We thoroughly enjoyed our stay at Gilbert's property. It is a hidden treasure. Centrally located, yet quiet house and garden. A Lidl and two restaurants are wothin throwing distance. The pool is fantastic. We already rented many properties around the Mediterranean, but this pool by far was the best. It is huge!!! The property is ideal for people with dogs. There is a fence around the whole garden, so the dogs can run free in the garden. In case you are not used to the heat of Southern France in July: The nights are hot and there is no AC. You will have to use the fans and open the windows. One highlight of Gilbert's house is no doubt the pizza oven, which Gilbert kindly introduced me to. Baking pizza in a proper wood-fired oven is quite something else! We would definitely return if we decide on a holiday in Provence again. Thank you, Gilbert, for having been so helpful and forthcoming.

We enjoyed our stay at Gilbert‘s, especially the pool and the summer kitchen with its pizza oven.

We had a great stay. The pool and poolhouse were great. Kitchen very well equipped ! Good communication with the owner.

Overall property was generally ok. Property was very dated and generally appears not looked after or kept up to date. Many of the installations and connections for example would fail to meet 'Health & Safety' requirements in this country. Many of the sockets are hanging off walls and in fact very dangerous. Owner was pleasant and put himself out to help. What did surprise us though and was a great shame. Half way through holiday we were made aware of a cleaning cost on leaving or option to clean ourselves. We had every intention to leave the property as found but nowhere in 'HomeAway' site is this detailed. It almost felt it was sneakily being added as a subsidy to rental already paid. After arriving at a dated and at best basically cleaned property from outset a surprise request. In fact at one point in stay we had to clear a blocked shower plumbing by removing numerous amount of historic tenant hair, not pleasant. On leaving property a two hour cleanse nevertheless put the property in a better position than when arrived. You can imagine our surprise therefore when the owner claimed not clean enough post our leaving and deducted automatically from deposit left with no further consultation and what appears before we even boarded a plane !! In summary this appears a classic scam to charge a tenant a cleaning cost to subsidise the rental. I don't think owner had any intention not to deduct this from outset. We had no recourse and deposit automatically allowed to be deducted by 'HomeAway'. Not very transparent on their part. A warning to any future potential tenant. A great shame … as I say owner very hospitable and helpful to that point.

"The house was pleasant, the beds were good, the garden is great and the swimming pool is fantastic! The owner is nice and very helpful. We had a very pleasant stay end April/ early May. To be repeated and highly recommended!"

"Very nice and looked after house & pool. Very friendly and helpful owner. Thank you very much Gilbert."

"The house was very spacy, nicely furnished and equipped with everything one needs. The pool was wonderful. The small town of Brignoles is in walking distance, a big supermarket only 5-8 min. away, also some reasonable restaurants. We hope to come back...."

"Super villa, tout près du centre ville, calm, ensoleillé. Un séjour inoubliable. De la place pour tout le monde."