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A family house on the point

Cap Solenne was a fisherman's house when Hélène and Marc Duval found it, with three rooms, a boathouse and a terrace nobody had swept for years.

They opened four rooms in 1987, built the restaurant on the rocks in 1994 and turned the boathouse into a spa in 2016. Their daughter Léa skippers the boat; their son runs the kitchen with Marc.

It is still small on purpose. Twelve rooms means we know every guest by the second morning.

Breakfast on a balcony above the sea

Thirty-eight summers

1987

Four rooms

The first guests arrive. The roof leaks only a little.

1994

La Calanque

The restaurant is built on the rocks below the terrace.

2011

Mistral

A tired 1962 yawl comes home and is restored over three winters.

2016

The spa

The old boathouse becomes two treatment rooms and a steam room.

2022

The villas

Two villas open in the olive grove behind the house.

Who you will meet

Hélène Duval

Hélène Duval

The house

Knows every room, every guest and where the best swim is each morning.

Marc Duval

Marc Duval

The kitchen

At the harbour at seven, at the grill until midnight.

Léa Duval

Léa Duval

The boat

Skipper of Mistral since she was nineteen.

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