Featured holiday Cookery holiday in Bordeaux France

3 or 4 nights/4 or 5 days
This is a 3- or 4-night holiday with two different cookery classes included held at Le Saint James, a Relais & Chateaux hotel with Michelin starred restaurant located on the outskirts of Bordeaux with its own vineyard. This holiday operates without a minimum number of participants and you join in with classes that the hotel’s cookery school is running on a weekly basis.
Included in your Expressions holiday
  • Accommodation in a deluxe double or twin room on bed and breakfast
  • Scheduled flights with British Airways London to Bordeaux return, economy
  • Private car transfer from Bordeaux airport to the hotel and back
  • Two cookery classes
  • Concierge service and Expressions Holidays regional helpful hints

Luxury cookery short break holiday near Bordeaux

Highlights

• St-James Style cookery lesson • One themed cookery lesson

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I enjoyed every minute of the tour. Cindy-Marie was simply fantastic and her knowledge, kindness and humour was all that I could have asked for. This was a first class experience. Thank you for making it all happen.
Customer on Tuscan wine tour, June 2022

Holiday price guide Sample prices are per person based on two people sharing a double or twin room for 3 nights.

From about

£2,180 three nights

Holiday Code FHFE01

The prices displayed here are a guide only. Each holiday price will be tailor-made at the time of booking to reflect all actual costs including up-to-date special offers.

Luxury cookery short break holiday near Bordeaux

Special offers for this holiday>

I enjoyed every minute of the tour. Cindy-Marie was simply fantastic and her knowledge, kindness and humour was all that I could have asked for. This was a first class experience. Thank you for making it all happen.
Customer on Tuscan wine tour, June 2022

Holiday price guide Sample prices are per person based on two people sharing a double or twin room for 3 nights.

From about

£2,180 three nights

Holiday Code FHFE01

The prices displayed here are a guide only. Each holiday price will be tailor-made at the time of booking to reflect all actual costs including up-to-date special offers.

Our prices include ● Scheduled flights with British Airways London Gatwick to Bordeaux return, economy
● Private car transfer from Bordeaux airport to the hotel and back
● Three nights' bed and breakfast in a deluxe double room at the Saint James
● Saint James Style 3-course cookery lesson
● Themed cookery lesson
● Concierge service and Expressions Holidays regional helpful hints

I enjoyed every minute of the tour. Cindy-Marie was simply fantastic and her knowledge, kindness and humour was all that I could have asked for. This was a first class experience. Thank you for making it all happen.
Customer on Tuscan wine tour, June 2022

Holiday price guide Sample prices are per person based on two people sharing a double or twin room for 3 nights.

From about

£2,180 three nights

Holiday Code FHFE01

The prices displayed here are a guide only. Each holiday price will be tailor-made at the time of booking to reflect all actual costs including up-to-date special offers.

Our prices include • Scheduled flights with British Airways London Gatwick to Bordeaux return, economy
• Private car transfer from Bordeaux airport to the hotel and back
• Three nights' bed and breakfast in a deluxe double room at the Saint James
• Saint James Style 3-course cookery lesson
• Themed cookery lesson
• Concierge service and Expressions Holidays regional helpful hints

The journey and how you get there There are scheduled flights with British Airways from London Gatwick to Bordeaux, daily and perhaps more than once a day depending on the day of the week. Flying time to Bordeaux is 1 h and 35m. At Bordeaux airport you are met by a private transfer and taken to the hotel. The journey time is about 25 minutes. A private car transfer returns you to the airport at the end of your holiday. If you are staying longer than 3 nights, it is worth having the use of a hire-car for independent sight-seeing, in afternoons and on spare days.

Luxury cookery short break holiday near Bordeaux

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I enjoyed every minute of the tour. Cindy-Marie was simply fantastic and her knowledge, kindness and humour was all that I could have asked for. This was a first class experience. Thank you for making it all happen.
Customer on Tuscan wine tour, June 2022

Holiday price guide Sample prices are per person based on two people sharing a double or twin room for 3 nights.

From about

£2,180 three nights

Holiday Code FHFE01

The prices displayed here are a guide only. Each holiday price will be tailor-made at the time of booking to reflect all actual costs including up-to-date special offers.

Our prices include • Scheduled flights with British Airways London Gatwick to Bordeaux return, economy
• Private car transfer from Bordeaux airport to the hotel and back
• Three nights' bed and breakfast in a deluxe double room at the Saint James
• Saint James Style 3-course cookery lesson
• Themed cookery lesson
• Concierge service and Expressions Holidays regional helpful hints

The journey and how you get there There are scheduled flights with British Airways from London Gatwick to Bordeaux, daily and perhaps more than once a day depending on the day of the week. Flying time to Bordeaux is 1 h and 35m. At Bordeaux airport you are met by a private transfer and taken to the hotel. The journey time is about 25 minutes. A private car transfer returns you to the airport at the end of your holiday. If you are staying longer than 3 nights, it is worth having the use of a hire-car for independent sight-seeing, in afternoons and on spare days.

Luxury cookery short break holiday near Bordeaux

Highlights of Bordeaux

Visit vineyards and chateaux, for tasting and buying. Visit the oyster beds. Experience the Cognac distilleries, and the Romanesque architecture. Bordeaux is the historical centre for wine however you may also visit the villages of the wine region such as St Emilion.

Climate in the Bordeaux Region

Average air temperatures in Centigrade: Jan: 10.0, Feb: 9.4, Mar: 12.2, Apr: 19.5, May: 18.0, Jun: 23.7, Jul: 27.2, Aug: 25.7, Sep: 24.2, Oct: 19.7, Nov: 15.4, Dec: 11.0. Source: Direction de la Meteorologique de France

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