adults • 2 adults + 1 child • 2 adults + 1 baby 🛏️ SLEEPING ARRANGEMENTS • Bedroom with 160 × 200 cm bed • Two single beds 90 × 190 cm, configurable according to your needs They can be used separately or arranged for sleeping with a child. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🧺 LINEN IS PROVIDED Everything is ready for your arrival: ✔️ Beds made ✔️ Bed linen ✔️ Bath linen ✔️ Dishtowels ✔️ Blanket Mattress protectors are systematically changed and disinfected between each stay. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔑 SELF-CHECK-IN – KEYBOX Self check-in is possible using a key box, especially if you plan to arrive late or leave early in the morning. This arrangement allows for greater flexibility in planning your stay. However, we would like to be able to verify who is staying in our accommodations. This is why we want to see you at least once, whether upon your arrival, at check-out, or during your stay. ————————————— 🧼 CLEANLINESS & HOUSEKEEPING The cottage is thoroughly cleaned and disinfected after each stay, by me, Julie. We do not charge any additional cleaning fees. 👉 No need to do a thorough clean: Just leave the cottage as you would like to find it. We simply ask that you leave the accommodation in a clean and pleasant condition: 🧹 A quick sweep with a broom or vacuum to remove crumbs, hair, etc. 🍽️ Clean kitchen and dishes put away 🚽 Clean toilet 🧽 Table cleaned 🐕 🐈… CLEANING RELATED TO PETS: You must take care not to leave any pet hair anywhere in the cottage and make sure that no odors linger after your stay in the cottage. More and more properties are refusing pets. Please comply with these essential guidelines so that we can continue to accept them. Your pet may get on the sofa, provided you use a specific pet cover that you bring with you. Please do not use the linens provided in the vacation rental (throws, blankets, etc.) to protect the sofas. We have a dog ourselves, and we know full well that hair can get everywhere and be very difficult to remove, even after thorough cleaning. If a throw or protective cover from the cottage becomes heavily covered with hair and can no longer be properly cleaned, a fee may be charged to replace it with a new one. We must also think of the people who stay after you and who do not have a pet. They should not have to contend with hair left behind from a previous stay. So please provide suitable protection for your pet and respect the linens provided. Microfiber cloths are available for everyday minor messes. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🍳 EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO COOK The kitchen is fully equipped. You'll find, in particular: 🧽 Washable sponge 🧴 Washing-up liquid 🧻 Paper towels 🧼 Hand soap in the kitchen and bathroom 🧹 Microfiber cloths 🧂 Salt, pepper, oil, vinegar and basic spices ☕ Coffee, tea, herbal teas and sugar for stays of 1–2 nights. (And even for longer stays, I always leave you a little bit, in case you forgot yours or just want to enjoy a cup of coffee before going shopping.) 🍳 Baking paper/parchment paper 🥡 Saran wrap 🧴 Cleaning products 🧻 TOILET PAPER: For stays of 1 to 2 nights, the toilet paper needed for your stay is provided. For longer stays, toilet paper is always provided for your arrival, so you can settle in comfortably. For the rest of your stay, please plan to bring your own toilet paper. 🗑️ GARBAGE BAGS 🧼 DISHWASHER TABLETS: For stays of less than one week and up to one week, we provide 1 dishwasher tab per day. For stays of 2 weeks, please bring your own dishwasher tablets for the duration of the stay. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚰 WATER & INTERNET 💧 The tap water is potable. 🛜 Fiber internet available. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👕 DRYING YOUR LAUNDRY NATURALLY A clothes rack is available both indoors and outdoors. Here, there's no need for a dryer! 😊 With the circulating air, the sun and the natural warmth of the house, laundry usually dries quickly, even on cooler days. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👶 FOR BABIES We provide: 🛁 Baby bathtub 🛏️ Pack 'n play/Travel crib 🪑 High chair ⚠️ Baby bed linens are not provided. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌡️ A COMFORTABLE HOUSE ALL YEAR ROUND The house has very good insulation. ❄️ IN WINTER It retains heat very well. Please just don't leave doors open unnecessarily. 🌞 IN SUMMER It stays naturally cool. During very hot weather, we recommend closing the shutters on the side exposed to the sun and keeping doors and windows closed during the hottest hours in order to keep the interior cool. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🪵 THE WOOD STOVE The stove provides gentle, pleasant warmth during cold periods. It is generally used from fall to spring, when the temperatures require it. 🪵 The firewood is provided and stored in the alcove provided for this purpose, at the back of the house. We provide the amount of wood needed for a day of heating. Please use it sensibly. To start the fire, you will find: 🔥 Kindling 🔥 Firelighters 🔥 Matches As the house is very well insulated, the temperature rises quickly. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🍗 GRILL A barbecue is available in the shed at the back of the gîte. ⚠️ Charcoal and firelighters are not provided. You can easily buy them nearby, including at Le Beau Panier or Brico Marché in Aix-Villemaur-Pâlis, about 5 km away. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡️ ELECTRICITY Electricity is included up to a flat rate corresponding to reasonable average consumption: ☀️ 280 kWh during the summer ❄️ 470 kWh in winter This allowance is based on the average consumption recorded during stays in the past two years. If the meter reading shows that this amount has been exceeded, the difference may be charged at a rate of €0.21/kWh. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌿 A LITTLE NATURE AROUND YOU In the summer, we maintain the outdoor areas while trying to preserve biodiversity as much as possible. 🌱 We come to mow about once a week or every two weeks, depending on how fast the grass is growing. We always notify you by message before we come. The areas used by guests are maintained regularly. For other areas, less frequent mowing helps preserve biodiversity. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎥 OUTDOOR CAMERA A surveillance camera is installed outside the Cottage, pointing exclusively toward the parking area. Its purpose is to ensure the safety of the gite and the parked vehicles, especially during the night and when the property is unoccupied. ⚠️ It does not record the inside of the vacation rental or the outdoor areas reserved exclusively for guests. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛒 SHOPS NEARBY About 5 km away, in Aix-Villemaur-Pâlis, you will find the essentials: 🛒 Supermarket 🥩 Butcher 🥖 Bakeries 💊 Pharmacy 🏪 Shops and local services 🥖 N'OTHE FARINE – VILLAGE BAKERY 📅 Monday, Wednesday and Saturday ⏰ 7:30am – 12:30pm ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🍅 AIX-EN-OTHE MARKET 📅 Wednesday and Saturday ⏰ 8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. 📍 Halle, Place de l'Hôtel de Ville Depending on the day, you can find: 🥕 Fruit and vegetables 🧀 Cheeses 🥩 Charcuterie 🥖 Bread 🌸 Flowers 🧺 Local and regional products ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📒 YOUR WELCOME BOOKLET A welcome booklet is available in the cottage. There you will find, in particular: 🗺️ Tourist information 🥖 Convenience stores 🍽️ Our local tips 🍅 Local markets 🥾 Ideas for walks 📍 Information about Aube and Yonne 📚 A Green Guide to Champagne-Ardenne and Burgundy is also available in the cottage. Brochures from tourist offices and a Green Guide to Champagne-Ardenne and Burgundy are also available. 💻 TO PREPARE FOR YOUR STAY Here are some useful websites to consult before or during your stay: 🌐 Aube Champagne Tourisme 🌐 Chaource Othe Armance Tourism 🌐 Bourgogne Tourisme 🚆 From Sens, you can get to Paris in about 1 hour by train, which can be a convenient way to visit the capital while enjoying the calmness of the countryside. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔋🚘 ELECTRIC CHARGING STATIONS Several charging stations are available at approximately 4 km distance: ⚡ SDE Aube – Aix-en-Othe ⚡ SDEA 10 – Vulaines ⚡ SDE Aube – Bérulle ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⛽️ TO FILL UP For your information, nearby petrol stations include: ⛽ Total – Vulaines ⛽ Intermarché – Aix-en-Othe