Wild and picturesque, there is nowhere quite like the Ile de Ré. Located on the French Atlantic coast and linked with La Rochelle by an impressive 3 km bridge, the island is ideal for sunseekers: the sun shines on the Ile de Ré all year round.

The Ile de Ré is an intimate and friendly place, ideal for family holidays. Its size allows you easily to explore the whole island. The Residence Le Mail Plage, with its swimming pool, is found in the village of La Couarde, half way along the island, just 100m from the fantastic white-sand beach and 50m from the shops.

On the coast and inland there are plenty of activities to keep you entertained and to enable you to explore the island, its nature and its famous salt-beds.

Exhilarating sea fishing, relaxing sea-water health and beauty treatments, pony trekking, not to mention cycling (the favourite means of transport in the island)…all these leisure activities and more will renew your love for nature.