17 Best Hotels in the South of France

"The lavender-steeped lure of a Provencal holiday takes on a resolutely modern slant at this reinvented five-acre stone hamlet, acquired by the Beaumier Group in 2020, who teamed up with Parisian architects Jaune and created their own hybrid of earthy-meets-minimalist design. The deeply comfortable 17 bedrooms and 19 suites are variations on an artful assemblage of pale woods, whitewashed walls, terracotta and brick, rattan furnishings and clay pottery, all with sweeping vistas of the landscaped cypress-lined gardens and hilly green Lubéron Valley. And you needn’t venture very far. Capelongue has two dreamy pools, three restaurants (a country-style bistro, a café, plus La Bastide, their superb newly-awarded one-Michelin-star gastronomic haunt headed by chef Noël Bérard), but a flashy resort it is not. Everything—from the holistic spa and organic local wines to the fleet of electric bikes and morning yoga classes—is in sync with the stress-busting aura and dressed-down stylishness of nouveau Provence. —Lanie Goodman" - Lanie Goodman, Sarah James