Stay in a medieval town or in tiny stone villages

Your choice of a wide range of gites and apartments for rent throughout the French Pyrenees

Great walking, hiking, and summer activities and adventures on your doorstep

Whether you’re looking for a modern self-catering apartment or a charming, characterful gite, we can help find the ideal place for you to stay.

As long time residents of Luc St Sauveur in the French Pyrenees ourselves, we have come to know its gite and apartment owners well. We don’t have a set list of rental properties but instead we pride ourselves on finding what you want and then matching your requests to the best places available, either in the town or in the small villages higher up in the mountains..

For hotels and B&Bs, please visit our Pyrenees hotels and B&B accommodation page. For skiing accommodation, please view our downhill/family skiing pages, which offer information on apartments and hotels in Barèges La Mongie and St Lary Soulan. Many of the gites below are also open during winter months, but go quickly, so book early!!

Pyrenees Self Catering Accommodation

People want very different things from Pyrenees holiday accommodation. For some, views are everything. For others it’s silence, or having somewhere to eat outdoors. Some want traditional gites, others an easy to manage modern flat. What is ‘characterful’ to one person may look ‘tumbledown’ to another. Price matters a lot to many. We do our best to make sure you get accommodation that’s just right for you.

That’s why we don’t just let out the same accommodation each week. We have some places that are always popular, of course, but in general we work ‘on demand’ with a large number of local gite and apartment owners who we have come to know well.

In general, self catering property in the Pyrenees reflects the nature of the area and people. These are traditional Pyrenean communities and there isn’t really a concept of ‘country cottages’ as there is in the UK. Instead they let out the places they own, and may well have owned for generations. Flats and gites in the Pyrennees are usually simple. You are more likely to find wood or lino floors than carpet and socialising tends to be done round the heart of the home – the dinner table – rather than in soft armchairs round a coffee table.

The properties are always clean and contain everything you need. Many have great character, thick stone walls and huge old fireplaces, but they are traditional and simple in their furnishings rather than deluxe or plush. They are also quite individual. .

In all we have access to about two hundred Pyrenees flats and gites. Below is just a small selection. Email Wendy or Sandra for more details and prices

The Sazos Grange
This lovely old converted wood and stone barn stands all alone above the Vallée de Barèges. It has huge views both down over the valley and up into valley leading to Gavarnie. The property has two bedrooms and sleeps six. It has its own garden and two patio areas with barbecue. Great for privacy and views.
Price Range: £450 - £650 pw

Artist’s House
This little old house stands on a side road on the way out of town. It has two double bedrooms and a pleasant raised patio area at the back of the house facing onto the mountains. It’s near the swimming pool and only five minutes walk from the old town centre.
Price Range: £300 - £600 pw

Fanou’s House
This is a newly built small house, very simply furnished but provides all you need as a holiday base. It is in a quiet side street and has a small patio. There are three bedrooms and the house can sleep six people.
Price Range: £325 - £675 pw

Piero's Place
These lovely old stables have been converted into two apartments; one for 6/8 and the other for 2/3. The larger apartment has a long balcony with good views and access to a small garden. The smaller apartment has its own patio. It’s a popular property because, although it’s seconds from the old town centre, it’s tucked away behind a gate and down a little passageway, making it very quiet and private. The smaller apartment has a separate bedroom, separate shower room, separate WC and pleasant open plan kitchen diner. The larger apartment has two closed off bedrooms and a number of tucked away mezzanine sleeping spaces. Children love them!
Price Range: £525 - £595 depending and £625 - £695 pw

The Courtyard
If you like traditional properties then this is a good choice. It seems not to have changed for centuries! It is a very private part of a huge old house opposite the 12th Century church in Luz. It has beams, a wide wooden staircase, a wooden balcony and two enormous rooms, one for sleeping, with en suite WC/shower room, and the other for living and eating. The rooms are so big they stretch from one street to another! It also has its own private walled garden. A great property for two to four people (two double beds in the bedroom) who like character…even if a bit quirky.
Price Range: £350 - £550 depending on season

Luz St Sauveur – a perfect base
When we chose to make Luz St Sauveur our base for summer activities we did so for two reasons. First, the setting is quite breath-taking. Above the old slate roofs of Luz, the skyline is one of the most dramatic you could hope for. The town is encircled by mountain peaks so high that, even in the heat of the summer, you can still see traces of snow. Secondly, the town is well positioned for all kinds of summer activities. Two rivers meet here, one valley leading to Gavarnie with its famous cirque and footpaths to Spain, the other up the winding Tour de France route to Barèges.

The original farmers ignored the glaciated valley bottom, however, and farmed instead on the hillsides, leaving behind them the charming stone villages and well worn footpaths which help make this area such a pleasure for walkers. If you come to Luz without a car there are plenty of lovely walks to local villages. The GR10 footpath runs past the back of the town for example. If you have a car, or come to join in our guided walks, then you have access to Lourdes, Argelès-Gazost, the lovely old thermal mountain town of Cauterets and many higher mountain routes.

If you want a less active holiday there’s plenty to do just in the town. There are several small bars and restaurants, a big, colourful market on Mondays and a popular open air swimming pool. Ten minutes walk away is the linked village of St Sauveur, where you’ll find the Napoleonic thermal baths. It’s not difficult to imagine rich Edwardian women parading these marble corridors in their long skirts, although now its visitors go wrapped in white towelling robes moving from treatment room to treatment room. The baths are open to the public and you can try any numbers of different ways of taking the waters, from a thermal power shower to an aromatherapy massage in thermal steam..